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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  • Former Member
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    Originally Posted by Rob Copeland forums.usms.org/.../viewpost.gif I get it now. This is one of those British versus American things. The crown colonies prefer the “Australian Crawl” while those of us in the US of A prefer to be in the land of the “Free”. ...plus tax... ;) Actually, the first book I ever read about swimming (and from which I learned how to swim back in the mid '50s) was Johnny Weissmuller's book. Title: "Swimming the Australian Crawl".
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  • Former Member
    Former Member
    Originally Posted by Rob Copeland forums.usms.org/.../viewpost.gif I get it now. This is one of those British versus American things. The crown colonies prefer the “Australian Crawl” while those of us in the US of A prefer to be in the land of the “Free”. ...plus tax... ;) Actually, the first book I ever read about swimming (and from which I learned how to swim back in the mid '50s) was Johnny Weissmuller's book. Title: "Swimming the Australian Crawl".
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