What Are the Essentials of the Stroke for A Fast Freestyle Swim?
Freestyle is the fastest of the four basic
swimming styles. As for freestyle, entering the water, arm strokes, breathing and kicking are all very important techniques. Among them, arm stroke is the most problematic action for many beginners. If the stroke is not good, the swimming speed cannot be improved. Today, we will explain some key points of freestyle stroke to help you master freestyle movements better.
First, it is the gesture of the hand against the water. Some people think that it is not necessary for the five fingers to be closed completely firm and stretched straight. When you stroke arms in freestyle, you should try to relax as much as possible, just adjust your hand's contact area with water and make it as large as possible.
Secondly, holding and pushing water with high elbows. High elbow can hold more water, which ensure to push the water with the maximum water front and the water push is quickly moved into the early stage, and ensure that the route and time of pushing the water are the longest, always pushing the water backwards, and there is almost no waste of energy.
In
freestyle, the arm enters the water, stretches forward, grabs the water and holds it, and accelerates the push of water. The key driving force is to accelerate the push of water. The distance of the pushing is not very important, but the key is to accelerate the amount of pushing water. Better fluid propulsion efficiency is achieved by pushing a large amount of water, while the propulsion efficiency is relatively low in the way of relatively long pushing but relatively small amount of water, which is not conducive to lifting speed.
The last step is to move the arm. When you move your arm in
freestyle, you should take the shoulder joint as the axis, drive your upper arm with your lower arm, and move forward with your fingertips across the water. When you practice single-arm stroke, you must pay attention to your arm movement track, and try your best to wipe the outside of your head and move forward without making a big circle.
When moving the arm, it is best not to exert force on the hand. It feels as if the lower arm is pulled forward by the upper arm. If the hand exerts force, it is likely to have a grasping gesture, which is not conducive to the stroke.