Swimming Tips

Standing from a Prone Swimming Position

The best swimming tips for regaining a standing position in the water are essential to learning how to swim and overcoming the fear of water.

For complete beginners, these swimming tips can start from holding the poolside or floats held under each arm. As confidence grows, the swimmer can attempt standing without assistance, which requires a greater use of the arms and hands. This can also be progressed to a moving exercise, moving first towards and then away from the poolside.

Movement should be relaxed and smooth, knees are drawn forward as the arms Simultaneously pull downward and backwards as the head lifts and faces forward.

Key Focus Points

Pull down and back with both arms

Bend your knees forwards as if to sit

Lift your head upwards

Place your feet on the pool floor

Common Faults

The movement is rushed and not relaxed

Failure to bend the knees

Arching the back

Failure to pull down and back with the hands



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Entering the Water

Understanding buoyancy and your own ability to float.

Learning to deal with getting your face wet and building up to partial and total submersion.

Regaining a standing position from a supine position.