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Always teach my swimming students that if they can't touch, no matter where they are, to practice floating on their back now so if the time comes they can save immense amounts of energy by just floating on their back and flutter kicking. Alot of swimmers overcompensate and use their arms and shoulders way too much to overpower and swim faster, but the legs are a better source of energy to just stay calm and slowly but more efficiently get out of harms way and back to shore. We do drills where they just do back floats and flutter kick 25m to 50m to get used to it. Sometimes we incorporate what we call for the kids Chicken-Airplane-Soldier for their arms to help them understand the motion better and keep a straight line.
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