The latest threads clearly reveal that the vast majority of masters swimmers wish breaststroke did not exist (except Peter, Allen, Aquafeisty, and a possiblely experimenting SCY freestyler). So why does everyone hate breaststroke? :mad:
I'll go first. I hated it when I was young because it was too slow, I never learned how to do it right, and I never learned the wave action because it didn't exist when I was young. I can't seem do get the timing right now. And I have no excuse. Unlike my shoulder, my knees are fully intact. Not sure I have the gumption or time to put in 100,000 yards for a complete overhaul on a stroke I don't swim in meets. But I'd like to be able to fake it in IMs ...
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I think the women in Europe swim the breastroke to keep their eyes out of the chlorine full pool. Here are a few rules in the hotel spas: when in the sauna be it steam or just heat, go naked (boys, girls, men, ladies), when in the swimming pool, put on your bathing trunks and ladies put on your full attire, no topless, it is considered non hygienic and in poor taste. If you wear your swimming whatever into the sauna you will be seen as the true foreigner that you are. Take my word for it, got back a week ago. billy (naked in the sauna) fanstone.
P.S. I didn't take my gear so I purchased some cheapo swedes for 5 euros and solved my problem in swimming some short laps, and also will use them here for a quick 50 meters tomorrow when I hope they don't come off my face. Most of the time I go without eye protection cause I dive in the old style, on my belly.
I think the women in Europe swim the breastroke to keep their eyes out of the chlorine full pool. Here are a few rules in the hotel spas: when in the sauna be it steam or just heat, go naked (boys, girls, men, ladies), when in the swimming pool, put on your bathing trunks and ladies put on your full attire, no topless, it is considered non hygienic and in poor taste. If you wear your swimming whatever into the sauna you will be seen as the true foreigner that you are. Take my word for it, got back a week ago. billy (naked in the sauna) fanstone.
P.S. I didn't take my gear so I purchased some cheapo swedes for 5 euros and solved my problem in swimming some short laps, and also will use them here for a quick 50 meters tomorrow when I hope they don't come off my face. Most of the time I go without eye protection cause I dive in the old style, on my belly.
