If you are comfortable in the water and have spent enough time with the drills in the previous chapter to feel confident about your posture and balance skills, you are ready to add a few stroke skills to your repertoire. This chapter describes how an effective swimming machine (soon to be you) works, and I introduce an easy-to-incorporate concept used by many world-class swimmers called front-quadrant swimming. Several stroke-integration drills will help you assemble your swimming machine and incorporate front-quadrant swimming. These drills help you put together the discreet skills you learned in the posture and balance drills, integrating arm strokes to create a coordinated set of motions that propels you easily down the pool. After you’ve spent some time with the drills, the whole stroke cycle is covered again, offering some fine-tuning tips that will help improve your drills and bridge the gap between drilling and swimming. Finally, you will learn about the two most effective ways to turn when you come to a wall.
As you follow and practice the drills in the order presented in this and later chapters, you will progressively build a new freestyle stroke from scratch. For a while, when you swim rather than practice drills, you will tend to revert to whatever stroke style you had before you read this book. The more comfortable and relaxed you become with these skills and drills, though, the easier they will be to incorporate into your everyday swimming. The workouts in subsequent chapters are built around progressively practicing the drills while first mixing in small and later larger amounts of full-stroke swimming.
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