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Summary: Learn how to do the barracuda thrust figure for synchronized swimming in this free swimming lesson video.
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Next up, we're going to practice a Barracuda Thrust. It's another figure you would do in the deep end of the pool. Your body starts off in a Pike position, your hands are reaching down towards your ankles, just like the Pike stretches that we started with, your legs are together. You're going to scull, unroll your body, press your hands up over your head, as high as you can, you're nice and long and your body's going to sink under the water in a vertical position. This is something we can start, just like I just did, in the deep end and you will take the whole thing and turn it upside down so that your legs are thrusting out of the water. Again, you start reaching over at your ankles, scull one, two, three, press them up, stay in a vertical position and you sink underwater. We are headed to the deep end to try it, let's go. That same way upside down.