FUNdamental Swimming

It's time for 50m Backstroke. Did you know in the Backstroke Turn you can turn onto your stomach for the last stroke before somersaulting. But make sure it's only one stroke! 🤸‍♀🏊🐟

Crawl kicking on the side helps swimmers with learning how to continue to kick whilst breathing with the ear on the arm. For an added challenge, swimmers can bend the elbow (like a shark fin) which makes them work harder to stay afloat.

Here we are teaching rotation with a still head. If the head moves then the body wiggles, so we rotate along a long axis with a still head. You can do this on the tummy for crawl or on the back for backstroke.

Here are cool ways to warm up before swimming butterfly. Get the muscles warm, plot the correct movements and start developing the timing.

Freestyle or Crawl?! When we refer to the stroke, it's Crawl but when it's an event in a competition it's called Freestyle and theoretically you can do ANY stroke you want for a Freestyle event (but people usually do Crawl cos it's the fastest stroke)

Have you ever tried swimming on a tower of boards! These swimmers show us how it's done!

FUN ways to learn Breaststroke on land. 🐸🐸🐸
1) partner breaststroke and touch your partners hand in the glide
2) scoop shoot inside a noodle
3) stand against a wall: scoop the water and shoot the arms forward into the glide

FAST ARMS! Did you know that Backstroke needs fast arms. Here our FUNdamental Coach is swinging a noodle above the swimmers' head to speed the arms up.

Getting back into the groove of the term with some lovely warm ups. We have groups from beginners learning to stroke right through to more advanced swimmers in prep school. Our high school swimmers and adults get their daily fix in our fitness groups.