I know their are many factors why some people are freestylers or breastrokers or flyers or backstrokers. Body type is one factor and interest is another. I wonder about the influence of first coaches as a kid, my first coach ran a swim school and she was on the Dutch National team in the early 1940's. She was a breastroker and seem to emphisized the kick in the stroke.So she practice the kick with me and of course breastroke was one of my beststrokes during the age group period and in masters its my best stroke as an adult when I returned in my 40's. So does anyone else agree that first coaches in either age-group or novice swimming or masters swimming influences the strokes we tend to be better at.
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Backstroke requires strong biceps, breastroke requires strong flexible adducters and forearms, free style is more natural so tends to attract the "overall" athelete, while butterfly requres shoulders and core (IE abdomen) muscles. The prototype breastroke body would be steve lundquist, butterfly - Phelps, Freestlye - Gary Hall jr, and backstroke Jeff Rouse.
Backstroke requires strong biceps, breastroke requires strong flexible adducters and forearms, free style is more natural so tends to attract the "overall" athelete, while butterfly requres shoulders and core (IE abdomen) muscles. The prototype breastroke body would be steve lundquist, butterfly - Phelps, Freestlye - Gary Hall jr, and backstroke Jeff Rouse.
