If one is not comfortable with bilateral swimming or swimming three strokes but wants to breathe every single stroke on one side and perfect one's rhythmic breathing, it would probably be inhale 1000-1 and exhale 1000-1,1000-2 isn't it? It looks pretty straight but the exhalation does not always come out rhythmically. I went through some of the posts on breathing on this but could not find anything . I know that single stroke breathing would not require the rhythmic breathing skills to the same degree but the idea is to improve as much as possible.
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I read in a couple of websites that when the arm just touches the water ahead, one should turn to breathe on the opposite side. What role would the recovering arm have in all this?. Will it not turn a bit along with the body(while breathng)and then go out of the water slightly later than the catching arm touching the water on the opposite side just before one begins to turn breathe. I have not understood the connection between the recovering arm and breathing if there is any in this single stroke breathing
What you are saying is fairly accurate. You need to breathe when the as the opposite hand enters the water. In terms of the recover arm and you taking too long to breathe, I think you need to focus on getting your face back in the water as you hand gets to you head. If your hand is going past your face while you are still breathing in then you are likely taking too long.
Again, don't over think it too much just try to make the whole thing as smooth as possible without any pauses in the stroke.
