Perfect Front Crawl from Simply Swim

Hints and tips on how to make your front crawl perfect. Perfect body postition - where you should be in the water. Head position - the perfect height for your head to be at whilst swimming front crawl. Hand entry - how your hands should enter the water, the right and the wrong way. What it looks like when you have mastered it - a full on blast to the finish

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[durban12]

All sounded great until the washing machine at the end

[ChromeXk]

wow that last swim was a bit crappy, whats with all the splashing?  Fair enough in a competition but for demonstration purposes? not good.

[Nicole14510]

@RonixCorp It is true

[Meowws]

that is what you get when you put a cockroach and a fat pudding pie together. you get shit!

[RonixCorp]

"Entering the water with your fingers open reduces your speed dramatically".

is this really true? because i have those gloves that get you in the habbit of keeping your fingers open ALL the time.

[RonixCorp]

there are no such things as being too rich, too thin, or too high in the water.

[Blooberry95]

Now I know why I keep failing at front crawl: My swimming instructor keeps telling me to put thumbs in first. I think I should go to a different swimming pool ._.

[crudburger]

crap music

[element509]

@simplyhike Also when the arm is coming around it needs to be closer to the body, like the example shown it just wastes a significant amount of energy. And the example is also still pretty low in the water. Try and press the CHEST, not the head, the chest down on the water and that will bring your legs up. The higher you are in the water the more effortlessley you glide through the water. Just like those body suits that were banned from competition, they made you really high in the water

[element509]

@simplyhike Then on the catch. Well there is no catch, the forearm needs to be to where the hand is pointing at the bottem of the pool. That was not done which causes slip on the water and a useless stroke. Also the arm moved out from the body way too much, then you lose all the grip on the water, to avoid that try to have the arm enter straight with the shoulder, then it could go out a little bit, but then needs to come in with the midline of the body.

[element509]

@simplyhike I watched the other video and there is still quite some error. Starting with the head positioning. From the example I saw in the video the head was too high. You just need to be looking down at the bottem of the pool without pressing your head into the water. The arms were all wrong. The arm was entering well past the midline on the inside. It needs to enter straight with the shoulder. Then when the other arm reaches the ear, rotate from the hips.

[simplyhike]

@element509 Hi there, not disagreeing with your comments, this is why we recently re-did this video. Please see the video mentioned in the annotation that runs throughout the whole video. I would be interested to know your thoughts.