What are the basic things you are though when you start learning swimming in school?

Question

Backstroke, Freestyle Front Crawl etc. theres a couple more?

Answer 1

1st off, get the corage to do so,
then controlling ur breathing by learning how too breath out from ur noise in the water, and breath in from your mouth when your head is out!
controlling your breathing!
now, if you can do so, that is great, u can go ahead and learn how to float, ok!
to do so, if you do not know how too, u need a tutor, u can not do it at the begenning alone! if you do know how too, great we move on!
now you are willing to swimm better strokes, ok!
here are some drills;
kicking with kick board, while trying to breath in and out at a certain amount of seconds while your head is under the water!
the catch up drill, u kick without the board, ur hands up straight at the same line with your head and body axe, this is the best form for swimming, while your head is down, looking alittel bit ahead, not totaly down neither up, at an angel of 20 degree from down, u count 3, make one arm full stroke!
now if you want to improve your stroke, here i how, your arm full extended, for the frontcrawl, with a swift and powerfull stroke, u bring it to a 90 degree under ur chest, here is the trick, under your body u pull the hardest, then leave it to go out of the water and with your elbow high, not arm high but elbow high, u let ur arm go out of the water to trow it with ease to the front of your head body axe at the farest point you can reach!
same for the other arm! now your leggs should be kicking, according to the distance you are doing, the frequency of the kicking should be in balance with the speed of your arm strokes!
now the kick starts from you bottom straight, then, a littel bending iin the knee while the legg is goin up! the feets should be touching each other!
i am a national champ in swimming, i know best, i used to be in the front crawl and in the butterfly!
the butter fly needs a longer email!
thank u!

Answer 2

breathing
tread water
kicking using kick board
floating on back
They are basic thing before doing stroke