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Swim Tips and Tutorials for Better Technique
Flutter kick
Renata Martinez, July 2013
For more efficient freestyle kicking keep your legs straight, toes pointed and focus on small kicks. Avoid bending knees, flexed feet and big kicks. Keep your feet close to the surface but don't break the edge of the water, different words, do not splash. Kicking to low under the water will make you tired and it will also slow you down. Good luck!
DRILLS:
1, Use a kickboard, focus on pointed toes and straight legs.
2, Use fins, arms in streamline, focus on shallow small kicks.
3, Use a kickboard, 4 deep kicks followed with 4 shallow kicks.
Streamline
Renata Martinez, July 2013
Streamline body position is important part of swimming. Head is in line with body, nose pointed to the bottom of the pool, chin on your chest and head is still. Arms reaching forward squeezing head, hands folded and thumb locked. Legs stratched behind and relaxed. Hips and back on the top of the water. Good luck!
DRILLS:
1, Stand ond deck, put your arms up and perform this position while standing on deck.
2, Stand in shallow end and perform this position while standing in the water.
3, Push of the wall and perform this position on your stomach/ back in the water.
How to pick your new swimming goggles
Renata Martinez, August 2013
This month I decided to turn my attention to your swim gear. I am always asked about new swimming goggles. What is the secrete of getting the best kind for your needs. How to pick the ones you will love? Do not go too cheap but do not pay too much unless you are about to win the gold at Olympics. Good luck!
TIPS:
1, Make sure that your new goggles have the option to change the size of the nose part. They will either have more peices (usualy 3, small, medium, large size) or little cuts in one piece. Not everyone has the same size of nose.
2, Two strings wraped around your head are always better than one. They hold better and don't slip so easily.
3, Do not pick goggles with the foam around the eye part, silicon better sticks with the skin and lasts longer.
4, Lastly, do not touch the inside part of the eye. The goggles have protection filter inside and once you touch it they will be getting fogy.
5, Pick the color you like and you are ready.
Breathing in Swimming
Renata Martinez, November 2013
Breathing is one of the essential skills in swimming that is very often underestimated. If you can't breath while swimming, you can't swim very far which means your life can be in danger if the situation comes up and you have to keep swimming. The biggist mistakes that swimmiers beginners do is holding the breath. Rulle number 1 is BREATH! Breathing in the water is different from regular breathing. You actually have to push the air out. Practice breathing in the shallow end first with your mouth, then with your nose. Once you master mouth and nose breathing, try to breath out with your mouth and nose together. Just make sure when you breath in, you open your mouth wide.
Good luck!
TIPS Overview:
1, DON'T hold your breath!
2, Push the air out of your lungs into the water. The bubbles coming out indicates that you are breathing.
3, Breath in with open mouth.
4, Breath out with your mouth, nose and combined in the shallow end.
My name is Renata Martinez and I am the Owner and the Head Instructor of LA Swim - Private Lessons. In this video I will perform all 4 swimming strokes in a basic form. I believe you will enjoy this video and I hope it will help you to improve and better understand your strokes.