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 ...
Parents
Former Member
Oh, No,
You have to be born a natural breaststroker? I'd never heard that you had to be born with certain genetics to be one stroke or the other. Are you sure? How was that figured out? I am not a breastroker, but I certainly do like the stroke and since I was above average swimming it, was I born an above average breaststroker, but not quite elite?
I was an above-average freestyler, then switched to backstroke and loved it, absolutely loved it, many records made, and especially only being able to see where I had been and not where I was going, gave more intrigue to it. And now I am a distance freestyler.
So was I born a natural backstroker but now am a natural distance freestyler? I'm not goading you here, I just did not know that we were born to swim one better than the other.:dunno:
Donna
Oh, No,
You have to be born a natural breaststroker? I'd never heard that you had to be born with certain genetics to be one stroke or the other. Are you sure? How was that figured out? I am not a breastroker, but I certainly do like the stroke and since I was above average swimming it, was I born an above average breaststroker, but not quite elite?
I was an above-average freestyler, then switched to backstroke and loved it, absolutely loved it, many records made, and especially only being able to see where I had been and not where I was going, gave more intrigue to it. And now I am a distance freestyler.
So was I born a natural backstroker but now am a natural distance freestyler? I'm not goading you here, I just did not know that we were born to swim one better than the other.:dunno:
Donna
