How to Swim

There are many types of swimming to enjoy. Learning about the sport of swimming can be almost as fun as swimming itself. Get expert tips and advice in this swimming video.

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Determine type of swimming
Research swimming strokes
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Phillip Toriello has 16 years of competitive swimming experience. 12 of those years he has been teaching and organizing swim events for swimmers of all levels and ages. He is has competed in all four strokes, and their corresponding events. Though his favorite race, is the individual medley. Phillip is the Aquatic Director at the high end Avila Bay Athletic Club.

PHILIP TORIELLO: Hi. My name is Philip Toriello, and this is how to swim. I guess the first question you need to ask yourself is what do you want to swim? What type of swim do you want to do? Swimming involves many different stokes, which is going to be as comfortable as the elementary backstroke, the general backstroke, the butterfly, the freestyle, the breaststroke, the sidestroke, the "I don't care" stroke, the doggy paddle stroke, it could include any and all of those. If you want to learn more about each, just do a little bit of research online or in your local community at your local club or swim club, talk to a coach, a swim instructor, and they can guide you through the principles and techniques of each stroke. How to swim is simple as you want to make it. Each technique or each stroke has a series of steps, which really don't involve that much. Take for example your backstroke, requires a simple float on your back and then its thumb out, pinkie in, bend your elbow, push, maintaining a continuous kick, you're swimming on your back. A breaststroke is simply a pull, breathe, kick, glide; a four-step process. It's all that matter if how you look at swimming is to how easy it is or how easy is it will be to learn. So, again, visit your local swim instructor or swim coach and find out a little more. Check out that rest of the videos here on this website to find out more about the five strokes that we've just talked about.

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