Basic pool technique for beginners

Swimming is a fun sport as well as very beneficial for the health of the body and fosters the nature of courage, discipline and confidence. The swimming contest consists of freestyle, back, butterfly, and also style / combination of all four styles. Swimming is a sport done in the water.

There are four styles that can be done in sports pool, including a swim style, namely freestyle, chest style, backstroke, and butterfly style.

Here are some basic techniques in swimming:

• Respiratory

One of the successes in swimming we can regulate the breath well. First stand on the edge of the pond with low and keep your face on the water surface. Inhale through the mouth for a while and then enter your head into the water and exhale through your nose.

• Glide

Glide is a movement of the body horizontally below the water surface. First come down in a shallow pool and back to the pool wall. Paste one of your feet (right or left) on the pool wall with your toes facing downwards as a repulsion to slide. Push the body through the footwork and glide as far as possible with the arms parallel to the front. Head cultivated into the water so that the ear parallel to the arm.

• Floating / Floating

Floating or floating is a movement of the body floating below the surface of water and head above the water surface with the encouragement of hands and feet as a counterweight. Floating or floating there are 2 kinds of floating supine and floating vertical perpendicular.

- Floating On

Floating supine is done by pulling back until the ear is submerged in water. Stretch both hands in a right-angled shape. The wrist remains straight and relaxes. Press the palm of the hand simultaneously or alternately down to keep the body floating on the surface of the water. For leg movements the shape resembles the letter "V" with the same movements as hand gestures.

- Floating Upright Straight Vertically

Floating perpendicular vertically most commonly used is the body movement with the body position perpendicular to the bottom of the water surface and the head remains on the surface of the water to the chin, while for the movement of the hands and feet moved to balance to keep the body floating on the surface of the water. For hand movement is almost the same with floating motion supine that is stretching both hands by forming elbow, wrist keep straight and relax.

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