Which stroke easiest to learn, which easiest to swim WELL?
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Do you agree that the stroke that was the easiest (or first) for you to learn may well not be the stroke that you eventually swim the best?
So which stroke was the easiest for you learn?
Which do you find easiest to swim to near perfection?
I learned breaststroke the first but have never worked on improving it--unlike the other strokes, it doesn't seem to be so complicated. Freestyle seems to have infinite room for improvement?
Do you agree that the stroke that was the easiest (or first) for you to learn may well not be the stroke that you eventually swim the best?
So which stroke was the easiest for you learn?
Which do you find easiest to swim to near perfection?
I learned breaststroke the first but have never worked on improving it--unlike the other strokes, it doesn't seem to be so complicated. Freestyle seems to have infinite room for improvement?
My experience is similar. As a 9-10 age-grouper, I learned breaststroke most easily and was most competitive in it, probably because so few of the other kids could do it legally. At junior-high age, my breaststroke was less strong in comparison to the other kids my age, but was still good enough to make my IM competitive. By the time I got to HS, however, my breaststroke had slipped even more. Today is it by far my least competitive stroke. This may be a body structure issue. I am naturally very thin and don't seem to easily grow the kind of bulky fast-twitch muscle that seems to be a prerequisite for a competitive breaststroke. That doesn't matter for a boy at 10 years old, but it sure does after puberty.
Do you agree that the stroke that was the easiest (or first) for you to learn may well not be the stroke that you eventually swim the best?
So which stroke was the easiest for you learn?
Which do you find easiest to swim to near perfection?
I learned breaststroke the first but have never worked on improving it--unlike the other strokes, it doesn't seem to be so complicated. Freestyle seems to have infinite room for improvement?
My experience is similar. As a 9-10 age-grouper, I learned breaststroke most easily and was most competitive in it, probably because so few of the other kids could do it legally. At junior-high age, my breaststroke was less strong in comparison to the other kids my age, but was still good enough to make my IM competitive. By the time I got to HS, however, my breaststroke had slipped even more. Today is it by far my least competitive stroke. This may be a body structure issue. I am naturally very thin and don't seem to easily grow the kind of bulky fast-twitch muscle that seems to be a prerequisite for a competitive breaststroke. That doesn't matter for a boy at 10 years old, but it sure does after puberty.
