crawl swimming technique

Crawl (from the English word “crawl” – “crawl”) crawl is the fastest type of swimming, a style of swimming on the chest, during which the swimmer makes wide strokes along the body alternately with his right and left hands, and at the same time constantly performs kicks in a vertical plane (along how scissors work). The athlete’s face is almost constantly in the water; periodically, during one of the strokes, he turns his head to the side, lifting his face out of the water in order to take a breath.

Swimming crawl allows you to develop the highest speed. It is always used in competition when the rules allow freestyle swimming.

In the Olympic program, freestyle is given 13 numbers: distances of 50, 100, 200, 400 m and 4 x 100 m relay for women and men, 800 m for women, 1500 m and 4 x 200 m relay for men. The crawl is used in the last stages of combined relay races and medley distances.

The crawl swimming technique is a method of swimming on the chest or back and has corresponding subspecies. When swimming in a crawl on the chest, the arms make alternate strokes, and the legs move and move apart rhythmically. If greatly simplified, then the hands will look like an impeller (or rather, its spokes) of a steamboat or the wings of a mill, and the legs will look like scissors.

Almost the same thing happens when swimming crawl on the back – the same mahi-strokes with the hands and “scissors” with the legs. The only difference: when swimming on the chest, the direction of movement of the hands is because of the head under oneself, when swimming on the back, the hands go in the opposite direction, since the swimmer lies on his back.

Breathing while crawling
Inhalation should be done through the mouth, turning the head towards the arm under water. A breath is taken at the very beginning of the swing, when a “triangle” appears: the shoulder, the water’s edge, the forearm, because at this moment the water around the head partes a little. You need to exhale through the mouth until the next breath.

The rules prescribe to take a breath for every third wave of the hand above the water. In this case, the breaths will alternate on the right and left.