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 think I qualify as a lazy swimmer most of the time too, nice to know I'm not the only one.
I agree that when sprinting there is nothing easy about the breaststroke. I just swam a 50 at a meet and was sure I'd never make the wall - I'd just sink to the bottom unable to do one more stroke.
But for some reason the great feeling of acceleration during the underwater pull gives me a mental lift while flip turns remain torture. So to the extent that mind over matter works, the pull isn't tiring for me. And unless I start thinking too much - one of my failings - I'll be able to do it.
I think I qualify as a lazy swimmer most of the time too, nice to know I'm not the only one.
I agree that when sprinting there is nothing easy about the breaststroke. I just swam a 50 at a meet and was sure I'd never make the wall - I'd just sink to the bottom unable to do one more stroke.
But for some reason the great feeling of acceleration during the underwater pull gives me a mental lift while flip turns remain torture. So to the extent that mind over matter works, the pull isn't tiring for me. And unless I start thinking too much - one of my failings - I'll be able to do it.
