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Butterfly to backstroke is a two-hand touch open turn. Once a legal touch has been made, the swimmer may turn in any manner, but the shoulders must be at or past vertical towards the back when the swimmer leaves the wall. Backstroke to breaststroke the swimmer must first touch on their back. Once a legal touch has been made, the swimmer may ...
The turn involves a touch on the wall in backstroke, followed by a back flip which puts the swimmer in position to push off into breaststroke. Crossover turn: a turn used in individual medley in the backstroke-to-breaststroke transition. In one fluid motion, the swimmer touches the wall on their back, rotates onto their front, and does a front ...
Elementary backstroke: Both arms move synchronized (They begin out like an airplane, then go beside the body like a soldier then they run up the sides and back out to an airplane position) with whip kick. Inverted butterfly: Similar to elementary backstroke, but with a dolphin kick. This is often used for training.
The flutter kick in a front crawl. In swimming strokes such as the front crawl or backstroke, the primary purpose of the flutter kick in beginner and intermediate swimmers is not propulsion but keeping the legs up and in the shadow for the upper body and assisting body rotation for arm strokes.
This elementary backstroke swim was used in the 1900 and 1908 Olympics. The backcrawl swim supplanted the elementary backstroke swim after 1908 as the competitive back swim and it is now referred to as the backstroke. Another variant is the old style of swimming backstroke, where the arm movement formed a complete circle in a windmill type pattern.
On today's episode of Good Word with Goodwill, Vincent Goodwill is joined by Dan Titus and Ice Young to catch up on the latest NBA headlines regarding the Timberwolves, Knicks, Nuggets and Clippers.
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