Swimming Terminologies

The act of inhaling air through the mouth and breathing out through the nose underwater

• Undulation

• Bubbles

• Streamline

• Threading

Body position when the tip of the finger is straight through your head, back until toes to minimize drag.

• Streamline

• Undulation

• Sculling

• Threading

The action of coasting with a pause in your stroke

• Flutter kick

• Pull

• Glide

• Sculling

Drill to build confidence in water to float on one back with limbs extended

• Prone float

• Tuck float

• Supine float

Type of float to build confidence in water where arms and legs extended and facing the bottom

• Prone float

• Supine float

• Tuck float

Technique to build confidence in water where body is to fold like a ball and the hands place interlocking the knee

• Supine float

• Tuck float

• Prone float

Kick in swimming where legs are moving in an alternately up and down motion originating from the hips to the pointed toes. This kick is use in freestyle stroke.

• Dolphin kick

• Frog kick

• Scissor kick

• Flutter kick

Kick use in butterfly stroke where both legs kick in time together

• Flutter kick

• Dolphin kick

• Frog kick

• Scissor kick

Kick where rotating the body facing side while doing the flutter kick

• Scissor kick

• Dolphin kick

• Frog kick

• Threading

Side of the arm where will you do the breathing in freestyle

• Arm recovery

• Breathing arm

• Arm recovery

• Swing out