Freestyle Breaststroke Backstroke Butterfly
Freestyle
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| Freestyle is the easiest, most popular, and the stroke most people learn first. To do freestyle you begin on your stomach. You have to rotate your arms backwards and around. You keep your head low and rotate your hips. When you need breathe you rotate your head to the side with only half of your face out of the water. Most people breathe every three strokes. |
Breaststroke
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| Breaststroke is a great stroke. It is my favorite stroke. A lot of people like it because it is fun to do. To do this stroke you bend your elbows and bring them to your side. Then you shoot them out to the front and repeat. Your legs are kicking out to the side then back together. Your feet are turned out. If you walk like that it will feel and look like a duck. When you start learning it some coaches will make you walk around the pool like that. You start kicking when your arms are in and about to push out. | |
Backstroke
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| Backstroke is an easy, but hard stroke. It requires a lot of fast kicking. When doing backstroke you lay on your back while doing a fast freestyle kick. You rotate your arms backwards in a windmill kind of motion. When your arms first go up your thumbs are down, but switch and your pinky enters the water first. Your head is back and your chin high so you don't sit in the water. |
Butterfly
| Butterfly is the hardest stroke. It is also my least favorite. It requires your legs to go up and down like a dolphin kick. Your arms are going back, then forward, then down through the water, and repeat. Your head is down and most people breathe every two strokes or every other stroke. |
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