I watch lap swimmers and many have difficulty learning the breastroke kick. When they swim breastroke, the kick is off. Freestyle and backstroke not nearly the same problems. Butterfly is also difficult to master. As someone who has swim both fly and breastroke, sometimes I fell that *** is harder on you than fly. And in my middle years I'm more of a breastroker. What do you think? Which one is harder?
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Breastroke as a kid was easy for me since I had the kick. My first coach was an ex-breastroker for the Holland National Team in the 1940's. And the red cross is incorrect breastroke is no leisure stroke about 80 percent of beginning swimmers have difficulty with the kick and its not a leisure stroke if you swim it with a little speed and do some under water pull outs. Also, top flyers like Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz where fly comes natural worst stroke is breastroke. Many beginners have problem learning fly but most dominate flyers or backstrokers or freestylers have more difficulty with *** because it is a kick stroke rather than an arm stroke. As for fly it was easier for me than backstroke as a kid which was my worst stroke and I could swim a 50 yard fly as fast as a 50 yard freestyle as a kid. I can't say the same thing today because my upper-body strength is weaker.
Breastroke as a kid was easy for me since I had the kick. My first coach was an ex-breastroker for the Holland National Team in the 1940's. And the red cross is incorrect breastroke is no leisure stroke about 80 percent of beginning swimmers have difficulty with the kick and its not a leisure stroke if you swim it with a little speed and do some under water pull outs. Also, top flyers like Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz where fly comes natural worst stroke is breastroke. Many beginners have problem learning fly but most dominate flyers or backstrokers or freestylers have more difficulty with *** because it is a kick stroke rather than an arm stroke. As for fly it was easier for me than backstroke as a kid which was my worst stroke and I could swim a 50 yard fly as fast as a 50 yard freestyle as a kid. I can't say the same thing today because my upper-body strength is weaker.
