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Like surfing, skating or skiing. Swimming is a glide sport which is fun and satisfying.
Just like surfing, skating or skiing, swimming is above all a glide sport. These sports are all very popular for providing that same feeling of satisfaction that comes from being fully conscious of your body.
When swimming, the first desired quality is glide. It allows you to go faster without too much effort. Moreover, it allows you to get maximum enjoyment out of the challenging sport that is swimming. It really is the swimmer's Holy Grail.
However, swim glide is difficult to achieve. It comes from good propulsion, perfect positioning and excellent coordination.
The crawl is an alternating stroke. Good coordination is crucial for effective swim glide. Without it, drag and dead time may arise, especially during breathing.
Once again, for glide, it is essential to achieve buoyancy and reduce obstacles to progress.
Most high-level crawl sprinters take these different elements to the extreme, for maximum propulsion, glide and hydrodynamics:
Clearly, swimming is a sport in which body extension is highly important for effective movement under and over the water. A swimmer will swim even faster if they enjoy feeling the sensations of the water, such as glide.
And don't forget: When swimming, the water is not your enemy but your ally: don't fight against it, use it to help you glide, move and get maximum enjoyment!
Backstroke is an alternating but asymmetrical stroke (like crawl/freestyle), which allows continuous, uninterrupted progress. However, arm-leg coordination is also very important, especially for buoyancy. Obviously, a body that is horizontal in the water will glide and therefore move more easily.
The key to glide in backstroke lies, particularly in the leg kicks. Aside from propulsion, they help to keep the pelvis afloat on the water and to stabilise the hips for perfect horizontal positioning, providing better hydrodynamics (reduced drag).
On the back, the more elongated the body and the closer the legs are to the surface, the more effective the propulsion, providing better swim glide.
The breaststroke is a symmetrical and alternating stroke, which makes it harder to achieve glide. We can see the "discontinuous" nature of this stroke can create dead time, greatly slowing the swimmer down. Breaststroke differs from butterfly, because the movements are not continuous and in many ways alternating. Again, good coordination (dissociation of the arm-leg movements) is required for smooth and effective glide.
This smooth coordination, with the arms and legs providing propulsion alternately, without neglecting the glide phase, should increase the propulsive potential of your stroke and provide you with maximum sensation. This will improve your performance and also help you conserve energy.
Butterfly is a symmetrical and alternating stroke, which without optimum coordination can greatly hinder glide. The key is to time the strokes correctly to achieve effective propulsion, for rapid and smooth movement and glide.
When the best swimmers do butterfly, you can see that their stroke is smooth it seems natural and continuous and comes from the whole body and not just the legs. This smooth-glide technique provides better progress in the water and considerably reduces fatigue.
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