According to the Masters swimming rulebook, “technically” a stroke is butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, or freestyle. But this isn’t what you are looking for. So according to my Webster’s dictionary a stroke is: 1) one of a series of propelling beats or movements against a resisting medium , 2) a single unbroken movement; especially: one of a series of repeated or to-and-fro movements
My third source for the technical definition of a “stroke” is the coach. And, while your individual coaches may vary, mine considers a stroke to be 1 arm pull. At least, this holds true, when she is asking for us to count our strokes or breath every third or fifth stroke. And since the first rule of swimming is “The coach is always right, even when they are wrong”, I have to go with the coach and say one stroke is one arm pull.
According to the Masters swimming rulebook, “technically” a stroke is butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, or freestyle. But this isn’t what you are looking for. So according to my Webster’s dictionary a stroke is: 1) one of a series of propelling beats or movements against a resisting medium , 2) a single unbroken movement; especially: one of a series of repeated or to-and-fro movements
My third source for the technical definition of a “stroke” is the coach. And, while your individual coaches may vary, mine considers a stroke to be 1 arm pull. At least, this holds true, when she is asking for us to count our strokes or breath every third or fifth stroke. And since the first rule of swimming is “The coach is always right, even when they are wrong”, I have to go with the coach and say one stroke is one arm pull.