So I've got a really silly question. What is the difference between a one and two-beat kick in strokes? Is this only a fly thing? Even though I used to swim and am swimming again I can't quite figure out what the definition of this is. Or maybe I just don't remember or am not familiar with the term. In either case, can someone help?
The people who primarily do this learned how to swim butterfly that way. Back in the day there was no such stroke as butterfly. The stroke evolved from breaststroke. Back in the 'olden days' there was no rule that the elbows had to stay underwater in ***, so someone thought, "huh, maybe I can just recover both arms over the water." Turns out that was a much faster way to swim and perfectly legal with the wording of the rules at that time. At some point the rules were just modified to make *** and fly different strokes. Fly evolved from there to use the dolphin kick rather than the whip kick.
The people who primarily do this learned how to swim butterfly that way. Back in the day there was no such stroke as butterfly. The stroke evolved from breaststroke. Back in the 'olden days' there was no rule that the elbows had to stay underwater in ***, so someone thought, "huh, maybe I can just recover both arms over the water." Turns out that was a much faster way to swim and perfectly legal with the wording of the rules at that time. At some point the rules were just modified to make *** and fly different strokes. Fly evolved from there to use the dolphin kick rather than the whip kick.
