1940s stock footage - learn to swim 2

whether you are interested in swimming Just For Fun For Speed or for distance you must practice if you want to dive that takes practice too if you work hard enough at it you may even be able to dive like this The Beginner's stroke is just a start to swim like this you must learn better strokes and practice them constantly you may not want to be a champion like this girl but you should try to master one or two strokes that will help you enjoy the water to the utmost all swimming is based on only three kinds of arm strokes and three kinds of leg strokes and here they are first the flutter kick legs thrashing from the hips in a loose flexible up and down motion The Body Rolls slightly from side to side the scissors a stroke but with lots of power in its slashing Drive the knees are drawn up then the legs are spread and driven back against the water with full power applied you can't see it all from this angle but from the rear you can see how wi is driving this stroke has two names breast stroke kick or frog kick here again as in the scissors the legs are drawn spread and press backward against the water now for the arm Strokes hand over hand first used in the crawl and the trudon notice how the arms follow each other entering the water cleanly pulling down under the body and lifting out to get back to position the side stroke the forward arm pulls then passes the stroke along to the rear arm and returns to gliding positions the rear arm pulls then slides back just onto the surface the breast stroke is an old favorite the wide sweep of the arms gives plenty of driving force notice that the arms start to bend for Recovery when the pull reaches shoulder level a good way to practice leg Strokes is on the kickboard a 3-ft length of plank the board supports the arms and upper body concentrate on refining and strength these Strokes are the foundation of good swimming and must be practiced over and over again until they are strong remember that all styles of swimming are combinations of these basic Strokes the combinations first the elementary back stroke just a Step Beyond the beginner is no problem this is the easiest stroke to learn as it is only a back float with paired arm and leg Strokes added if the arms are stretched Beyond The Head and the stroke of arms and legs alternated you are swimming an inverted breast stroke turn over on the front shorten the arm stroke a bit and you're swimming the breast stroke the breast stroke begins and ends with ar notice how slowly the swimmer stroke in this stroke buoyancy is good and practically all effort moving through the water watch this Olympic champion holder of many world's records in the breast stroke every movement designed to push her even to the toes pull kick head stroke is popular for it's a of alterate arm stroke and the Scissor on the front it's the crawl hand over hand combined with a flutter as in the back crawl but with breathing added one breath in every complete stroke surface and exhaling beneath one of the fundamental things we learned way back there at the beginning these swimmers are champions because of their Mastery of fundamentals and plenty of practice you too can become if not a champion certainly a skilled Waterman like Ross Allen who has developed the ability to swim underwater with such speed that he can and does catch alligators in their native elements down down down 20 30 40 ft underwater with ease but this expert even as you and I was once a [Music] beginner