Least favorite stroke

I have a lot of difficulty with the crawl. I've been working on it (whenever the limbs permit) for over a year. I can do the breathing, arms and legs individually, but if I try to do all three things at the same time, my brain will run out of RAM, and my operating system will crash. The motion just doesn't seem natural to me. My lane buddy, a septuagenarian multiple heart attack survivor, keeps trying to suggest I switch to tennis or racquetball, while passing me effortlessly. I've tried to do exactly one butterfly stroke during my lifetime. (I had read about it in a book.) It caused a number nauseating crunching noises in the shoulder that I messed up back in college (don't ask). In the ensuing panic, I quickly switched to doggie-paddle. When the lifeguards saw this they threw in an emergency flotation device. I am most comfortable with the *** stroke, which is not to say that I do it either fast or correctly. My head does go under water after a breath. Usually it comes back up before I take the next one.

I have a lot of difficulty with the crawl. I've been working on it (whenever the limbs permit) for over a year. I can do the breathing, arms and legs individually, but if I try to do all three things at the same time, my brain will run out of RAM, and my operating system will crash. The motion just doesn't seem natural to me. My lane buddy, a septuagenarian multiple heart attack survivor, keeps trying to suggest I switch to tennis or racquetball, while passing me effortlessly. I've tried to do exactly one butterfly stroke during my lifetime. (I had read about it in a book.) It caused a number nauseating crunching noises in the shoulder that I messed up back in college (don't ask). In the ensuing panic, I quickly switched to doggie-paddle. When the lifeguards saw this they threw in an emergency flotation device. I am most comfortable with the *** stroke, which is not to say that I do it either fast or correctly. My head does go under water after a breath. Usually it comes back up before I take the next one.