Interesting. The kick is so unnatural, but the arms and lifting your head up to breathe is pretty easy (compared to side to side in free).
Breaststroke was the original racing stroke in the Western world.
In the Western world, the front crawl was first seen in a swimming race held in 1844 in London, where it was swum by Native North Americans, who easily defeated all the British breaststroke swimmers. However, the English gentlemen considered this style, with its considerable splashing, to be barbarically "un-European". The British continued to swim only the breaststroke in competition.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Front_crawl
Now that takes balls. You get blown out of the water, but claim the other guy's stroke is barbaric. Ain't racism great?
Interesting. The kick is so unnatural, but the arms and lifting your head up to breathe is pretty easy (compared to side to side in free).
Breaststroke was the original racing stroke in the Western world.
In the Western world, the front crawl was first seen in a swimming race held in 1844 in London, where it was swum by Native North Americans, who easily defeated all the British breaststroke swimmers. However, the English gentlemen considered this style, with its considerable splashing, to be barbarically "un-European". The British continued to swim only the breaststroke in competition.
en.wikipedia.org/.../Front_crawl
Now that takes balls. You get blown out of the water, but claim the other guy's stroke is barbaric. Ain't racism great?
