Swimming skills are very complicated. The deeper you know, the more you will feel that you still have many shortcomings. It's like a sculpture. The more you pay attention to details and carve every detail, the better your work will be.

Today, I will talk about the learning steps and practice points of swimming, hoping to help those who teach themselves to swim get some inspiration.

0 1 breathing mode

Importance: ★★★★★★★

Time and effort: ★

The way we breathe when swimming is different from the way we breathe on land every day, so we should avoid inhaling when swimming.

If you can't get used to the correct swimming and breathing at first, then the next four strokes will enter the bottleneck.

Learn to exhale evenly in the water and ensure that most of the gas is exhaled, so that the inhalation action can be better connected when the water is ventilated.

02 Head position

Importance: ★★★★★

Time and effort: ★

Swimming needs streamline, and the position of the head is very important.

Too high or too low head position is wrong, which will not only destroy the streamline and affect the ventilation action, but also lead to poor breathing.

In the four strokes, we should all learn to use the water on the top of our heads, not the forehead or the back of our heads.

A steady mind

03 kick

Importance: ★★★★★

Time and effort: ★★★★★

Except for breaststroke, the leg movements of the other three strokes produce less propulsion than the arm movements, but this is not the reason why you ignore the practice.

The function of kicking is not only to provide propulsion, but also to lift and balance the body.

Hand-leg coordination in freestyle

Butterfly stroke requires two legs to cooperate with the action of the rower to form a body wave. No kicking, no coordination.

Leg coordination of butterfly swimmers

04 shoulder and torso rotation

Importance: ★★★★★★★

Time and effort: ★★★★

In freestyle and backstroke, you can't complete the correct stroke without turning your shoulders.

Turning the shoulders can well drive the body to rotate, but it is relatively difficult for the body to rotate to drive the shoulders.

Backstroke with big shoulder turn.

We need the flexible rotation of the shoulder connecting the arm to move the arm, stretch forward, and keep paddling and pushing the water. If your shoulders are stationary, your arms will not reach the correct stroke range.