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Simply Swim have created four excellent videos to help you perfect your swimming technique. So whether you wish to learn the basics of back stroke, breast stroke or front crawl this is the place to look.

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Front Crawl

Breast Stroke

Back Stroke

Tumble Turn

Perfect Front Crawl



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This video covers:

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

Perfect Breast Stroke

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This video covers:

Perfect body postition - where you should be in the water.
Head position - the perfect height for your head to be at whilst swimming breast stroke.
What to do with your legs - the do's and don'ts when it comes to kicking whilst doing breast stroke.

Perfect Back Stroke

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This video covers:

Arm position - how your hands should enter the water, the right and the wrong way.
Perfect body position - 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.

Perfect Tumble Turn

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This video covers:

Tumble Turns- how it should look on and under the water

Have you got your own learn to swim video? Or perhaps just one of your local swim club?

If you have your own video that is about learning to swim, swimming techniques or just messing about in the pool let us know and we might be able to host it for you here. We are more than happy to share anything that could be useful to other swimmers.
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