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Clearing Up The Confusion About 'Front-Quadrant Swimming'

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Sep 19, 2014
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You might have heard of something called Front Quadrant Swimming which has to do with the timing of your freestyle stroke. It's widely recognised as being an efficient way to swim and something that you should use in your own stroke technique but there's a lot of confusion about what it actually means:

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