**Haufler Top Freestyle Drill #2: One-Arm Freestyle (Breathing Toward the Trailing Arm)**

Here’s a swimmer doing one-arm freestyle with the non-working arm trailing at her side. She is breathing toward the trailing arm.

After pushing off in streamline, the swimmer pulls with one arm and leaves the arm by her side. She swims the rest of the length with the other arm…and breathes toward the non-working arm.

When the swimmer first attempts this drill, have her swim without breathing. She should concentrate on rotating equally to both sides, like this. Once she has the rotation coordination, she should take a breath with the correct timing.

The breath must be taken as the working arm is extending forward. The body is rotated and the head is to the side.

The swimmer needs to return the face to the water right at the beginning of the catch of the stroke, when the hand and forearm start pressing on the water.

When the drill is done correctly, the swimmer will be able to see her hand as it travels under water along the side of her body.


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Freestyle Drill #2: One-Arm Freestyle - Trailing