You know you're a breaststroker when...

You know you're a GOOD breaststroker when you can cheat and get away with it! Heh-hum (muffled sound being made) Roque Santos :p

You know your a breaststroker when you naturally stand with your feet turned out and you find squatting a very comfortable position.

LOL! Do you swim mostly *** in your workouts? It's got to be a technique/practice issue because to swim *** quickly is very exhausting. Therefore I would assume you have a fair amount of endurance that should serve you well in a freestyle race. Anyhow, maybe that's why I'm a free fanatic and you're the *** man.

Rich, you are absolutely a breastroker if it is faster than your free. Guess what? My backstroke was ALWAYS faster than my free until 1995 and I swam since the early 60s. My 100 back was a 1:01.63 and my 100 free was a 1:06. Big time discrepancy there, but not anymore. :groovy: This is why I never entered any freestyle races; I would have gotten creamed!!! donna

LOL! Do you swim mostly *** in your workouts? It's got to be a technique/practice issue because to swim *** quickly is very exhausting. Therefore I would assume you have a fair amount of endurance that should serve you well in a freestyle race. Anyhow, maybe that's why I'm a free fanatic and you're the *** man. heheMatt I'm bemused...I'm no Freestyler. I can swim distance but not that fast. I've been mostly hitting free to get extra cardio fitness in, and ease up on my knee and back...My FR times, all from push. 50FR :32; 100FR 1:25; 200FR 2:46 (OK the 200 was from a dive at NEM--but still) My BR times: 50BR :35ish; 100 1:20ish; 200 3:00ish (With goggle malfunction)

I was, for years, MUCH faster at BR than FR. In fact, my first two 1650 swims at USMS Nationals were done BR. When I first started masters swimming in the late 80s, I couldn't even complete a 500 EZ warmup swim FR but could easily swim 3000 yds of BR at a pretty good pace. Now, after visiting the appropriate gurus in the high mountains of Nepal (and, of course, swimming a bunch of FR) I can say that my FR is faster than the BR for all distances. Am I a better man for it? -- mel

Sure you are, Mel, now you have two strokes you can swim and they are better distinguished now. I think sometimes a person just has a "thing" for a particular stroke and because of that "thing" it just gets developed really well. I know being a backstroker, and 400 IMer, I just never did much free work and thus, was poor at free. Still poor at it time-wise, now try to swim it forever with mega-distance. donna

Actually, Donna, I think I'm just a breaststroker gone bad. Converted to the dark side by the overwhelming hordes of swimmers who think frogs were invented purely for Cajun cooking... -- mel

...when you're envied by all the other swimmers. ...when you have huge diamond calves. ...when you're pretty much the sexiest ever.

Actually, Donna, I think I'm just a breaststroker gone bad. Converted to the dark side by the overwhelming hordes of swimmers who think frogs were invented purely for Cajun cooking... -- mel I thought that saying was a breastroker gone wild because we all know that frogs don't swim much, they hop and leap everywhere they go, especially into the frying pan (stupid frogs). Gosh, maybe they could help us all with our starts!!!:rofl: donna