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Swimming Tutorial 8

The document discusses three swimming strokes - breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle. It provides the rules for breaststroke, which include keeping the chest up while taking arm strokes and leg kicks simultaneously. The rules for butterfly specify when the hands and feet must be above or below the water. Freestyle allows the most freedom but front crawl is most commonly used, involving alternating arm strokes and flutter or whip kicks.

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Swimming Tutorial 8

The document discusses three swimming strokes - breaststroke, butterfly, and freestyle. It provides the rules for breaststroke, which include keeping the chest up while taking arm strokes and leg kicks simultaneously. The rules for butterfly specify when the hands and feet must be above or below the water. Freestyle allows the most freedom but front crawl is most commonly used, involving alternating arm strokes and flutter or whip kicks.

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Swimming

this stroke. The relatively smaller arm stroke puts less pressure on swimmers and makes
this stroke ideal for long distance swimming.

Rules
 They should start the race by swimming on their breast.

 They should separate their hands and take an arm stroke at the start of the race.

 They should take a leg kick after an arm stroke. An arm stroke and a leg kick
together make a stroke cycle.

 At any point during the race, they cannot turn on their back.

 They should move their hands simultaneously.

 They should keep their hands at the same horizontal level.

 While pushing water from the breast, their hands can stay on, under or over the
water surface.

 Their elbow should always remain in water. However, it can stay above the water
surface at the final stroke before a turn, during the turn or at the end of the race.

 They can bring back their hands on or under the surface of water.

 They cannot bring back their hands beyond the hip line, except during the first
stroke and each turn.

 They should turn their feet outwards during the propulsive part of the kick.

 They can break the surface of water with their feet, but they cannot take a
downward butterfly kick immediately after that.

 At each turn and at the completion of the race, swimmers should touch the wall
with both their hands simultaneously above or below the water level.

 They can submerge their head after the last arm pull just before the touch, but
they should break the water surface at some point during the last complete or
incomplete cycle preceding the touch.

Free Style
In free style races, very few restrictions are placed on the swimmer. The swimmer can
choose to swim in any style. However, front crawl and free style have become synonymous
as almost all swimmers across the world use front crawl in free style competitions. In this
style, swimmers move their arms alternatively forward, pulling water backwards.

They flutter-kick their feet simultaneously. They move one of their arms in a semi circular
motion in vertical plane while they catch water with the other arm and push it backwards.
They might also choose to whip kick their feet. This variant is called the Trudgen.

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