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Step 1
Begin in a streamline position. This position with your arms straight above your head. Your arms should be close to your head with your hands overlapping. Your arms should form an upside down V.
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Step 2
Move your hands from being overlapped to straight out. Your arms will be parallel to each other. This pull is very circular so bend your elbows to make the motion easier to do.
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Step 3
Push your hands in a downward motion from above your head down toward your waist. This is the movement that will give you the most of your forward motion. You'll move your hands about to the middle of your ribcage. Your head and upper body will want to naturally come out of the water at this point in the stroke, this is the place where you will naturally breathe.
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Step 4
Move your hands in front of your body. Your hands will start on each side of your body. Point your fingers inward toward the center of your body and move your hands toward the center of your body and upward toward the center of your chest. You hands will end palm to palm together directly in front of your chest over your heart.
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Step 5
Extend your arms back up over your head with your hands overlapped into the streamline position.
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Step 6
Repeat steps 1 through 5 to complete the arm motions for breaststroke.
