I remember reading somewhere (could be this forum) that when you go to a pool in the U.S., you see mostly front crawl/freestyle swimmers, whereas in the UK, breaststroke is more popular. It will be interesting to know what is the most popular stroke in each country. For example, what about Canada? I suppose the same as the U.S., being so close? Other countries?
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I was stationed in Germany in the 1980's and heads-up breaststroke was very common. Just about every village had a swimming pool (indoors, 25 meters, tiled very warm and very clean). In addition to a shower, you had to wash your feet (fussgangerbad - a little shower for your feet ) just before entering the pool deck.
It was pretty frustrating swimming laps until someone pointed me to a schwimmverien (swimming team).
I am from Germany and I would love to have one of those foot thingies in our Y.My old pool had a device you had to push with your foot and it would spray anti-fungal stuff.
But swimming laps was pretty tricky-they had an 8 lane pool and used no lane lines-so it was pretty much a free for all. And they would have the diving boards(1m,3m and platform)going at various times-into the same pool.
I was stationed in Germany in the 1980's and heads-up breaststroke was very common. Just about every village had a swimming pool (indoors, 25 meters, tiled very warm and very clean). In addition to a shower, you had to wash your feet (fussgangerbad - a little shower for your feet ) just before entering the pool deck.
It was pretty frustrating swimming laps until someone pointed me to a schwimmverien (swimming team).
I am from Germany and I would love to have one of those foot thingies in our Y.My old pool had a device you had to push with your foot and it would spray anti-fungal stuff.
But swimming laps was pretty tricky-they had an 8 lane pool and used no lane lines-so it was pretty much a free for all. And they would have the diving boards(1m,3m and platform)going at various times-into the same pool.
