Body position mistakes in backstroke

The most common mistakes made with regard to body position are (1) swimming with the head too high and (2) piking excessively at the waist.

1. Swimmers who hold the head too high generally have the body inclined down too much from head to feet. this will increase form drag. In addition, they will need to use the arms and legs to support this high head position, which will increase pushing drag and reduce propulsion because they will be pushing down with the arms and kicking too deep during the first downsweep.
2. Some backstrokers swim with the hips too low in the water. This is particularly true of young swimmers when they are first learning this stroke. When a swimmers has good horizontal alignment, his body is inclined down only slightly from head to hips and his head is comfortably back in the water in line with his trunk, and his is not kicking too deep. When the swimmers has poor horizontal alignment his hips are too deep, his head is too high, and he is kicking too deep.

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