Breaststroke shoulder exit technique

Nowadays, many parents let their children learn swimming from an early age so that their children can grow up healthily and also to develop a skill. When children learn to swim, they usually start with breaststroke. When children are learning to swim, parents should be there to watch over them to prevent them from drowning. So, what are the techniques for exiting the water with your shoulders in breaststroke?

1. Skill 1: Breathing

No matter which swimming style you learn, you should first learn rhythmic breathing. Let me teach you a method, the “hmm-pa” exercise. First, enter the water and make a "hmm" sound. Note that you should exhale through your nasal cavity with your mouth closed. Then, after about one second, stand up, make a "fear" sound, and inhale at the same time. Be careful to eat big and open your mouth wide. The "Hmm Pa" exercise is the most practical for beginners to practice rhythmic breathing.

2. Skill 2: Relaxation

Body stiffness has always been the most serious and most widespread problem for adults learning to swim. Swimming is different from many other sports. The more flexible you are, the more comfortable you will be in the water. Conversely, the stiffer you are, the harder it will be for you to swim and float. This is also the reason why many muscular men who are just starting to learn to swim swim very slowly underwater.

To figure out how to relax underwater, you first need to know how to exert force. There are two kinds of human force, one is static force. This kind of force will not cause the shape to change; the other kind is dynamic force, which will cause the shape to change. For example, the process of a weightlifter lifting a barbell uses dynamic force, and the process of maintaining the lifted position after lifting the barbell uses static force; and the weight of the barbell is the degree of force used. So this degree is the minimum force required to maintain a certain body posture.

So how do you practice specifically?

Do as the editor says, stand on the shore, take a deep breath, use your legs to reach the edge, relax your hands and keep them close to your sides, and don't let your body tense because of acceleration. When the propulsion force decreases, slowly let your feet move on the ground. Repeat a few times until you feel you can float relaxedly.

3. Skill 3: Water discharge technology

When doing breaststroke out of the water, you need to pull your back in and lift your waist to create a forward momentum. Look at professional breaststroke athletes. Their movements out of the water are always full of agility, rather than being as calm as most people. If they don’t get out of the water well, the power generated by the previous kick will be completely offset.