I've done the very-slowly-backwards part, it amused the onlookers rather more than it did me. I think my crawl might be something nearer to side-stroke, strong kick with left leg while pulling back with left arm alternates with its mirror-image and I roll from side to side a lot, but I have trouble working out what to do with my legs in between times since they want to go rather faster than my arms do.
I can't figure out whether the breast-stroke kick should be done in-phase or out-of-phase with sweeping the arms round from in front of nose to parallel to forehead, but this doesn't really trouble me since I can't reliably keep either phase relation for as long as a length.
The stroke I find most pleasing is a sort of back-butterfly, if only because it relaxes my neck which I otherwise strain too much to keep out of the water; but it's not very practical in crowded pools, and I'm not quite as reliable as would be ideal at stopping before swimming the back of my head with some force into the ceramic tiles at the end of the pool.
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Date: 2006-07-05 09:21 pm (UTC)I can't figure out whether the breast-stroke kick should be done in-phase or out-of-phase with sweeping the arms round from in front of nose to parallel to forehead, but this doesn't really trouble me since I can't reliably keep either phase relation for as long as a length.
The stroke I find most pleasing is a sort of back-butterfly, if only because it relaxes my neck which I otherwise strain too much to keep out of the water; but it's not very practical in crowded pools, and I'm not quite as reliable as would be ideal at stopping before swimming the back of my head with some force into the ceramic tiles at the end of the pool.