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Swim Like a Fish: Mastering Freestyle — PE

Swim Like a Fish: Mastering Freestyle

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Companion summary

Have you ever watched a swimmer glide through the water like a fish, barely making a splash? Freestyle is the fastest stroke used in Olympic races and open-water rescues around the world. Your arms pull in an alternating windmill rhythm while your legs do a steady, shallow flutter kick beneath the surface. When you finish practising your arm pull, try counting how many strokes it takes you to cross the pool.

What Makes a Swimmer Fast?

Think about watching a swimming race. Some swimmers glide through the water smoothly and quickly. Others splash a lot and seem to fight the water. What do you think makes the difference? The secret is learning the right skills — and that is exactly what freestyle swimming teaches you. Freestyle is the fastest and most popular swimming stroke in the world. It is sometimes called front crawl because you move forward on your front.

💭 Think about this

If you were a fish, how would you move through water — wriggling your whole body, kicking your legs, or using your arms? Why?

What Makes a Swimmer Fast?

💭 Think about this

If you were a fish, how would you move through water — wriggling your whole body, kicking your legs, or using your arms? Why?

The Four Key Skills of Freestyle

has four skills that work together. When you practise each one and then combine them, you will swim smoothly and quickly. **1. Body Position** Lie as flat and straight as possible on the surface of the water, face down. Keep your body — that means level from head to toe, like a plank. If your hips and legs sink down, you create , which slows you down. Drag is the resistance the water pushes back against you. Look slightly down at the pool floor, not straight ahead, to keep your head in line with your body. **2. Arm Action** Your arms do the main work of pulling you forward. One arm reaches forward and enters the water fingertips first. Then it pulls back under your body in a curved sweep, like an 'S' shape, past your hip. At the same time, your other arm lifts out of the water and swings forward through the air — this is called the recovery. Your arms work in a continuous alternating rhythm: one pulls under the water while the other recovers above it. **3. Leg Kick** Your legs kick in a . Keep your legs straight but relaxed, close together, and kick up and down in small, quick movements. The kick starts from your hip, not your knee. Bending your knees too much wastes energy. The flutter kick keeps your legs up and helps you move forward. **4. Breathing** Breathing is one of the trickiest parts. Every few strokes, (turn) your head to one side — just enough for your mouth to clear the water. Take a quick breath in. Then turn your face back down into the water and breathe out slowly through your nose or mouth while your face is underwater. Breathing out underwater stops water going up your nose and helps you stay relaxed.

Worked example

Imagine you are swimming one length of freestyle. You push off the wall and stretch your body out flat — horizontal. Your right arm reaches forward and enters the water fingertips first, then sweeps back under you in a curve past your hip. At the same moment, your left arm swings forward through the air (recovery). Your legs are doing a steady flutter kick from the hips. After two arm pulls, you rotate your head to the right — just your mouth comes out of the water — you breathe in quickly, then turn your face back down and breathe out slowly through your nose. Then the cycle repeats. Everything works together in a smooth rhythm.

Check Your Freestyle Knowledge

Try it yourself

Read each question carefully and choose the best answer. Think about what you have just learned about freestyle swimming.

1. What is the best body position for freestyle swimming?

2. In the freestyle arm action, what is the 'recovery'?

3. Where should the freestyle flutter kick start from?

4. When you breathe during freestyle, what should you do while your face is back in the water?

5. Why does sinking hips and legs slow you down in freestyle?

Pulling It All Together

Keep your body flat and horizontal to reduce drag.
Your arms pull underwater in a curve and recover through the air in a continuous rhythm.
Breathe in quickly when you rotate your head, then breathe out slowly underwater.

1. A swimmer keeps bending their knees a lot during the flutter kick. What problem will this cause?

🌱 Reflect

Which of the four freestyle skills — body position, arm action, flutter kick, or breathing — do you think would be trickiest for you to get right? Why?

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