Swim Skills Resources

Below are explanations and videos to view a streamlining land exercise, back float with flutter kick, and a simulation of the 4 swimming strokes.

Equally important is the skill to float on your back and kick to the wall after jumping into the water. The video at the link below is of children learning to backfloat.

"Until recently, there have been no studies of the musculoskeletal analysis for swimming because of the difficulty to estimate the fluid force acting on the swimmer's whole body, although such analysis could prove to be valuable information for the athlete swimmer's training and coaching…”