BREASTSTROKE  
 
 
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 = a difficult swimming-stroke to swim or impractical
 = means that this swimming-stroke never descripted clearly
 = the rating of the swimming-stroke (a rating of 8 is good to swim)
    PS: Swimming-strokes are derived based on their visual resemblance.



 

 

 

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the breaststroke but the body position is diagonal. The arms are brought in front under water where the trailing makes a wide half pull-through and the leading arm a normal half pull-through. The legstroke is a modified frog-kick and the combination of the arms and legs is long. A long gliding-phase completes the swimming-stroke.

This is a very good swimming-stroke to swim. That is why it got rated at 9 on a scale of 10.


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This swimming-stroke looks like the long seaman's stroke where the body position is also diagonal. The arms make a single overarmstroke where the trailing arm makes a full pull-through and the leading arm a half pull-through. The legstroke is a modified frog-kick and the combination of the arms and legs is long. The swimming-stroke is completed after a long gliding-phase (diagonal).


Three moments from the long stroke on the side.

 

Looks like the long seaman's stroke. The leading arm, however, keeps in front of the body at all time. The combination of the arms and legs is (semi-)long.

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the long seaman's stroke but here is the body position straight on the side. The arms are brought in front of the body under water where both arms make a half pull-through. The combination of the arms and legs is semi-long all followed by a long gliding-phase.



Click on the film to see an animation of this swimming-stroke (opened in a pop-up)...

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the long seaman's stroke where the combination of the arms and legs is semi-long. Because this is a very nice swimming-stroke to swim it got rated at 9 on a scale of 10, just like the long seaman's stroke.



Click on the film to see an animation of this swimming-stroke (opened in a pop-up)...

 


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