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 swim every stroke and distance but my favorite is the 200 backstroke. I usually tend to place better in the 200 fly though, even though it's my worst stroke (the place is highly correlated with number of entrants--3 entrants = third place).
I swim every stroke and distance but my favorite is the 200 backstroke. I usually tend to place better in the 200 fly though, even though it's my worst stroke (the place is highly correlated with number of entrants--3 entrants = third place).
