Which swimming strokes can you do?

[Melinda]

Just asking like.


My first ever poll may follow. Or not.

 

[internetstalker]

breast stroke
front crawl
butterfly
doggy paddle
backstroke

 

[spring-peeper]

breast stroke
front crawl
butterfly
doggy paddle
backstroke

those plus:

sidestroke
elementary backstoke
and my favourite - breast stroke (used to compete)

 

[Rollem]

front crawl
back stroke
breast stroke
doggy paddle
skulling
my version of butterfly

 

[quimcunx]

I can do
the backstroke, mostly,
A sort of breaststroke with head aloft and legs ineffectually twirling in the water (is that doggy paddle?),
doggy paddle,
a rubbish attempt at the crawl,
sidestroke
floating,
sinking, and,
squidstroke.

ooh, and I can do a sort of combo of backstroke and crawl.

 

[cesare]

Poll!

(I want to be able to tick them all )

Butterfly is my weakest.

 

[spring-peeper]

squidstroke????

 

[DotCommunist]

Doggy paddle.

I have my 10 meter certificate. That is sufficient. I don't like swimming.

 

[Melinda]

Poll launched.

Squid stroke?!

 

[DotCommunist]

can we get the tiresome breast stroking gags out of the way early pls. thankyou.

 

[cesare]

You missed some out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_swimming_styles

 

[zenie]

Breat stroke and doggy paddle. I can do a backstroke too but not the arms over the head.

My arms go weird when I do a front crawl, keep meaning to sign up for swimming lessons.....

 

[Melinda]

You missed some out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_swimming_styles

You made up that squid shit!

 

[tarannau]

All of them, although my butterfly is more like a moth flapping ineptly in water.

 

[cesare]

You made up that squid shit!

It wasn't me that said squid! Not guilty *looks at quimcunx*

 

[quimcunx]

Having looked at wiki I can't do the sidestroke after all, I thought it was like the breaststroke but looking sideways.

Squidstroke is when you are on your back and use your arms and legs like a squid, obviously.

 

[cesare]

Sidestroke's probably the easiest of the lot tbh, but it is slow.

 

[internetstalker]

Having looked at wiki I can't do the sidestroke after all, I thought it was like the breaststroke but looking sideways.

Squidstroke is when you are on your back and use your arms and legs like a squid, obviously.

thats the elementary backstoke

 

[Melinda]

All of them, although my butterfly is more like a moth flapping ineptly in water.

Butterfly option is sorting the wheat from the chaff.

 

[kyser_soze]

All of them, although my butterfly is more like a moth flapping ineptly in water.

^^ This

Altho mine is more along the lines of 'fish out of bowl and getting about as far'...it's a future olympic technique I tells ye.

 

[spring-peeper]

Sidestroke's probably the easiest of the lot tbh, but it is slow.

Before they invented front crawl, they used to race the sidestroke. As front crawl gained in popularity and the speed increased, sidestroke was replaced front crawl.

 

[quimcunx]

thats the elementary backstoke

No it's not. In the backstroke you lie on your back and essentially move your arms in a windmill motion and your feet up and down a little.

In squidstroke you start with legs straight and together and arms down by your side then move both arms and legs away from the centre line of your body and then back again at the same time.

Like a squid.

 

[Melinda]

I cant breast stroke I sink.

I rock out the front crawl and breast stroke though.

 

[kyser_soze]

Like you're making an angel pattern in ths now quimcunx?

 

[kyser_soze]

I cant breast stroke I sink.

I rock out the front crawl and breast stroke though.

?????

 

[cesare]

Before they invented front crawl, they used to race the sidestroke. As front crawl gained in popularity and the speed increased, sidestroke was replaced front crawl.

I didn't know that, cheers. Makes sense, natural adaptation.

 

[quimcunx]

Like you're making an angel pattern in ths now quimcunx?

You're not really lifting your arms up that high, but yes.

 

[spring-peeper]

elementary back is just like the breaststroke, but on your back

 

[quimcunx]

elementary back is just like the breaststroke, but on your back

Not according to my understanding of wiki.

Back
Backstroke (also known as back crawl)
Elementary backstroke
Both arms move synchronized with a small synchronized kick. This is also sometimes known as the Lifesaving Kick
Inverted breaststroke
Similar to elementary backstroke, but with a breaststroke kick.

Squidstroke is mine!

 

[Melinda]

Squidstroke is mine!

The Quimstar earlier today: