Why does breaststroke get a bad rap?

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Other than it being "slow", what is with all the breaststroke haters? Just curious because I happen to think it's a beautifully powerful stroke.
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  • I really wouldn't call it a stroke. A stroke generally has one, maybe two, methods or ways of doing it correctly. I have yet to see any two people do this stroke the same way. Therefore, it is really a collection of somewhat similar swimming actions not otherwise classified. And, to everyone else's point, if you learned it in the 1970s, completely impossible to change.
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  • I really wouldn't call it a stroke. A stroke generally has one, maybe two, methods or ways of doing it correctly. I have yet to see any two people do this stroke the same way. Therefore, it is really a collection of somewhat similar swimming actions not otherwise classified. And, to everyone else's point, if you learned it in the 1970s, completely impossible to change.
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