The technical essentials of freestyle breathing are as follows:

1. In freestyle swimming, a breath is usually taken during one stroke of each arm, taking inhalation to the right as an example: after the right hand enters the water, the mouth and nose begin to exhale slowly.

2. The right arm paddles under the shoulder and begins to turn the head to the right side and increase the amount of exhalation. When the push of the right arm is about to end, exhale hard. As the right arm comes out of the water, open your mouth and inhale until you move the front half of the arm in the air and begin to turn your head to restore it.

3. Then, until the end of the arm into the water, there is a short process of closing the breath, and the face turns to the front down.

4. When the head is stabilized, the right arm enters the water and then the next process of slow exhalation begins.

Expanded Information:

Freestyle breathing and arm and leg coordination, beginners generally take 6:2:1 method, that is, breathing once, arm rowing twice, leg playing 6 times, this method of coordination is easy to maintain balance and coordination to master freestyle technology.

The basic technical characteristics of freestyle swimming are: the human body lies prone in the water, the head and shoulders are slightly higher than the water surface, the torso rolls around the longitudinal axis of the body, and the two arms take turns to paddle the water to push the body forward. After the hand into the water paddling route is S-shaped, breathing and paddling action coordination. When the arm force paddling, the use of water flow in the head on both sides of the formation of the valley inhalation.

Freestyle, with its more reasonable action structure, labor-saving and low resistance, is one of the fastest swimming postures at present.

Specifically, in freestyle swimming, the leg action, in addition to propulsion, also plays a balancing role in maintaining the stability of the body and coordination of the arms to do a powerful stroke, the arms can be divided into the front cross, the middle cross and the back cross.

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