Tips for Triathlon Swimming Transcript
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NARRATOR: There are a lot of skills that you need to practice in order to be able to swim well in open water. The best way to swim straight is to be good at sighting. So, we have a little drill that we do that we like to call "Alligator Eyes" where we swim with just our goggles out of the water. Your mouth is still in the water, breathing as normal and you just alligator eyes out of the water, getting used to your legs- how they balance in the water. Then when you go to take a breath, you still want to breathe to the side and then go right back to alligator eyes.

Buoy turns can be done a bunch of different ways. You can either do buoy turns by combining a front stroke with a backstroke in order to be able to get around that buoy or you can do sidestroking to get around that buoy, or you can just swim tight around that buoy.

So in order to do a buoy turn with what we call a "Tarzan," you'll start out with a front stroke combine it with a backstroke, and then another front stroke, and that gets you around the buoy.

There are several different types of drafting that you can do. Inline drafting is where you swim with your hands on the person in front of you's feet as close as you can, and you're able to pick up a draft that way. 

We also do arrowhead drafting, where you have a number one person in the front. Your two and three people are right behind them on their hip, always breathing to the inside and then you can add people to that crowd behind there and that's drafting!

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