How do you swim breaststroke underwater?

what am I doing wrong? Everytime I pull my arms back in, I also end up pulling myself to the surface! Do you somehow have to adapt it or am I just screwing it up completely?|||You have to modify your arm movements, but your leg movements can stay the same. Try tilting your hands from 45degrees to 80 or 90, and not to pull your arms too far back. Instead of pulling the arms slightly downwards as you would, when swimming at the surface, give them a sideways sweep. Ensure they recover in a streamlined fashion so that there is minimum resistance against the water,as the hands cut to the front.



Swimming in neck high water and diving deeper, closer to the pool bottom would make swimming underwater easier. Also get a partner to help you to start by slightly pushing down on your back.



It is a wonderful experience and once you get the hang of it, you could play various underwater games, and developing longer breath-hold by swimming two or more breadths of the pool, which is advantageous in recovering lost items or rescuing a drowning person. To improve faster, challenge with your friends. :--))|||There are lots of things that you can do: first, ensure that your arms go to your sides when you pull, not anywhere below the plane of your body; second, angle yourself slightly downwards, so that you propel yourself down with each stroke; third, look down at the bottom, but be sure to glance forward every now and again to avoid hitting the wall! You can even modify your hand pull to be a little above your body at the sides, and if you're swimming a short distance, only take in half a breath after you've breathed up (but never try this for a full length). If you try to keep your tummy lower than your head and legs, slightly reverse arching your back, you create a reverse Bernoulli lift that converts some of your thrust into a downward force. A strong push angled slightly downwards from the wall gets a good start, and finally, swim as close to the bottom as possible (I use about an inch clearance) so that your lungs are more compressed, and therefore less buoyant. Just don't try to remember all this at once!





However, some people are just more buoyant than others. I use a freediving weight belt and a 1kg weight, and that does the trick - I can swim underwater without having to half-empty my lungs first. This way I've been able to swim 55m underwater horizontally. (Without the weight I can only do 33m.)|||Pulling in breaststroke is all about launching your body forward. When on top of the water, you want to shoot a little deep so your kick can push you back up. Try angling your head lower, the rest of your body will follow. Do a slow pull at the beginning of your long pull-out and get your angle right, and when you feel like you're slowing down, pull the rest of the way.





So remember: watch your head, watch your angle, keep your form.|||Take a look at the .gif I attached in the source.





You should examine the timing of your arm pull and kick.





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