Who's doing both back and *** at masters meets? Who's good at both? Or neither? Or good at one, but not the other?
Ande thinks it's rare to be good at both. Frank thinks it's somewhat unusual, but not rare or impossible. You vote. Multiple choices permissible. Comments appreciated.
Personally, I suck at breastroke. I'm decent at back. I think they are usually mutually exclusive. Most breaststrokers I know suck at back and vice versa. Not sure if this is explained by the disparate body types that typically are associated with the stokes, or by ankle flexibility or it's just a fluke. (I have a breaststroke body type and flexible ankles and still can't do it at all. I do not have a backstroker's body type, but have hyperflexible elbows and shoulders and seem passable at it.) I clearly need a breaststroke clinic. Would be happy to go to one. Or get private lessons.
Obviously there are plenty of people good at both (same people that are good at all four strokes ... jerks!). I am a free/fly girl myself (in case no one caught on to that) my back is okay, but not great, my breaststroke is horrific (in case no one caught on to that either).
Like your team Fort, we don't really have many breaststrokers. Maybe 2? At least that would claim it as their primary stroke, we are full of flyers and backstrokers ... Of the 2 "breaststrokers" neither one is a backstroker at all and actually both hate it ... hmmm ....
I'm actually not too good at back OR ***! I'm a fly/free girl myself! I think that is true for a lot of flyers. Unfortunately, due to shoulder problems, I can't do too much fly anymore. So.....I'm working on my back and *** as a result. I actually like them now. Sometimes its good to try something new anyways. Who says you can't teach an old dawg new tricks! :woot:
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I'm actually not too good at back OR ***! I'm a fly/free girl myself! I think that is true for a lot of flyers. Unfortunately, due to shoulder problems, I can't do too much fly anymore. So.....I'm working on my back and *** as a result. I actually like them now. Sometimes its good to try something new anyways. Who says you can't teach an old dawg new tricks! :woot:
I'm not any of the combos (S)he-Man listed. I'm a life-long fly/back-er. Although I've not completely averse to freestyle sprints. I hope Beth is right that you can sometime teach an old dawg new tricks. Maybe the next shoulder injury, I'll go to my breaststroke clinic. :D
P.S. Apparently, both my secret nemesis and my twin sister are free/flyers. Scarey!
Like a lot of you I am awful at ***/good at back. Growing up I was good at both back and *** until I was 13. I always swam both at meets and still have various summer league pool and team records in them both. It's funny to see my name next to anything breaststroke related. I am making a good effort to swim more breaststroke in practice to help out my 400 IM this year!
I'm actually not too good at back OR ***! I'm a fly/free girl myself! I think that is true for a lot of flyers. Unfortunately, due to shoulder problems, I can't do too much fly anymore. So.....I'm working on my back and *** as a result. I actually like them now. Sometimes its good to try something new anyways. Who says you can't teach an old dawg new tricks! :woot:
Swimr4life
"The older I get, the faster I was."
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Me too Beth! Since you are Fort's twin and she is my big sister, that makes us family, too, right? I'm only good at sdk, so the 50 back is alright, I'm working on making it better, partly because it is good for my shoulder. I used to not like back (have always liked it more than *** though) but now I'm starting to like it more ...
I am a distance freestyler at present but I enjoy doing everything and I am equally as bad or good at fly/back/***. I guess that makes me an ok IMer!
Donna:joker:
Yea! Fly/ Free combo rules! :groovy:
I stink at back. :shakeshead:
My *** has felt bad recently in practice. And as a masters I don't enjoy swimming anything over a 50 *** in a meet.
From what I've seen over the years, it's rare to find a back/ breaststroker (not impossible). It's certainly not one of the more standard combos like fly/ free. Sure one can find examples of the back/ breaststrokers. But my guess is you'll find exponentially more free/ flyers; ***/ IMers; free/ backers; name your combo.
