Jason

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If you try to swim without a t shirt or the jammer swim suits it will get much easier to swim and float, give it a try!

Your lower body is sinking, engage your core and bring your hips and legs closer to the surface. This will help you have a more efficient stroke. Your toes should touch the surface.

Try kicking hugging a board to help you float the upper body and just focus on bringing your legs high in the water.

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Once you get more speed the floatability gets better, now try pulling the water backwards down instead of down.

You are pulling with your arm straight, the arm needs to be bend while pulling underwater like grabbing and pulling from the lane line.

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Good head position, and staying calm. 

Work on your kick and legs position, think about taking your toes to the surface of the water.

Areas to work on, in general:

• Work on one thing at the time, Focus one day on one thing, then the next day another point, do not try to correct it all at once.
• You can work slowly 2 times a week on your ankle flexibility and dryland out of the water, here is some videso that can help you link
• Keep up the good work, you came to the camp not knowing how to swim backstroke and now you know how to, is time to start working on your technique and different points that will make it much easier to swim it.

Backstroke examples:

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Good underwater push, to come easier up to the surface change the position of your arms diagonally up. Also work on the mobility of your shoulders.

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When kicking your leg comes up have it straight, right now you are bending the knee to bring your feet up. look at the gif below

Your pull is too slow, when you finish gliding and you bend your elbow to start the pull, accelerate the pull and do it strong.

You need to grab and pull the water strong every time, the more strokes doesn’t mean you will go faster on the contrary, you will go slower and get more tired.

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Good arm reach and full pull.

Try to breath every stroke or every 2 strokes, it might be easier to hold your breath but when you will take a breath after holding for so long you are going to sink and keep you head out of the water too much.

Maintain a breath rhythm.

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Better kicking position! But still see how you are bending your knees to bring them up, you need to kick up and down, keeping your leg straight when going up.

Also a better and stronger pull and good job on breathing every stroke. Time too focus the most on the kick.

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You are taking your head out too much to breath, remember it should only come out half of the face.

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Good flip turn! Now try to be closer to the wall when turning and throwing your legs towards not up the wall so you have a better landing.

Areas to work on, in general:

• Sometimes is good to forget about the technique and just try to make it flow, by trying to move as gentle and smooth as possible.
• Work on your ankle flexibility, do dryland training these videos can help you: videos 
• Lots of improvement from the first day to the next ones, you are just missing to bring you whole leg straight towards the surface.
• Amazing progress! Can not wait to see more improvments!

Free examples: