In what order have you learned the different strokes?
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Of the 4 main strokes, is it safe to assume most people learned the breaststroke first? It seems to me the easiest to learn and was my first. Perhaps bufferfly is the last to be learned for most people?
Or maybe I'm not quite right?
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I don't remember what stroke I was taught first - it seems to me those early swim lessons covered a whole lot of things at once, but maybe that's distance clouding the view. Didn't learn 'fly until I was 43/44 years old.
I'm told that kids are taught front crawl first here in North America, while in Europe it's *** stroke first. My experiences in three U.K. and one German pool would seem to suggest that is or was the case. In the Munich pool, I was one of only three swimming front crawl in a very large crowd of *** strokers.
One of the pools I swim in here has a large contingent of regulars of Oriental (maybe Chinese) origin and they nearly all swim *** stroke for most their laps, so I'm guessing that is/was true of parts of the far east as well.
I don't remember what stroke I was taught first - it seems to me those early swim lessons covered a whole lot of things at once, but maybe that's distance clouding the view. Didn't learn 'fly until I was 43/44 years old.
I'm told that kids are taught front crawl first here in North America, while in Europe it's *** stroke first. My experiences in three U.K. and one German pool would seem to suggest that is or was the case. In the Munich pool, I was one of only three swimming front crawl in a very large crowd of *** strokers.
One of the pools I swim in here has a large contingent of regulars of Oriental (maybe Chinese) origin and they nearly all swim *** stroke for most their laps, so I'm guessing that is/was true of parts of the far east as well.
