Freestyle - 6-Kick Swim

When you’re trying to build a great freestyle, it’s important you focus on the extreme ends of the body. Why do it: Learning how to drive the hands forward from the legs will help you develop a more complete stroke, and then afford you the ability to choose how fast you want to go, or how efficient you want to be. How to do it: 1 - Consider this a delayed freestyle. Holding each stroke for an extra few kicks. We call it 6-kick swim so it’s just enough distraction to get swimmers to delay.... the actual number of kicks isn’t that important. 2 - While you hold for a brief moment on each side, focus on extending the arm completely straight out front. 3 - Keep the kick going for the entire length. How to do it really well (the fine points): This drill can also help swimmers learn a better breath timing as well. As you take a stroke, turn your head to air with the body. Immediately after the breath, bring the head back down and focus on your balanced line.