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PHILLIP TORIELLO: Hello and welcome to Expert Village, I'm Phillip Toriello from the Avila
Bay Athletic Club. In breaststroke, the technique is really quite technical and exact. You have
the outsweep, the insweep and the recovery as far as your arm motion is concerned. Now,
that's just the arm motion. In this particular chain of events is really important 'cause
a lot of your strength and forward momentum relies on the arm motion. We'll start with
the recovery position as far as the arm motion is concerned. The arm position in the recovery,
the full recovery position, will be up here. This is the basic leader start position. You'll
then go into your outward sweep which works on your catch. So, from this point, at the
tip of my fingers to this point, this is where all the power is going to start as far as
your stroke is concerned. And this will be the outward motion. How I like to look at
this is basically, this is the tip of a heart, you go into your outward motion, then, you
do your insweep into your chest at the top of the heart and back towards the center,
finishing the recovery position. So, again, it's going to be the starting point or the
tip point, outward motion, inward sweep, recovery.