Hi all, I'm new back into swimming after taking the last 14 or so years "off". When I was last swimming, the wave style breaststroke was really just coming into its own and I never fully got it down. I'm trying to train it now but I have a question--are people still pulling their hands out of the water with each stroke? These seems like a terrible waste of effort if you're just going to push back down into a streamline... Thanks for your thoughts!
Keith
I have to say that the one stroke that I don't feel has come completely back to me since getting back into the pool after a 13 year hiatus is the breaststroke. A lot of that has to do with my leg strength, I think. I have tree trunk legs as do many breaststrokers and my kick was a big part of whatever limited ability I possessed as an age grouper. I think working on the kick is a great place to start swimming breaststroke faster... That and learning the "wave action"...
I have to say that the one stroke that I don't feel has come completely back to me since getting back into the pool after a 13 year hiatus is the breaststroke. A lot of that has to do with my leg strength, I think. I have tree trunk legs as do many breaststrokers and my kick was a big part of whatever limited ability I possessed as an age grouper. I think working on the kick is a great place to start swimming breaststroke faster... That and learning the "wave action"...
