Originally posted by Blue Horn
For those that think breaststroke is easy, you aren't doing it right. When swum correctly it is as difficult or harder than butterfly. Try a 20 x 100 (LCM) on the 1:30 and tell me that breaststoke is a lazy stroke.
Oh my misguided brother in Maize & Blue, do my ears deceive me? You are arguing that we should take the *** stroke more seriously because of the suffering necessary to swim it almost as fast as the other four strokes?
Oh how mistaken I have been all these years, if that were true. I always thought the purpose of conditioning and stroke improvement was to be able to swim at the same rate of speed more EASILY and spending less energy to do so. Then, when the day of the race arrives and I push myself to my limits, I will be suffering to swim FASTER. In particular, I have spent many hours trying to learn an easy and relaxed butterfly. This is so I can chose how far I swim and how fast I swim this stroke. How foolish I have been.
You are telling me the Tao of the *** stroke is to make it hurt while you are swimming. If you do so, then you will almost be able to swim it on an interval that would be no problem for the other strokes.
EGAD! I think I liked it better when the *** stroke advocates filled the web pages of this discussion space with their lyrical panegyrics to the beauty and esthetic pleasure of swimming's most eccentric stroke.
Matt
Originally posted by Blue Horn
For those that think breaststroke is easy, you aren't doing it right. When swum correctly it is as difficult or harder than butterfly. Try a 20 x 100 (LCM) on the 1:30 and tell me that breaststoke is a lazy stroke.
Oh my misguided brother in Maize & Blue, do my ears deceive me? You are arguing that we should take the *** stroke more seriously because of the suffering necessary to swim it almost as fast as the other four strokes?
Oh how mistaken I have been all these years, if that were true. I always thought the purpose of conditioning and stroke improvement was to be able to swim at the same rate of speed more EASILY and spending less energy to do so. Then, when the day of the race arrives and I push myself to my limits, I will be suffering to swim FASTER. In particular, I have spent many hours trying to learn an easy and relaxed butterfly. This is so I can chose how far I swim and how fast I swim this stroke. How foolish I have been.
You are telling me the Tao of the *** stroke is to make it hurt while you are swimming. If you do so, then you will almost be able to swim it on an interval that would be no problem for the other strokes.
EGAD! I think I liked it better when the *** stroke advocates filled the web pages of this discussion space with their lyrical panegyrics to the beauty and esthetic pleasure of swimming's most eccentric stroke.
Matt
