Swimming strokes

• Freestyle

  • Common term for FRONT CRAWL
  • Fastest way to swim
• Backstroke

  • Most relaxing stroke of all to swim
  • Reverse of freestyle
• Breaststroke

  • Oldest swimming stroke
  • Most popular and common way to swim
• Butterfly 

  • Most recent innovation 
  • Hardest way to swim
• Breaststroke

  • Oldest swimming stroke
  • Most popular and common way to swim
• • Flutter
  • Alternative vertical kick
  • Applied to FREESTYLE and BACKSTROKE
• Frog 

  • Applied to BREASTSTROKE
• Dolphin

  • Applied to BUTTERFLY 
• Catch

  • movement when the hand starts to exert pressure on the water during an arm stroke
• Stroke

  • method of propulsion thru the water
• Warm – up exercises

  • practices and “loosing” up sessions a swimmer does before swimming
• Drill 

  • practice exercise to improve specific aspects of techniques
• Oxygen Deficit

  • a temporary shortage of oxygen in the body created by exertion
• Kicking

  • training drill which only the legs are used.
• Pulling

  • training drill in which only the arms are used. 
• Streamline

  • fully extended position, with both arms stretched above your head, biceps pressed behind your ears, hands on top of each other with your back straight, and when in the water toes pointed. 
• Breathing

  • Moving air into and out of the lungs
• Gliding

  • Steamline, arrow like position as the body moves with no leg action
• Crawl

  • Stroke which is used in freestyle racing
• Kick

  • Part of a stroke performed by legs and feet
• Pull

  • Part of stroke performed by arms
• Sculling

  • Small inwards and outwards movement wth the hands and arms