What to remember before and in a Butterfly Race...



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There are lots of things to remember in a Butterfly race:

On the Dive:

Put your goggles on at the side of the block,
When the first whistle blows you climb on to the block,
Then when the official says ' Take to your Marks' you pull back on the block as hard as you can,
Then when the seconds whistle beeps you push off the block with all your strength.

When you enter the water:

When you enter be streamline as possible,
You need to be about 1-2 feet under the water not to deep but not to shallow,
Then do a few quick fly icks underwater making sure you get past the flags on the dive,
Then come up and go straight into the stroke.

On the Swimming:

You should keep your legs together at all times,
As your arms come over:

When they come by your sides you kick once,
Then when they come near your head you kick once again so in the end you are kicking twice per stroke,

On the Turn:

You must touch the wall with two hands then as the same as breastroke you lift one arm over you head as the other whon goes up your body they then meet and you are streamline,
Then do a few fly kicks again like the dive and then come up and do the stroke again,

Streamline
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On he finish:

Touch the wall with two hands and hit the wall as hard as you can making sure that you actually hit it as this could knock off point 0's of a second.

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

Leisel Jones doing breastroke.
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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.

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!!!