How do you swim breaststroke?

Describe the breaststroke like you would to a beginner as I am a little rusty. What do you do with your arms and legs? Please be as descriptive as you can.


|||LEGS: Whip Kick


To practice, first, sit on the edge of the swimming pool. Sit on the very end of you bum with your legs straight out into the water. Bend your knees so that the bottom of your feet are facing the floor of the pool. Then, keep your knees together while you whip your feet/lower legs outwards in a forward half-circular motion to your initial bend knee position. When you whip your legs around, your thighs should be together while the bottom part of you legs do the work. Continue this stroke for the duration of your breaststroke.





ARMS: Breaststroke


Start off with your arms straight out. Move your arms in a backwards half-circular motion to a position where your hands are together at your chest in a "prayer". At this "prayer" point, your head would above the water for one breath. When you have taken one breath, dip your head back into the water and shoot your arms out straight once more. At this straight-armed position, you would be gliding for at least a few seconds (count a slow three seconds).





TIMING:


You would use your whip kick right after you dip your head back into the water (after your breath) and right before you glide. The whip kick gives you momentum for your glide.





HEAD POSITION:


During your glide, your head should not be completely submerged. Why? Because it takes more time for you to surface to take your breath if you are completely submerged. So, you head should only be half-submerged (leave your forehead out of the water).





When you are taking your breath, your face should be facing forwards. As you are about to dip your head back into the water to complete your glide, your face should be facing the water. As a result, your nose would be the first part of your head that is in the water.





I hope this helps your stroke! Good luck :)|||make circles with your arms and kick your legs like how a frog kicks its legs.





I suck at breastroke.|||ok... well with your arms, you make a giant pizza around, then you go up through it and cut it in half. (my swimming instructor told me that) and with your legs, do the same. well.. that is what I do.|||I tried to do the breast stroke in the pool one day and we both almost drown.