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?
FINA World Masters Championships:
Ten World Records Fall on Days Three and Four --
June 13, 2012
2012 Fina World Masters Championships
Riccone, Italy
Swimming Schedule: Start Lists & Results
I'm hoping there's a mild current in the St Lawrence River in Montreal so we can warm-up swimming in place. Everyone should have plenty of room. Stay upstream of the moose crossing though.
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Awww, Patrick, moose may be mean, but surely you can out swim 'em with that backstroke of yours! :bolt:
I'm hoping there's a mild current in the St Lawrence River in Montreal so we can warm-up swimming in place. Everyone should have plenty of room. Stay upstream of the moose crossing though.
It is better described as elitism.
I'm not sure. It sounds like the crawl stroke was finally embraced when Trudgen learned it and coupled it with a scissor kick. So the English finally embraced it when another Englishman started using it.
Just got an e-mail from Rich Burns. He said the men's 200 free ended at 8:45 pm and there were 220 heats of the 50 fly to go. On top of that, the 50 free is the first event tomorrow. That's a pretty quick turnaround for those swimming both, which would be a common combo I would suspect.
Agreed.
I had heard the women were finishing early, but wasn't sure about the men, so I came down from Rimini early. Ended up waiting until 10:00 P.M. to swim the 50 fly, struggling all day to find some decent shade to rest. It was fun under the lights with the crowd, but I put up a below average time for me.
I decided to bag the 50 free and 50 *** the next day. Opted to enjoy the strand in Rimini before heading back home through the Alps. One of the best swimming decisions I have ever made.
Congrats to my boys Rich Burns, Ken Frost, Greg Tull and Tate Holt of Tamalpais Aquatic Masters for their World Record in the Men's 240-279 200 Medley Relay! Great job guys.
