Freestyle hand movement

Hey people, and welcome back to my swimming blog. As most of you may know (those of you who consistently read my blog, that is), another week, another different swimming style. Now let me do a small “checklist” to see what styles we've done/not yet done so far. OK... (Breaststroke? Check. Butterfly? Check. Backstroke? Check. Freestyle? Che- wait a minute, I just remembered something...) Hold on guys, I just remembered something critical about the consistency of my swimming blog so far.

But before I go misleading you into all that “new swimming style” stuff, unfortunately I need to breakI know that you guys are (probably) already excited to discover what other newfangled swimming style I'm going to teach you guys about, but I've got some bad news to you guys (how bad the news is, that's up to you how bad you want to accept it as). Brace yourselves my dear readers...

Remember that time back when I used to create posts about freestyle? Remember when there were only a few posts about freestyle? You know, how to swim faster in freestyle, what I know so far about it, that stuff, you know? Turns out it wasn't complete (obviously), and it was missing a ton of important posts. Hand movement, “reflection” and other posts.

So in this post, we're going to discuss about the freestyle hand movement. We probably should have just discussed this sooner, but I guess we've got no more opportunities to do this yet. As usual, I cannot call this a swimming post without any proof that my theories are true, can I? You can find the video here. You might want to consider watching the video, as it is an official one that you can count on as your ultimate guide to learning about the freestyle hand movement, so I highly recommend you guys to watch it in combination with the video for maximum effectiveness.

If you cannot/don't want to watch the video, however, well, all I can say is, good luck actually making any sense from the post, as it's supposed to be used along with the video. You're free to read the post alone, of course, but you won't understand it for the most part (note: I said for the MOST part. Fortunately for you non-video watchers out there (if that's the right word), the blog also consists of some theories that I stated myself). That's all I'm saying. So without further ado, why don't we just get straight to it?

As you may have seen in the video (for those of you who have actually watched the video, that is), the freestyle hand movement is one continuous movement throughout your entire period of time swimming freestyle; it's the same movement throughout the entire period of time swimming freestyle. No changes, no change, it's just this order of monotonous arm movement; back and forth, back and forth, back and forth until the end of time (just kidding, only until the period of your freestyle swimming is over) One mistake, and the whole cycle is broken, so be sure to keep a steady pace throughout the entire period of time swimming freestyle.

Honestly, I think that should be it for the freestyle hand movement. Maybe it's not much, but it should be the one basic tip that I should put in if I wanted to tell you the ultimate trick to swimming the freestyle (or at least executing its hand movement). So I'll be back with more freestyle soon. But for now, goodbye and see you until then!