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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Personality, fly is harder now because I came back gradual on but its not harder to swim any longer than breastroke for me. Probably because I try a pullout on breastroke and I'm 45 years old. As a teenger I swam two flys at JR Olympics and did the second 200 yard faster in one day. On the other hand, at the community college finals ,I swam 2 seconds slower in the second 100 yard breastroke. It was a sprint. And as stated before there are lots of breastokers with fly as the second stroke but flyers and freestylers and backstrokers don't have breastroke as their second stroke because of the kick involved. I was a mediocre freestyler as a kid and I develop first as a breastroker and the fly was added because in novice dual meets they needed someone to swim that event and I was pick and I develop also as a flyer.
Personality, fly is harder now because I came back gradual on but its not harder to swim any longer than breastroke for me. Probably because I try a pullout on breastroke and I'm 45 years old. As a teenger I swam two flys at JR Olympics and did the second 200 yard faster in one day. On the other hand, at the community college finals ,I swam 2 seconds slower in the second 100 yard breastroke. It was a sprint. And as stated before there are lots of breastokers with fly as the second stroke but flyers and freestylers and backstrokers don't have breastroke as their second stroke because of the kick involved. I was a mediocre freestyler as a kid and I develop first as a breastroker and the fly was added because in novice dual meets they needed someone to swim that event and I was pick and I develop also as a flyer.
