When front crawl isn’t clicking, know what to try next

Front crawl can look simple when it is working well.

But teaching it is rarely that simple.

One swimmer cannot keep a stable body position.

Another kicks from the knees.

Another struggles to recover the arms cleanly.

Breathing causes the whole stroke to fall apart.

Or the swimmer can perform each part separately but cannot put everything together smoothly.

And sometimes you have already explained the problem several different ways and the swimmer still cannot make the change.

The Front Crawl Teaching Toolkit gives you something practical to reach for when those moments happen.

A progression to follow. A drill to try. Another way to explain it.

So instead of wondering “What can I try next?”, you have ideas ready to use.

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Three common teaching problems. Three practical solutions.

“I’m not sure what to teach next.”

Front crawl contains several individual skills that have to work together: body position, leg kick, arm action, breathing, timing and coordination.

The challenge is knowing what to introduce next and how to build the stroke progressively.

PLAN IT

The toolkit includes 18 ready-to-use Front Crawl Lesson Plans to give your teaching structure and progression.

Use them to:

• plan lessons more efficiently
• break front crawl into manageable stages
• develop individual stroke components
• build skills progressively
• give swimmers a clear route towards whole-stroke front crawl
• avoid having to invent every lesson from scratch

Whether you are newly qualified or simply want a clearer structure, the lesson plans give you a progression to work from.

“I know what’s wrong, but I need another way to fix it.”

You can see the swimmer’s legs are sinking.

You know they are bending the knees too much.

You can see the arms are crossing the centre line.

You know the breathing is disturbing the stroke.

But identifying the fault and knowing what exercise to use next are two different things.

PRACTISE IT

The toolkit includes 20+ Front Crawl drills and exercises designed to help develop and correct technique.

Use them when swimmers need additional work on:

• body position
• leg kick
• arm action
• breathing
• timing and coordination
• whole-stroke efficiency

Instead of simply repeating the correction, give the swimmer an exercise that allows them to isolate, practise and feel the movement you are trying to develop.

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“I was running out of ideas for correcting front crawl breathing. Having different drills to try gave me a much clearer way to break the problem down.”
Pablo -  Swim Teacher, GA

“I’ve explained it, but they still don’t understand.”

Every swimming teacher experiences this.

A phrase works immediately with one swimmer...

...and does absolutely nothing for another.

You might tell one swimmer to “keep your body long” and see an instant change.

Another may need an image.

Another may need a rhythm.

Another may simply need fewer words.

Repeating the same instruction louder or more often is rarely the answer.

Sometimes you need a different way to say the same thing.

EXPLAIN IT

The toolkit includes Phrases for Teaching Front Crawl, with hundreds of quick cues and alternative words for swimming teachers. 

Use it when a swimmer understands what you want, but your usual instruction is not producing the change.

Find alternative ways to explain:

• body position and alignment
• kicking
• arm action
• breathing
• timing and coordination
• common front crawl problems

Because sometimes changing the phrase is what finally makes the skill click.

Plan it. Practise it. Explain it.

The real value of the toolkit is not simply that you receive three ebooks.

It is that the three resources work together.

Imagine a swimmer whose front crawl falls apart every time they breathe.

You can:

1. Find the progression
Use the lesson plans to identify where breathing should sit within the swimmer’s development.

2. Choose a drill
Select an exercise that isolates breathing without asking the swimmer to manage the entire stroke at once.

3. Change the explanation
If the movement still is not working, try a different cue from the Phrase Book.

That gives you three different ways to approach the same teaching problem.

Progression. Practice. Communication.

That is what turns three individual resources into a practical front-crawl problem-solving toolkit.

What’s inside the Front Crawl Teaching Toolkit?

Front Crawl Lesson Plans

18 ready-to-use lesson plans

Structured teaching ideas to help you develop front crawl progressively rather than starting every lesson from a blank page.

Use them to build individual skills and gradually bring them together into whole-stroke swimming.

Front Crawl Drills

20+ practical drills and exercises

Exercises for developing technique, correcting faults and giving swimmers another way to practise difficult movements. 

Phrases for Teaching Front Crawl

Hundreds of alternative teaching cues

Different ways to explain front crawl when your normal wording simply is not connecting with the swimmer.

See inside the toolkit before you buy

Want to see how the lesson plans, drills and teaching phrases work together?

Take a look inside the Front Crawl Teaching Toolkit before purchasing.

The preview includes genuine sample material from all three resources and shows how you can move from:

a teaching problem → a progression → a drill → an alternative cue

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“There is much more here than I expected. The lesson plans give me structure, the drills give me alternatives, and the teaching points are easy to refer back to.”
Melody -  Swimming Teacher, FL

Made for real swimming lessons

The Front Crawl Teaching Toolkit is particularly useful if you:

• regularly teach front crawl
• find yourself repeating the same corrections
• need more ideas for breathing, kick or arm-action problems
• want a clearer lesson progression
• want additional drills ready to use
• sometimes struggle to find another way to explain a movement
• are newly qualified and building your teaching confidence
• are experienced but want fresh poolside ideas

You do not need more complicated swimming theory.

You need practical answers to the questions that arise in real lessons:

What should I teach next?

What drill should I try?

How else can I explain this?

That is exactly what this toolkit is designed to help with.

Created from more than 30 years of swimming teaching

I’m Mark Young, founder of Swim Teach and an ASA-qualified swimming instructor with more than 30 years of hands-on teaching.

Over that time I have worked with children and adults at different ability levels and seen the same teaching challenge repeatedly:

Different swimmers need different ways into the same skill.

One swimmer responds to a particular drill.

Another needs a different progression.

Another simply needs the instruction phrased differently.

The Front Crawl Teaching Toolkit gives you more of those options.

Everything in one digital toolkit

You receive:

✓ 18 Front Crawl lesson plans
✓ 20+ drills and exercises
✓ Hundreds of teaching phrases and alternative cues
✓ 3 downloadable PDF resources
✓ Instant digital access
✓ Use on mobile, tablet or computer
✓ Refer back to the resources whenever you need another teaching idea

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The next time front crawl gets stuck, you’ll have somewhere to turn

When the body position starts to fall apart...

When the kick is coming from the knees...

When breathing disrupts the whole stroke...

When the arm action needs another approach...

Or when your usual explanation simply is not getting through...

You do not have to keep repeating the same thing.

Find the progression. Choose a drill. Try another way of explaining it.

Plan it. Practise it. Explain it.

The Front Crawl Teaching Toolkit gives you practical ideas to help keep both your swimmers — and your lessons — moving forward.