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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Of all the swimming styles, or ‘strokes’, breathing seems easier while doing the breaststroke. ‘Breaststroke’, unlike ‘breathstroke’, hardly trips off the tongue either.
I don’t know any websites but front crawl just like breath stroke is all about … Breath stroke you breath on every stroke, front crawl every three to four …
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Refines the strokes of freestyle, backstroke, and breathstroke and works to gain endurance. Advanced safety skills are taught. ...
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I can comfortably run a sub 2hr 16miles and (don’t laugh) I can easily swim 2000+m breathstroke. I am a regular gym goer as well. ...
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Back in the 60s the swimmers hadn’t yet discovered the fastest way of swimming breathstroke so they swam the way you did, now swimmers prefer the new way, ...
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Peter, that’s brilliant. It would appear that the breast stroke is indeed characterized by a very prominent, abrupt breath of air during its execution. And, if I remember my swim strokes properly, the head stays submerged during the first stroking motion only to emerge for that breath in the second stroking motion. Could it be that swim instructors informally refer to the second stroke as the “breath stroke”? ...and that might indirectly lead others to rename the entire operation as the breath stroke? That would be my main theory.
My second theory is what I refer to as the “white meat” theory; Much as some choose to refer to certain chicken parts as white meat, perhaps some have also chosen to rename a certain swim style as “the breath stroke.” :-)
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I can attest from personal experience that when I first learned the breast stroke, I thought it was the breath stroke for exactly the reason suggested in the first two quotations – it is relatively easy to breathe.
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