FRONTCRAWL  
 
 
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    PS: Swimming-strokes are derived based on their visual resemblance.



 

 

 

 

This swimming-stroke looks very much like the frontcrawl where the body is rolling from a horizontal position to a vertical position on the side. With this swimming-stroke the leading arm and the trailing arm make a full pull-through. Furthermore, the legstroke is a modified frog-kick.

Combination of arm and legs: long
Gliding : long period on the side



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Besides the breaststroke, frontcrawl, backcrawl and the butterfly stroke which are swum in contests, there's also the so-called polocrawl which is swum in waterpolo-contests. Its purpose is to move the ball fast around the water.

This swimming-stroke looks like the frontcrawl where the head keeps above the water at all times. On this way you can see in which direction you swimm, while the ball stays between the arms. By moving the arms to the left or right you can stear the ball.

 

This swimming-stroke is based on the frontcrawl where the arms stay under water. The legstroke is different but does one think of the legstroke of the frontcrawl.


Two pictures from the book of Corte [1819].

 

This swimming-stroke looks also like the frontcrawl and has a different legstroke just as the previous swimming-stroke.

Combination of arms and legs are just like a horse at full trot.


De crawol van Blache [1908].

 

Looks like the dog paddle, except with a very different combination of the arms and legs.


The Australian crawl according to the book of Senff and Scheffer.

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the frontcrawl where the arms wait for eachother at the back (next to the body). The legstroke is different compared with the legstroke of the frontcrawl.

 

The Japanese crawl looks also like the frontcrawl where the arms wait for eachother in front of the body instead of next to the body like with the German crawl.


Zes afbeeldingen uit de serie van de Japanese crawl
volgens het boek van Senff en Scheffer.

 

This is a very difficult swimming-stroke. It looks like the frontcrawl and the body is rolled to both sides where both arms do a full pull-through. The legstroke of this swimming-stroke is particular. That is because a dolphin-kick is made on each side and when one floats on the back while breathing.



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