Swimming Team Question!!?

1. TTPW Says

   The four strokes:
   Butterfly
   Breaststroke
   Backstroke
   Freestyle
   You can read books, watch youtube videos, get private lessons, or even just ask a friend who’s swam competitively before to give you instruction.
   50 free=2 laps freestyle in a 25 yrd/meter pool. I’m assuming it means you need to keep a consistent one minute pace over five sets of two laps. It it was all at once they’d probably say something like a 250 freestyle in five minutes. Our cut was a 500 free under 12 minutes. Just remember to condition yourself BEFORE tryouts. Swim a lot. push yourself, alternate between sprinting laps and long distance swimming. Ask someone to watch you do the four strokes and make sure its legal (its actually really simple to remain legal, but there are many things you can do beyond legality to benefit your speed)
   Practice flip turns.
   Don’t practice anything you are not sure about doing, unless someone is watching and ready to critique, or you are very familiar with what you are learning, because you may create a bad habit and end up being very slow/excessively tired. But if you don’t have the time to get that critiquing, then just practice the way you think it is. Better than nothing.

2. Natasha Says

   The four strokes are freestyle (front crawl), back stroke (back crawl), butterfly, and breaststroke. If you were doing an individual medley (IM) the order of stokes would be fly, back, breast then free. In a 25 meter, or yard pool, a 50 means 50 meters/yards, or 2 laps. Holding a 50 free on the minute is likely meaning on the minute interval, or leaving every minute. This might mean you only get a few secinds rest before you go again, depending on how fast you can swim a 50.
   Hope this helps!

3. Lyndatha Says

   This means that you need to be able to do all four strokes: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle. Freestyle is basically rotating your arms while kicking, and backstroke is just the same thing on your back. You can probably find diagrams online. About swimming legally, you might have to find a coach to watch you swim and let you know of your errors. In a standard 25 yard long pool, a 50 is 2 laps. If it’s 50m, a 50 is one lap. The pool in question is probably an 25 yard long pool. So she wants you to be able to do 5 sets of 2 laps, and she wants you to do two laps in under a minute, 5 times.

4. maria Says

   What she means is…
   -You need to know the 4 strokes: front, back, butterfly and breast. You probably at least know front and back, if you don’t know butterfly and breast then maybe look them up online.
   –Be able to hold 5 50 frees on a minute? I’m not positive what that means, but 5o free means two laps (the end of the pool and back) doing front stroke (front is also called freestyle). I think she means be able to do two laps in 1 minute, and repeat that 5 times.
   Hope this helps! Good luck with swim team, I’m doing it at my school and I know it’s really fun.

5. Josh Says

   do the back stroke butterfly freestyle and breast stroke http://www.cyocamphoward.org/swim/forms/StTrn.pdf this will help you out and 50′s are 50 meters

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