Breaststroke Clinic

BREASTSTROKE KICK

 

--> Steps

       1. Heels come up to butt - **remember to keep knees together**

       2. Feet turn out, flex

       3. Kick out, around, and together - keeping knees as close as possible

       4. Finish kick-- legs together, toes pointed, squeeze butt, legs come up toward surface

       5. Glide

 

--> Drills

       1. Egg Beater

 

 

BREASTSTROKE PULL

 

--> Steps

       1. Start in streamline

       2. Pull around & together, keeping elbows in front of you - body should come out of the water to breath - **remember to keep head in line**

       3. Dive forward into streamline

--> Drills

       1. Scull - out in front OR below chest keeping elbows up

       2. Breaststroke pull with butterfly kick - remember to keep head in line

BREASTSTROKE TIMING

--> Steps

       1. Pull 

       2. Kick

       3. Glide

--> Drills

       1. two pulls with butterfly kick, one pull with breaststroke kick

       2. one pull, two kicks