Front crawl

The Front Crawl, even crawl, is a swimming style and belongs to the sphere of exchange floating species. It is the fastest swimming stroke in freestyle use.

Technology

Front crawl is the fastest swimming stroke because by the reciprocal arm stroke and the continuous kicking a drive is generated without interruption.

The face of the float looks to bottom of the water. To the breathing of the head is not fully lifted as the breaststroke from the water, but rotated every two to five arm pulls to the side. Thus, the body remains in the horizontal.

While two Armzügen the float usually makes six leg strokes, with long- distance swimmer (or swimmers who have learned after the TI- teaching method ) usually only make two leg shots.

The usual turnaround in Freestyle Swimming is the roll tack, in which the float - instead of hitting the water's edge by hand - makes a role and then repels his legs.

Educational aspects

Crawl is considered easy to learn swimming style for children because it resembles the child's swimming ( "dog paddling "). In the U.S., the swimming lessons begins with this swimming style, while in Germany predominantly first breaststroke is learned.