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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  • No it isn't. I learned *** stroke in the 70's and never swam competitively,so it was pretty basic. Learning *** as a survival stroke or in a non-competitive pollywog class is entirely different from doing it for years and years in a competitive team environment. Obviously, I was using some hyperbole but the change to today's modern *** does take a good bit of tinkering from the old days to perfect. It's still a lame stroke, done by lame people in lame events only intended to give real swimmers rest between the real stroke events.
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  • No it isn't. I learned *** stroke in the 70's and never swam competitively,so it was pretty basic. Learning *** as a survival stroke or in a non-competitive pollywog class is entirely different from doing it for years and years in a competitive team environment. Obviously, I was using some hyperbole but the change to today's modern *** does take a good bit of tinkering from the old days to perfect. It's still a lame stroke, done by lame people in lame events only intended to give real swimmers rest between the real stroke events.
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