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Introduction

Here is a whole swimming pool full of tips to help you improve the most popular stroke of all - front crawl.

It is the fastest stroke and gives you the feeling of being powerful in the water.

It is often hard to get the hang of it at first because fitting in the breathing can be difficult.

However, once you have mastered this area it can become one of the easiest and most rewarding strokes to perform.





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