Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Frontcrawl - Breathing

I do not have the actual techniques of how to turn the head to breathe, but this is the easiest method(for me at least). Be sure to get your child to practice the technique by sitting at the pool side first. Only teach your child to breathe on one side first until he/she master the technique before allowing to breathe on other side or both side.

1) Start by the kick and arms pull (I always tell the child to start pulling the left arm first, so that he/she is able to practice the breathing on the right without feeling off balance)
2) As soon as the right arm starts to pull to the back, start turning the head to the right, lifting the chin as high as possible(imagine looking up into the sky). Take a big breath from the mouth as in blowing bubbles, trying not to swallow the water entering the mouth. If water does enter the mouth, spit it back into the water while turning the head back into the water and moving the arm to the front, blow out bubbles through the mouth slowly.
3) While still kicking , repeat the arms pulling process on the the left arm and the breathing on the right.