This page explain the 4 standard competitive swimming strokes namely Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke and Butterfly.
In the seventies, almost each new town has its own swimming facilities. Opened in January 1970, the Queenstown Swimming Complex was the first public pool built in a housing estate in Singapore. Designed with a 4m-deep diving pool as well as an Olympic-sized competition pool, Queenstown Swimming Complex was the training ground of the famous water polo…
An Essential Swim Lesson Plan is what molded every successful swimmers in their learn to swim career and well managing the student’s progress. Beside having a lesson plan, the proper equipment could help facilitate learner to learn easier and progress faster. There was a saying “You need to have an equipment to do your job…
Butterfly Swimming- One of best exercise in Swimming. Watch on!! Butterfly Swimming being the second fastest among the 4 strokes is also the most graceful strokes among them. The technique of swimming butterfly is important to prevent shoulder injury which is often the most common problem faced in Butterfly Swimming. Below are some of the…
Backstroke is the 3rd fastest stroke after Butterfly. The arm and the leg action are similar to Freestyle swimming except that this is done on the back. Backstroke is the 3rd fastest stroke among the 4 strokes namely Freestyle, Butterfly, Backstroke and Breaststroke by the order of swimming speed. Let’s look into the 5 most…
Breaststroke is one of the slower stroke among the 4 strokes namely Freestyle, Butterfly, Backstroke and Breaststroke by the order of swimming speed. The slowness was due to a ” pause” within the stroke in which it exhibit during the recovery. That recovery causing the stroke to slow down as a result. Let’s look into…
Freestyle (Front Crawl) was the fastest among all the other strokes. In the recent Tokyo Olympic 2020, the top swim speed was recorded at 1.78m/s by Dressel from USA. Let’s look at the 5 most common mistakes of Freestyle Swimming. Freestyle Mistake #1- Improper Kicking The flutter kicking of freestyle contribute to forward propulsion if…
