Swimming

• • ______ feels so natural, but once you’re in the water focusing on your stroke, technique, and pace, it doesn’t come as easily.
  • It takes practice and patience to get the timing and body alignment of ______ down.
  • Once ______ becomes more comfortable and consistent, you'll be able to swim more effortlessly, efficiently, and effectively.

  Breathing
• • _______ is a skill, and you can be good at it if you put forth the effort and determination to learn it.
  • Humans naturally _____ in water, at least to some degree since the human lungs are filled with air.
  • ________ is the first skill that every swimmer should learn.
  • The goal in learning this skill is to move your body from a vertical position to a horizontal position.

  Floating
• It is a movement of the legs in swimming.

  Swimming Kick
• • It is a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or exercises
  • "The kick must be synchronized with the arm movements."

  Kicking, kick
• This kick is used for freestyle, wherein in the legs are extended straight back and moved up and down alternately with a slight knee bend on the upward movement.

  Flutter Kick
• This kick is used for (breaststroke), the legs are drawn up toward the body and spread outward at the knees with the feet together and then extended or straightened out with the legs apart and then brought together again with a snap.

  Frog Kick
• This kick is used for butterfly stroke, involving the up and down movement of the legs and lower trunk together with the knees bent in the upswing.

  Dolphin Kick
• This is the most popular stroke and the easiest for beginners to learn.

  Freestyle
• It is a simple flutter kick and windmill arm in motion, like the backstroke, only on your belly. The most difficult part is coordinating the breathing since your face is in the water most of the time.

  Freestyle
• Freestyle: The ___________

  • It's a flutter kick where the legs kick in an alternating order.
  • Bend the knees slightly
  • Relax the feet and ankles (the should be almost floppy)
  • Emphasize the down-kick for propulsion.


  Leg kick (free style)
• Similar to the freestyle in that you can use an alternate windmill arm stroke and flutter kick.

  Backstroke
• Two keys to a proper backstroke are that your arms move with equal strength, otherwise you will swim off to one side, and that your body rolls from side to side so taht your arms catch enough water to propel your forward.

  Backstroke
• It is a flutter kick where the legs kick in an alternating order.


  Leg kick (Backstroke)
• ______ involves exquisite timing, and in fact, you can be disqualified from competition of you miss even one stroke.

  Breasktroke
• This is a difficult stroke and no one to choose if you're just learning how to swim. The basics are that your arms pull, you breathe, kick (arms alternate with the kick), and you glide. 


  Breaststroke
• • Bring the knees to chest
  • Thrust the legs backward and straight
  • Snap the legs together to push the water and propel you forward (frog-kick)


  Leg kick (Breaststroke)
• Like the breastroke, this is a difficult stroke and not recommended for beginners.


  Butterfly
• During the stroke, the legs move together in a dolphin kick (imagine a mermaid), the arms move together to push the water and downward and backward, and the torso undulates...

  Butterfly
• • Bend the knees slightly, and keep then together.
  • Make a downward thrust by striaghtening the knees and whooping feet downward.
  • There should be two kicks for everyone )

  Leg kick (butterfly)