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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I don't found breastroke a lazy stroke. For one the underwater pull probably takes more oxgen out of you particulary when you are in poor shape. When I first swam it in workouts I avoided the underwater pull. Both Breastroke and fly is where I experiance Lancid acid built up more than freestyle and backstroke. The flip turns also take it out of me over 500 yards these days. And I too had a good fly as a teenager because I workout on it a lot. My backstroke suffered because I workout on the other three strokes. Freestyle to built up yardage as a kid and breastroke and butterfly because they were my better strokes. The fly has suffered as an adult because at first I did mainly freestyle and breastroke and my upper body strength I have lost a lot of it-I'm 46 years old. Also, as a kid the period where I swam backstroke the best was when I was on a novice team where the coach did a lot of it. Proving my point a little.
I don't found breastroke a lazy stroke. For one the underwater pull probably takes more oxgen out of you particulary when you are in poor shape. When I first swam it in workouts I avoided the underwater pull. Both Breastroke and fly is where I experiance Lancid acid built up more than freestyle and backstroke. The flip turns also take it out of me over 500 yards these days. And I too had a good fly as a teenager because I workout on it a lot. My backstroke suffered because I workout on the other three strokes. Freestyle to built up yardage as a kid and breastroke and butterfly because they were my better strokes. The fly has suffered as an adult because at first I did mainly freestyle and breastroke and my upper body strength I have lost a lot of it-I'm 46 years old. Also, as a kid the period where I swam backstroke the best was when I was on a novice team where the coach did a lot of it. Proving my point a little.
