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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Ever tried to pass a rec swimmer during lap swim time doing their verison of breastroke??
Super wide kick...swimming head up...not even close to putting it in the water...plodding down the lane in the middle of it... and they get annoyed when you pass them.
Breastroke should be in the same league as noodlers = pool space wasters.
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.
I should have clarified this......
I learned to swim the *** stroke the way it was taught in the 70's,but never had the opportunity to swim competitively
because there were no programs in place where I grew up,neither HS/college or beyond(rural Germany).
I also took a very long break in my swimming and probably started from scratch when I got back in the pool 2 years ago.
I could have learned any stroke, but *** stroke felt like the right when I tried it.
I see many people at my pool struggling with it because they swim it incorrectly-
we even have one gentleman who seems to move backward because his timing is off-
but, bless his heart, he keeps at it!I have to bite my tongue to not go over and help him out.....
Once in a while someone comes in and just nails it, and you can tell right away that that is "their"stroke.
Ever tried to pass a rec swimmer during lap swim time doing their verison of breastroke??
Super wide kick...swimming head up...not even close to putting it in the water...plodding down the lane in the middle of it... and they get annoyed when you pass them.
Breastroke should be in the same league as noodlers = pool space wasters.
You are the type of swimmer I try to give a swift kick as a pass you by doing the *** stroke.:duel:
THAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH BREASTSTROKERS they hog the lane, and block the real swimmers.
You are the type of swimmer I try to give a swift kick as a pass you by doing the *** stroke.:duel:
