How To Swim Freestyle With Perfect Technique

A step by step guide to improve your freestyle technique!

Freestyle is the most popular swimming stroke in the world, and is an essential skill that all swimmers should focus on. We truly believe that every swimmer has at least one part of their freestyle stroke that can be improved!

0:00 Introduction
0:30 Body Position
2:30 The Catch
4:13 Rotation
5:09 Breathing
6:28 Kicking
7:55 Silent Swimming

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[cal]

Swimming is my bliss. Your videos have helped me improve. I swim for the joy of the movement. I'm 72 years old.

[caiorezende]

Just restart swimming this last week and I am already in love with the sport. You can do it to

[svetcovladich]

Wow... I am a beginner at freestyle, but this is the best and most complete breakdown of swimming that I have ever seen! Kudos! A great teacher making good use of video and all his visual aids! 10/10

[rosemarynicolls]

"Smell the aroma of the chlorine"


Me: Tries to smell water
Also Me: Drowns

[GoddessOfPumpkin]

My swimming instructors used to say "pretend that you have an apple or an orange under your chin". That really helped keeping my head in place😂😅

[hz]

"Don't drink the water, that's not what I'm telling you" lol

[eunicegick]

Such a great video!!! I have been swimming for 58 years! That's right 58 years. Now I have to modify my strokes, but everything that was shared was excellent. I always try to swim silently. Just gliding in the water. Swimming is the very BEST exercise and can be done your entire life!!! Thank you so much!!!

[centurionmcjk]

Whoever this guy coaches is the luckiest swimmer alive

[MLoVideos]

OMG the BEST swimming explanation!! I LOVE IT!! Thanks for this information!!!

[FaresKsebati]

Check out this video for more freestyle drills and tips!

[lizleitner]

My favorite stroke is freestyle! I found swimming after being a runner for years and had arthroscopic hip surgery for a torn labrum. Swimming helped me so much during recovery and I fell in love with the my time in the pool!

[jemmawingate]

Just started swimming again. In love with it again! Helping my back and knee surgery recovery 🧜🏼‍♀️

[justthomas]

I’m a 16yr competitive swimmer, and thank you for this video, my weakest part in freestyle is always off the walls and breath the first stroke.

[salemr]

I'm not comfortable with freestyle and am trying to improve, thank you! These types of videos are very helpful!

[leejasonj.]

What a brilliant teacher. I just came back from the pool, and this video made me want to go back now.

[pedrooliveros]

When you reach, the trunk rotation will passively (keep the contralateral arm quiet) put the contra elbow in an elevated position, and the forearm will drop perpendicularly, setting up the EVF. Then pull/adduct (to the trunk) the elbow until the forearm is perpendicular to the trunk (using the whole arm surface to pull) before completing the stroke. see 4.05 to 4.08

[columbusrede]

05:01 "..all about from your core...", great one here!!!
06:44 "kicks drive your rotation...", my god, another great one !!!

[kaimac]

I haven't been swimming for over 10 years now so I'm watching all these how to swim videos before I get back into it. I just hope I haven't forgotten how to stay afloat tbh 😂😂. Freestyle was my favourite swim stroke.

[marybethleib]

This was a really great tutorial! I want to get back to swimming laps but the breathing part/ rhythm has been confounding me! This was SO helpful. It’s not just one element. It’s being conscious of all of it and not fighting the water.

[Jenesis]

I am a free style beginner. Every day in the pool I drill for body position, rotation, catch, and breathing. I pay attention to my muscle tenseness, listen for noise, and manage fear. There is so much to get into subconscious and to make everything work together. Only recently I become patient with practice drills. Even though I can manage to swim free style without aides, I’d better spend time and energy doing drills until all your points become a part of me.