The sidestroke is an old swimming stroke that can be fun to swim. This article proposes a sequence of dry land exercises and swimming drills that should allow you to learn this stroke with relative ease. By practicing these drills you should be able to learn the sidestroke over the course of a few swim sessions.
Now this position is the initial position that you would use if you did swim the side stroke on the left side.
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Lie down on the floor in a side position as in drill #1 and now execute the motions of drill #1 and drill #2 simultaneously. To synchronize arms and legs, bring the upper leg towards the chest at the same time as the upper arm moves towards the chest to meet the lower arm. Don’t forget to change sides after a few repetitions.
Note: In the above video, the arm motions may seem different in drill #2. This is because when lying on the floor, the shoulder range of the lower arm is limited. This doesn’t change the fact that drill #3 is very useful to learn the proper coordination of hand and leg motions before trying them in the water.
At the swimming pool, grab a water noodle and place it under the arm pit of the side you want to swim on. Push off the wall and take on the initial position of the sidestroke:
Now practice the scissor kick in this position. Change the side at each pool length. When this becomes easy, try the drill without the swim noodle.
At the swimming pool, grab a pull buoy and place it between your legs. Push off the wall and take on the initial position of the sidestroke. Now practice the arm motions alone, changing again the side at each pool length.
Now let go of the pull buoy and grab the swim noodle again and place it under the arm pit of the side on which you will be swimming. Then push off the wall and try to swim the sidestroke with both the arm and leg motions.
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Finally, once you have practiced all the swimming drills above, you can try to swim the stroke without any floatation aids.
An additional drill I like to do when swimming side stroke at the pool is to alternate sidestroke and breaststroke. Do it like this:
This has the following advantages:
It might be that you have trouble maintaining balance in the side position. In that case, the following sequence of drills is useful to improve balance and get used to swimming on the side:
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