Beginner
Swim Stronger - Improve your front crawl (freestyle) arms with a pull buoy and these drills
Coach's take: Covers the mistakes nobody else mentions - orientation, placement, and a real injury warning.
3.9
How to use a pull buoy
Swimming / Popular
Use a pull buoy and paddles to build a stronger pull.
What coaches agree on
- Tuck the buoy between your legs and let it float them for you, freeing every bit of your effort for the arm pull.
- Hold it high, right between your thighs near your hips, for the most stable and secure fit.
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- Once plain pulling feels comfortable, add paddles to the set to load extra resistance and build arm and shoulder strength faster.
Common mistakes
- Reaching for the buoy every session, or just because you're tired, until you can't hold your form without it, turns a training tool into a crutch that hides the very technique flaws it should help fix.
- Letting the buoy's float do all the work instead of actively bracing the core, so the hips sag or the legs swing side to side the moment the position isn't consciously held.
Intermediate
Do You Need A Pull Buoy To Improve Your Freestyle Swimming?
Coach's take: Technically sharp, well-structured, no filler.
3.8
Intermediate
How to Use a Buoy the Right Way
Coach's take: Best explanation of how the buoy can hide bad habits, and what to do about it.
3.8
Beginner
How To Swim With A Pull Buoy | Improve Your Freestyle Swimming
Coach's take: Clear, structured, credible - exactly how to teach this.
3.8
Beginner
Why You SHOULD Swim With A Pull Buoy
Coach's take: Explains the actual mechanism, not just 'it helps' - this is real coaching.
3.7
Intermediate
4 Pull Buoy Mistakes Ruining Your Technique
Coach's take: The buoy is quietly teaching you the wrong hip position — here's the fix and a drill to test it.
3.7
Beginner
Coach Robb: Swimming: Pull Buoy + Paddles
Coach's take: Explains the why, not just the how, and actually warns you about overuse injury -- that's a real coach talking.
3.6
Beginner
Swimming pull buoys - All you need to know. Get the right type, size and use them properly!
Coach's take: Purpose, technique, sizing, fitting — this one does it all properly.
3.6
Intermediate
You've been using Your Pull Buoy Wrong
Coach's take: Explains the actual mechanism of the problem and gives you two real fixes.
3.5
Intermediate
Freestyle - Core Pull-Buoy Drop with Dolphins
Coach's take: Small drill, real teaching - explains the why, not just the what.
3.4
Beginner
How To Use A Pull Buoy
Coach's take: Simple, accurate, and tells you when NOT to use it — that's the mark of someone who's actually coached this.
3.2
Beginner
How to use a Pull-Buoy in Swimming |Improve Your Swimming|- Swimming Tips For Beginners In Hindi
Coach's take: Actually demonstrates it stroke-by-stroke and gets the hard-strokes call right.
3.1
Intermediate
How to Swim with Paddles and Pull Buoy
Coach's take: Best of the batch for actual usability -- a real drill you can go do, not just a description.
2.7
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Intermediate
[Triathletes] The Argument For Using Pull Buoy And Paddles
Coach's take: Smart triathlete-specific angle, just never isolates the buoy from the paddles.
2.7
Intermediate
How to Use a Pull Buoy for Swimmers (2021)
Coach's take: Good sizing advice, just gets a bit brand-catalogue by the end.
2.5
Intermediate
Pull Buoys, Total Body Balance
Coach's take: Good technique buried in a rambling, promo-heavy delivery.
2.4
Beginner
Swimming Training Aids: Kick Board and Pull Buoy
Coach's take: Short but correct and clearly explained -- a solid, no-nonsense basics resource.
2.3
Beginner
Using the arena PullBuoy to improve your swimming: strength, endurance and stroke technique
Coach's take: Solid basics on placement and variation, just don't expect much beyond that -- some of the runtime is product marketing.
2.3
Beginner
Pull Buoy Technique Advice
Coach's take: Accurate basics, but no depth beyond the summary.
2.2
Beginner
Swimming Pull Buoy Explained: Best Gear for Stroke Efficiency
Coach's take: Decent drills buried under an affiliate-link sales pitch.
1.8
Beginner
How to use a Pullbuoy by Speedo - Presented by SwimShop
Coach's take: Correct but bare-bones — blink and you've seen the whole lesson.
1.8
