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2 Awesome Downloads: Breaststroke Kick Technique Printable Drill and Tip Sheet Plus 6 Printable Breaststroke Lesson Plans
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A breaststroke leg kick that provides little or no power is frustrating. No problem; there are plenty of drills to correct it. Also, download a bunch of lesson plans to help you teach breaststroke. Hi, Mark here. Feeling frustrated? I've prepared a Breaststroke Kick Technique printable tip sheet to ease your frustrations. It has a great basic drill to help fine-tune your leg kick, along with some of the most common mistakes to look out for. Breaststroke Legs: Step By Step...We can break breaststroke leg kick down into three basic steps. Step 1: Knees bend as the heels are drawn up towards the seat. At the same time, the legs need to bend at the hips, effectively drawing the knees up under the body. Step 2: Feet and toes are turned out, exposing the surface area of the soles of the feet to the water, ready for them to drive the water backwards. Step 3: The legs sweep outwards, around and slightly downwards in a flowing circular path, accelerating as they kick. Download the printable that I promised and try out the basic leg kick drill.
Breaststroke Lesson Plans To DownloadHere I give you 6, yes SIX, breaststroke lesson plans to download, print if you want to and use when you are teaching. They are each around 30 minutes and cover each stroke part at a basic level. You can, of course, adapt them to suit your pool, pupils and lesson timings. Click here to download your lesson plans, or click the button below.
These breaststroke lesson plans are taken from the Teaching Resources section of Swim Teach. Click here and take a look at the rest of my resources for swimming teachers. Give your swimming lessons a shake-up today!
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I've been teaching swimming for over 30 years and I built Swim Teach so that I can share all my knowledge, wisdom and experience from the thousands of swimming lessons I have had the pleasure of teaching. Take a look back through my previous newsletters and see what you missed.
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