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In general: If you fall into deep water and cannot swim, you could potentially drown.

In training or leisure: more resistance against the water.

If the swimmer does not know how to use BLABT (body position, leg kick, arm pull, breathing and timing) the stroke will become uncoordinated.

The goal is to become as streamlined as possible in the water and effectively use the correct concepts of BLABT. If they execute wrong/unnecessary movements during the stroke, it will slow the stroke down and the swimmer will be fighting against the water to do the stroke.

example: If the arm pull in front crawl is too wide and short (IE. it is moving too far away from the body sideways), they cannot get the distance and time as they would with a long, narrow arm pull. With a long narrow arm pull they can reach forwards and pull back gaining more distance than pulling back only a fraction of the distance with the short and wide stroke.

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