Breaststroke technique

The first video is the women's 100m breaststroke race from the 2012 Olympics. Rūta Meilutytė, a 15 year old from Lithuania, won the gold. In this video it's a bit harder to really see her technique, but pay extra attention to the underwater footage at around the 6:30 mark.

In particular, notice how small her pull is. She moves her hands in really tiny circles. This just goes to show that you don't need to take big huge pulls with your hands to have a fast breaststroke - Meilutytė won the Olympics at 15!

Also, notice how fast all the swimmers push their hands forward after the pull. You don't want to let your hands get stuck underneath you in the breaststroke - or any other stroke.