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Test your swimming knowledge with Coach Gabriel's After Camp Quiz. (this is for everyone, not just camp attendees.) Click on the question for the answer.

1. What are the two types of strokes?

2. Which came first...breaststroke or butterfly?

3. What are SMART goals?

4. How should you eat every day to stay healthy?

5. What should you eat for practice?

6. What should you eat before meets?

FREESTYLE & BACKSTROKE QUESTIONS

1. How does streamline help you swim faster?

2. How should you move through the water?

3. How should you kick?

4. Where should your elbows be?

5. What should your head position be?

6. How should you pull?

7. Why should you be on your side?

8. Where does your kick start (feet, knees, or hips) and why?

9. Why do some swimmers wiggle?

BREASTSTROKE QUESTIONS

1. What is the breaststroke timing?

2. What happens to your hips as your hands come forward?

3. How should you kick?

4. Where should you keep your head?

5. When you pull, where should you keep your elbows?

6. How should you pull?

7. How far back should you pull?

8. How should you recover your hands after the pull in your pullout?

BUTTERFLY QUESTIONS

1. Where should your hands enter the water?

2. How do you pull underwater?

3. How should you breath?

4. How many kicks do you take for every one  pull?

5. What do your arms do when pulling?  When recovering?

6. When your hands go in, what should happen to your hips?

7. What kind of water do we want to pull?

SO, HOW DID YOU DO?