What are the best techniques? How do I become a good swimmer? I know practise makes you perfect but could someone give me some hints Thanks
2006-09-13 09:32:22 · 19 answers · asked by Olderwiser 4 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
Everything takes practice, practice and more practice to get better at it. To help you get better at swimming, you should try to find a instructor for help. The best techneques to get better at swimming are to play games in 4 feet water, go to a local pool to practice and asking a lifegard will be fine, know how to float for 1 minute at first, then 3 minutes, after that, you should know how to stay underwater for at least 10-30 seconds(the longer the better), start with a noodle(best not, people may laugh at you so you should insted use a kickboard) and just do freestyle kicking to one end of the pool to the other end of the pool.After you do that very well for 2 or 5 times, then start to use your hands with the freestyle stroke and remember that freestyle goes like this:
start out with a good kick from the wall and put both hands on the kickboard, then start to get your right hand up from the kickboard and make a rotation and put it back on the kickboard(when you are swimming without a kickboard or with nothing to support you, then you should put your hands in front and always get your pinky out of the water and thumb when your arms go back in the water) and then do the same with your other arm. Remember to breathe while you bring your arms into the air.
Now, you should try to do the freestyle until you master it or you are very good at it and move on to backstroke. Here's how it's suppose to go:
2006-09-13 10:37:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Practice
2006-09-13 16:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by Hairyloon 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Breaststroke is best for keeping going longest or swimming underwater. Front Crawl is the fastest.
If possible, try swimming in the sea (where safe) of a pool with a wave machine to build up endurances. Also, try swimming long distances, say 32 lengths (a half mile) in one go, building up to a mile. Make sure to make your strokes really clean cut and try to lift your arms clean out of the water and keep them bent at the right angle when doing the front crawl.
Good luck.
2006-09-13 16:43:06 · answer #3 · answered by Emmersonne M 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Practice and join a local swim team. Compete in swim meets.
2006-09-13 21:20:47 · answer #4 · answered by DanKohner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Practice!!
2006-09-13 16:37:17 · answer #5 · answered by Hedgehog 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Practice. Any ways which stroke are you talking about. Try to improve how you swim by improvising a little.
2006-09-13 19:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by fastglow13 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a good coach,,
breathing in the right rhythm helps a lot,,
i swim a lot,, but i lost a lot of stamina
when i asked a pro ,, he told me how i was mistiming my breathing...
now i have got back the stamina and speed..
so do a lot of practice but the right technique or u may be learning wrong things
2006-09-13 16:41:05 · answer #7 · answered by pagolpakhi 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
practice makes perfect
2006-09-13 16:41:54 · answer #8 · answered by vickiangel 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
practice makes human perfect in any thing
2006-09-13 16:42:49 · answer #9 · answered by LOST 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Buy arm bands and don't let anyone tell you that you don't look cool! wear them everywhere you go just in case of a freak flood.
2006-09-13 16:41:29 · answer #10 · answered by shilo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋