Have you ever meet any of these folks? That in itself should answer your own question!
Other than that:
A) Its not a "stroke" it was developed as a means to get divers to the side of the pool after completing their belly flops
B) Try and walk past one coming toward you on a sidewalk and see how their duckfooted gait will most likely cause them to kick your shin or step on your foot
C) They were so envious of the "beautiful" stroke they stole the dolphin kick from it...also hoping that they would be able to finish their races before everyone had left the bar after the meet.
D) There angry people in general...I can understand however because their parents never enrolled them in gymnastics where they could have done those wonderful landings off the balance bars and their duck feet actually be of benefit...instead they got tossed in a swimming pool and got teased their whole lives because of how their feet stick out of the water on backstroke
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That explains it then. I can't do breaststroke because I used to be a gymnast. :laugh2:
I agree with Wookiee. It's evilstroke. Plus, if you learned it in the 70s like I did, it is virtually impossible to do anything resembling modern breaststroke. And who wants to waste valuable training time learning?
Here's a thread about masters swimmers hating breaststroke: forums.usms.org/showthread.php.
And I'm pretty much the same way with fly, unless doing IM sets I try to avoid it. Although I'm finding out that the more I do it (even little bits), I'm getting a little better, and it isn't so bad. I read somewhere, maybe even on these forums, that there are breaststrokers and butterflyers, and it is rare to have someone like and be highly proficient at both.
I think quite a few breaststrokers are good at fly and vice versa. It might be too simple to say they are both short axis strokes but I think that has something to do with it. Another is that both have distinct timing issues and a body motion that undulates vertically.
I think backstrokers are rarely good breaststrokers.
Butterfroggers would rather be breaststrokers but they found it was faster by getting both arms over the water not under it on recovery.
Butterfly is the natural progression from getting off all fours to being able to stand up.
You must realize we all bad mouth breaststrokers. But you must realize it is done in fun. I am impressed by someone that can swim such a hard to swim stroke as breaststroke. If it was not for good breastrokers how could we have a good 4 stroke medley relay team.
A picture is worth a thousand words...
Thank you I had been searching for that picture for weeks. But my idea of the progression only went up and not back down.
