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Swimming and Water Safety Instruction (WSI Techniques, Tips, and Tricks)

This page contains lots of great information about teaching swimming strokes, basic water skill progressions, and water safety skills for self-rescue and assisting others.

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American Red Cross
Boy Scouts of America
Canadian Red Cross
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YMCA Swimming

Strokes

Strokes for WSI Class (* = Competitive)

Back Crawl (Backstroke)*

ARC BACK CRAWL
Go Swim Backstroke (Jeff Rouse)
How to Swim the Back Crawl (Phillip Toriello)
Michael Phelps Backstroke

Breaststroke*

ARC BREASTSTROKE
Breaststroke Lesson (Jimmy DeShea)

Butterfly*

ARC BUTTERFLY
Butterfly Lesson (Jimmy DeShea)
Go Swim Butterfly with Misty Hyman
How to Swim Butterfly (Phillip Toriello)
Underwater View of Butterfly (Misty Hyman)
Zoggs Butterfly Technique

Elementary Backstroke

ARC ELEMENTARY BACK

Front Crawl (Freestyle)*

ARC FRONT CRAWL
Front and Back Crawl Lesson (Jimmy DeShea)
Inward sweep of Ian Thorpe's freestyle
Zoggs Freestyle Technique

Sidestroke

ARC SIDESTROKE
How to Swim the Sidestroke (Phillip Toriello)
Underwater View of Sidestroke

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