What are the key points of swimming movements?

When summer comes, many people will choose to go to the swimming pool to swim, and breaststroke is the simplest type of swimming. For male friends, if we learn to swim, even if we cannot save others, we can save ourselves at the critical moment. Only by mastering the essentials of swimming skills for beginners can we learn to swim faster. The following editor will introduce to you the essentials of breaststroke movements.

breaststroke

There is a jingle for the coordination of breaststroke. I would like to introduce it to you before explaining the essentials of breaststroke movements: "Paddle with your arms without moving your legs, retract your arms and then your legs, extend your arms first and then your legs, keep your arms together and straight, and float for a while." From the jingle, you can see that the hand movement precedes the leg movement. Be sure to retract your legs after retracting your hands, and extend your hands before kicking your legs.

Arm movements

1. Outward stroke. Stretch your arms forward with your palms tilted about 45 degrees (pinky fingers facing up). Simultaneously, move both hands outward and backward, then bend your arms and move them backward and downward.

2. Inner line. The palm turns from outside to inside, and the hand drives the forearm to accelerate the inward stroke. The hand moves from bottom to top and is placed together in front of the chest (hand is high and elbow is low, elbow is below the shoulder), and then extends forward.

3. Stretch forward. Extend your arms forward (elbows straight).

We should remind everyone that the outward stroke is relaxed, the inward stroke is done with force and acceleration, and the forward extension is active.

The complete coordination movements of breaststroke: raise your head to breathe when your hands are moving outward, pull your legs in and lower your head to hold your breath when your hands are moving inward, and kick your legs and exhale when your hands are extended forward over your head.

Leg movements

1. Pull in your legs: bend your knees and pull in your legs, bring your heels closer to your buttocks, and tuck your calves behind your thighs and pull in your legs slowly to reduce resistance. At the end of the leg retraction, the knees are shoulder-width apart, the calves are perpendicular to the water surface, and the feet are near the water surface.

2. Turn over your feet: The distance between your feet should be greater than that between your knees. Your feet should be turned outward, with your toes facing outward and your heels facing the sky. Your calves and the inner sides of your feet should be facing the water, like the English letter "w".

3. Kicking the water: It is actually the process of straightening the legs (flexing the hip and extending the knees), with the waist, abdomen and thighs exerting force at the same time, using the calves and inner sides of the feet to kick and clamp the water at the same time, first outwards, backwards, and downwards, and then inwards and upwards, like drawing a half circle. Pushing the water outwards and squeezing the water inwards are completed continuously, that is, pushing and squeezing together. When the kick and catch are completed, the legs are straightened and brought together, the feet are turned inward, and the toes are facing each other. Don't kick the water too fast. Instead, accelerate from slow to fast. The speed of kicking water is the fastest when your legs are almost straight and close together.

4. Stop: Straighten your legs together and then slide for a short time (1-2 seconds).

Swimming is a very good sport. Regular swimming has many benefits. You should choose well-fitting swimming trunks when swimming. If the swimming trunks do not fit well, it is easy to hold water when swimming, which will increase the weight and resistance of the body and affect the swimming movements. Therefore, the swimming trunks should feel comfortable when worn.