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Amsepamse
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Freestyle and backstroke: body/head position floating and then kicking. Freestyle breathing from a side kicking and switching sides. The tricky part is adding arms and maintaining body position when breathing.
No drills; just work on those aspects.
Butterfly and breaststroke: start with arms and breathing pattern from a floating position. Legs comes naturally when you have the body movement established.
These kids train only once a week for 30 weeks/year, so building fours strokes takes many years. The once weekly in my opinion is too much time between practices and they forget (muscle memory) in between.
Train them daily and you will have four strokes easy before they are six years old.
My experience is that the overuse of “drills” greatly delays the progression towards completing four strokes.