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Summary: The arm movement for the breaststroke kick involves starting in streamline position, moving the arms out and to the sides, then returning to streamline. Learn how to do the proper arm movements for swimming the breaststroke in this free Olympic swimming lesson on video.
Rotem Agame is a professional swimmer who has participated in the finals of the European swimming championship. She also was part of the Israeli National swimming team. Rotem Worked as...read more
"Hi, I'm Olga and I'm Rotem. We're former professional swimmers and we're here on behalf of Expert Village. So now we're going to show you the pull part of the stroke. It's really important to take it slow and go through the movement we're explaining. So you start from the streamline position like in every other stroke, remember freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke all require the streamline position. You start opening your hands out to the sides with the elbows slightly bent. So you see the elbow is not straight it's slightly bent and you bring your hands into your chest and back to the streamline position. One more time, open to the side with the elbow slightly bent, bring your hand to your chest and back front. Okay, now from a different position and I wanted to add something, if you're a parent teaching your child, you can place your hand slightly under your kid's hand and actually move with his hands showing him the motion. As we showed you before, you open your hands out to the side, bring it to your chest and back to the streamline position."
eHow Article: Overview of the Breaststroke Arm Movement