swimming freestyle tips?

The most important thing you can do to improve your swimming is to learn proper head position. To learn that, imagine a line being drawn from the top of one ear to the top of the other. THAT is where the water should be hitting your head when you swim.

Having proper head position narrows your body and allows you to roll side to side while you swim.

Your fingertips should always be pointing toward the bottom of the pool and your elbows should always be pointing up. Keep your head down as described earlier.

If you breathe to the left, you're rolling your body onto your right side and your right hand is just entering the water. Barely turn your head. Keep the top of your head down (as described above) as should you lift your head, your feet sink and it slows you down.

Your hand, when in the water, should make an "S" pattern as you roll side to side. Keep your head down as described earlier.

Kick six times (3 w/ each foot) for each stroke cycle (a stroke cycle is a stroke with both hands ... so, left & right hand is one stroke cycle for freestyle). Keep your head down as described earlier.

BTW, did I mention that you should keep your head down as described earlier? Well, if I didn't, it is very important and a major mistake swimmers make.

Good luck.

Right, I don't know the lingo for this in English, but I hope it still makes sense to you. You should work on staying in a stable position while swimming. Stay stretched. Keep a steady pace with your legs to maintain a balanced position in the water. Do not turn your body too far when you take a breath. Do not let one side of your body drop when you turn your head to breathe. Breathe on both sides (like once every 3 strokes) to get a feel for what you're doing wrong. Try and swim as if you are trying to keep your shoulders above the waterline without getting into a diagonal position (so use those legs!). Avoid unnecessary resistance, do not move sideways with your body, just rotate your arms. Keep long, steady strokes. Try and get a feel for your balance by not starting the next armstroke until your first hand touches the other (just for practice and not competition of course). I'd have to see you swim to know what exactly you're doing wrong. But with some basic points of attention you should be able to improve your position while swimming. And remember: be lazy! Try and be as fast as you can with as little effort. Of course you need to put in a lot of hard work to become the best, but technique is about swimming as effectively as possible. Minimum resistance and maximum effect from effort is what you are looking for technique-wise.

carry you elbow high and have your hand enter the water like a knifes edge about 7 inches in front of your head. Get a good catch of water with the other hand, and follow through all the way. You should feel the "wake" at your feet from your pull.

I found that wearing silicon earplugs helped me keep the proper form- I hate having water in my ears and that made my breathing pattern screwy. The idea is facing the bottom of the pool and breathing by turning your head from one side to the other to breathe (Imagine shaking your head "no") and breathing on the same side as your completed stroke, or when your arm is by your side. Hope this helps!

elbow up, reach out as far as you can before you put your hand in the water, cup your hands, just slightly bend your wrists not a lot, don't bend your knees on purpose, they will do it a tiny bit naturally, but don't think about doing itturn your feet out a little bit while kicking, and rotate

keep your fingers tight against eachother to get maximum amount of water, keep your elbows high, keep your head as still as possible so just rotating your shoulders and don't lift your fingers so far out of the water otherwise your just wasting valuable energy.

make sure your using the maximem time that your hand is out of the water b/c lets face it.. its easier to move your hand through air than water which = faster times. also make sure you keep your hands cupped so you can push as much water as you can and of course kick kick kick! :)

wear a swim cap.

just believe in your self and do your very best when doing it.....