Why certain strokes?

Why are most of us good at certain strokes and not others? Is it genetics, body type, coaching, preference? And why are some of us good at long axis, but not short axis? And vice versa? Or why are we good at one short axis stroke, but not the other?
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  • Fort - what stroke is freestyle..... Fly? Backstroke? Butterfrog? Breaststroke? Sidestroke? or Crawl? or all of the above. Semantics, George! Freestyle is crawl. 99% of the time that's what people do in the freestyle events. In fact, my own observations from masters and USA-S meets is that it is a 100%. There is clearly no reason to swim like a frog ... except maybe to save your shoulders.
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  • Fort - what stroke is freestyle..... Fly? Backstroke? Butterfrog? Breaststroke? Sidestroke? or Crawl? or all of the above. Semantics, George! Freestyle is crawl. 99% of the time that's what people do in the freestyle events. In fact, my own observations from masters and USA-S meets is that it is a 100%. There is clearly no reason to swim like a frog ... except maybe to save your shoulders.
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