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All right, in this step--this is the third step of freestyle swimming. What you'll do
is, you're still going to continue doing the flutter kick, but now what you want to do
is move away from the water. Get away from the wall--so, you want to step away from the
wall and then just kind of be a little bit less than halfway in the pool. Just feel comfortable
where you're at, and slowly more further back as you feel a little bit more confident in
your flutter kicking ability. And what you'll want to do is kind of push off the floor,
and you'll go, and you'll just flutter kick, with your hands either in front of you and
your head up, and you're just kicking, or you may grab any type of floating device,
and just hold onto it--like a kick board, and just kick. And you really want to build
on your legs first. That's one of the strongest points in freestyle swimming. So, let me show
you again on the floor. So you'll have your hands either like this, right--you'll have
your hands like this, or you can have them holding a floating device with your head up.
So, the main thing of this is you want to be away from a wall kicking towards it. Practicing
on your legs, feeling more comfortable, not being so close to the wall anymore. And that's
the third step for freestyle swimming. You can practice from here to the wall, and you
basically just want to have your head up out of the water for this one. Just to get used
to moving around the water and feeling a little bit more confident in your swimming abilities.
So you can have your other hand in front of the other, or you can hold onto a floating
device, and you just--and again, you go to the other side of the wall, and kick again.
And so for that you can have the other hand in front of the other one or hold onto a kick
board or something.