Swimming Freestyle smooth. Learn how to swim easy graceful front crawl..

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• published: 25 Feb 2017
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Knowing how to swim smooth freestyle is essential for lap swimmers, triathletes, open water swimmers, waterpolo players, crossfit athletes and basically anyone wanting to swim as a workout. The first thing to note is the position of the body. The more horizontal your body is, the easier it will be to swim though the water without a lot of resistance. The main issue people have is that their legs sink. To compensate they start kicking faster, then they get tired and their legs sink. The next thing to master is to reduce excess drag. Advanced swimmers actually use very little energy to go forward while swimming smooth freestyle. This is because they have reduced the drag of their bodies as much as possible. One big part of it is the legs. Try to avoid bending your knees too much. For smooth freestyle doing a few narrow kicks, maybe one or two per stroke, should be enough to keep your legs a float. Finally point your ankles in plantar flexion, this will reduce your drag a substantial amount and will help you swim smoothly. If you want to take your smooth freestyle to the next level, work on your core. It will give you stabilization for a better horizontal position. Work also one your flexibility. This will give you a better range of motion and reduce drag. If you don’t want to miss any of our videos pick the social media you use the most and follow us there! If you want our lessons in one picture follow us on pinterest. https://es.pinterest.com/skillsnt/ If you want to laugh with our memes follow us on instagram. https://www.instagram.com/skillsntalents If you use twitter or facebook we are there too! https://www.facebook.com/SkillsNTalents/ https://twitter.com/SkillsNTalent Check our beautiful swimming website! skillswimming.com If you enjoy this channel and you want to help us keep doing more, check out our patreon page where you can find more personalized training! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4140610 Thanks for watching! Swim smooth! These tips and techniques will work best to help you improve dramatically your stroke if you do two things: 1- Focus on one thing at a time 2- Practice until you dominate that thing and move to the next. I will also do another series of videos for the other strokes, including starts and turns. There will also be drills and other fun stuff, so make sure to subscribe! I swam for 15 years in the competitive arena and I hope I can transmit my knowledge as clearly and simple as youtube allows me to. I plan on doing a couple of these to spread the knowledge I have acquired on swimming. I will do collaborations with people with even more knowledge and experience to do more advanced type videos. Finally, what I am really passionate about is learning new skills. So the point of this channel is to spread the intrinsic joy that all humans share when we learn something new, doesn't matter how insignificant it might appear. I believe improvement makes us feel more alive and thus, if done right, make a better world. So if you enjoy learning new things, swimming, dancing, drawing and other skills this channel is for you! So make sure to subscribe, watch, learn, practice and enjoy!