What you should remember before and in a freestyle race...

There is lots of things to remember in a race...

On the dive:

Put goggles on at side of the block,
At the first whistle you climb onto the blocks,
When the man says 'Take to your marks' You pull back on the blocks,
Then when he says go push off with all your strenghth.

When you enter the water you have to be streamline,
Then do a few flutter kicks making sure you get past the flags on your dive.

On the tumble turn:

DON'T GLIDE INTO THE WALL AS YOU COULD WASTE SECONDS DOING THAT AND THOSE SECONDS COUNT.

Do a stroke so that you are a tiny bit away from the wall,
Then put your hands by your sides and flip over making sure that your legs are on the wall ready to push off.

The push off the wall bit has to be streamline,the longer you are under the water the better as you can go all the way to 15 meters of the pool (5 fifths of it).

Before coming up to take a breath after you have pushed off the wall you need to do 2 stroke swithout breathing just to make sure you are getting way past the flags.

The finish:

Make sure that you are fast slamming into the wall so that the water comes back to you with the force of your hand slamming hard.

IF YOU DON'T SLAM HARD YOU COULD LOSE A RACE BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS BEATEN YOU BY A 0.1 OF A SECOND BECAUSE YOU DID NOT SLAM BUT THEY DID.

They key thing to remember in a race: be streamline at all times!!!