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Should You Emphasise The Back Of Your Stroke?

Should You Emphasise The Back Of Your Stroke?

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Paul Newsome, Swim Smooth
Aug 20, 2010
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Should You Emphasise The Back Of Your Stroke?
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Many swimmers are under the impression they should complete the back of the freestyle stroke with a big push as the hand passes the hip. You can reduce your strokes per length doing this but over-emphasising the push can cause swimmers numerous problems:

- It tends to fling your hand out of the water by your hip giving an unbalanced arm recovery action. …

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