# | The Movement | Regular Swimming | ![]() |
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1 | Fingers above the water | Fingers closed and stretched | Fingers are open (not so much) inside and outside the water |
2 | Angle between forearm & upper arm in entering the hand in the water | About 90 degrees between the upper arm and the fore arm in order to stretch the arm as much as possible in the water. An Obtuse angle is possible only when the flexibility of the swimmer allows it. | Obtuse angle between the upper arm and the fore arm. The hand as it touches the water has to be as straight as possible |
3 | Height of elbow above the water | As much as possible | Elbow is not so high & far from the head |
4 | Angle of palms entering the water | Between 0 to 45 degrees | 0 degrees to be ready for the pull |
5 | Depth of hands in side water | Almost in the line of the water | Between 10 to 40 centimeter depends of the flexibility of shoulders & neck |
6 | Legs | The rhythm of the legs is fast between 2-6 | The legs are moving slowly & only when the body is rolling and not by themselves |
7 | The finishing of the pool | Finishing in the side of the body | We finish in the internal side of the thigh |
8 | Depth of the head | Head forward sometimes high when we swim fast | Head strate ' the middle of the head is in the line of the water or even deaper , we try to find the place of the head when the legs |
9 | The arrow at the beginning of the swim | We push the wall in arrow position and only after 2 sec we begin swimming | At least 2 movement of the hips (dolphin) |
10 | Breathing timing | As the hand touches the water the body start rolling and the head turns with the body | At the end of the pull the head rises |