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Heads Up Or Down In London This Weekend?

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Sep 13, 2013
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Many swimmers (and coaches) believe everyone should look straight down when they swim with most of their head in the water:


The idea of this is that it helps bring the legs up high in the water reducing drag but if you have a great body position from good stroke technique, or if you have a good buoyancy distribution for swimming (as most women do), then …

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