The hardest thing to do in the backcrawl turn is to find the wall. There are a couple of ways to do this, the first is to look for the flags across the pool and count your strokes from the flags. The ...

Freestyle swimming has been included in every modern Olympics. Currently, freestyle is contested in more Olympic events than any other stroke, at distances of 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, and 1500m.

When you first try front crawl, swim with all of your body close to the surface of the water, keeping your hips and legs behind your shoulders. Imagine you are trying to swim through a narrow tube ...