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

Leisel Jones doing breastroke.
(picture from dailytelegraph.com.au)

In a race there are lots of things to remember....

On the dive:

Put goggles on at the side of the block,
On the first whistle you climb onto the block,
When the man says 'take to your marks' you pull back on the blocks,
Then when he says 'go' you use all you effort to push off the block as hard as you can,

When you enter the water:

Streamline for about 6 seconds,
Then pull your arms down to the side of your body hold this for about 3 seconds as you do this you are allowed to do a small flutter kick,
Then pull your arms back up the front of your body and stretch into streamline by this point you should be nearing the surface point of the water you then break into the stroke.

On the turn:

You MUST touch the wall with two hands other wise you could be disqualified,
Then put one arm in front next to your ear as the other arm comes over the surface of the water,
Then slam your hands together so that they are streamline,
Then do the same as you would on a breastroke dive do the pull down,flutter,push up, streamline motion you then break into the stroke.

On the finish:

You MUST touch the wall with two hands. Slam into the wall really hard with your hands so that you are definate that you touched the wall on the finish.