About backstroke

• In backstroke, you swim by rotating your body with an axis from the top of the head to the spine.
• Bring your hands out of the water alternately, insert them into the water, and push the water.
• Lift your legs by bending and stretching your knees quickly.

Propulsion

• Using the underwater hand as support, bring the other hand forward and insert it into the water quickly.
• Make the underwater elbow at a right angle, and collect water.
• Push the water backward as the body rotates.

Breathing

• In backstroke breathing, you inhale through the mouth when you recover the same hand.
• Keep exhaling from the nose except when you inhale.
• Put your weight on your head and keep your face close to the water surface.

Steps to learn

• First, stabilize the face-up angled body position.
• Next, you learn the movement of hands in the water and above the water surface.
• Also, you learn the switch movement to move both hands at the same time to complete backstroke.