How To Do Front Quadrant Swimming

Hi I'm Paul, this is Theo from swimminglessonslondon.co.uk.

We're going to give you a few tips on swimming today. You're more than welcome to contact us for any more information or to book a session. Thank you.

Alright, I'm going to talk to you about front quadrant swimming. This is a technique that is widely used now to encourage maximum body length, this in turn reduces drag. We'll have a look at Theo now swimming using FQS and you'll see his hands almost completing the whole motion before the next one leaves.

So the recovery arm meets the other arm almost like you're doing catch-up drill. Now this encourages streamline position. The longer the vessel, the less drag there is.

So by keeping that arm in front while he pulls with the other, he reduces his friction in the water. This is now commonly used amongst most swimmers. It was at one time only been used by elite athletes but now it's quite a common practice with recreational swimmers also.

This is how we choose to teach all of our clients. Again you'll see one hand comes over and almost meets the other. It meets in the front quarter of the rotational circle of the arms.

So with FQS just to summarize, what you're actually doing is one arm is almost meeting the other. So continually you're keeping your length at maximum. What people do quite often in mistake is that they move both arms at the same time, so effectively reducing your distance quite considerably by an arm's length.

And the longer the vessel the less drag there is. Visit us at www.SwimmingLessonsLondon.co.uk