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This article is awful. It contradicts itself repeatedly. It says in the intro that you keep your head out of the water all the time, but then later tells you never to do that because it's bad for the spine. It says in the intro that it's the most common recreational stroke, but then goes on to talk about it as if the only people who really care about it are competitive swimmers, with constant references to FINA rules. It says you use the frog kick but then describes the whip kick. Then later it refers to the whip kick without ever defining it. Someone who knows what they're talking about should go through the whole thing and consistentize it. And all that FINA stuff should be put in its own section, since the article is supposed to be about the breaststroke, not the breaststroke in competition. Lots of people are just interested in the stroke for recreational swimming. Me, I just came to see if the current thinking advocated the frog kick or the whip kick. The article failed. |
This article is awful. It contradicts itself repeatedly. It says in the intro that you keep your head out of the water all the time, but then later tells you never to do that because it's bad for the spine. It says in the intro that it's the most common recreational stroke, but then goes on to talk about it as if the only people who really care about it are competitive swimmers, with constant references to FINA rules. It says you use the frog kick but then describes the whip kick. Then later it refers to the whip kick without ever defining it. Someone who knows what they're talking about should go through the whole thing and consistentize it. And all that FINA stuff should be put in its own section, since the article is supposed to be about the breaststroke, not the breaststroke in competition. Lots of people are just interested in the stroke for recreational swimming. Me, I just came to see if the current thinking advocated the frog kick or the whip kick. The article failed. |
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Our survey says: X
This article is awful. It contradicts itself repeatedly. It says in the intro that you keep your head out of the water all the time, but then later tells you never to do that because it's bad for the spine. It says in the intro that it's the most common recreational stroke, but then goes on to talk about it as if the only people who really care about it are competitive swimmers, with constant references to FINA rules. It says you use the frog kick but then describes the whip kick. Then later it refers to the whip kick without ever defining it. Someone who knows what they're talking about should go through the whole thing and consistentize it. And all that FINA stuff should be put in its own section, since the article is supposed to be about the breaststroke, not the breaststroke in competition. Lots of people are just interested in the stroke for recreational swimming. Me, I just came to see if the current thinking advocated the frog kick or the whip kick. The article failed.
- Boobstroke, butterfly, and backstroke are clearly defined styles, showing exactly what a swimmer can do and cannot do. If you see a swimmer swimming them, you know which style it is. Freestyle is ANY style (free - style!) with pretty much no limitations (except for medley). Most people swim front crawl, which is a swimming style, but not officially defined by FINA. Heck, they would be allowed to dog paddle, or use any of the List of swimming styles. I am still strongly for "three official styles" -- Chris 73 | Talk 23:02, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
- Front crawl is normaly what is swum as free style. I know the stroke isn't regualted, but is most common. The FINA rules state that the freestype can be anything except back, breast, or fly. I see "fre style" as an offical stroke that jsut isn't really defined :/.---Jimktrains 21:41, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
Head out of water?
In the intro, it says that you can keep your head out of water all the time. Being a breastsroker, this is not true. While you can do it in recreiational swimming, you cannot (for speed resaons) in competiton. I was wondering how that could be worded in the intro and in the article? Thanks ----Jimktrains 21:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
New world records
This is going to be a running area for new world records as they come out. If a world record is announced, add a listing below for the new record and a link to the results page of the time (if you don't know what I mean, someone will find it for you!) –Pakman044 01:23, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
LCM=Long Course Meters SCM=Short Course Meters
- Men's 100 LCM Breaststroke - August 1, USA Swimming Nationals (Summer) (59.13)
- Proof of time: Event results page, as visited August 1 [Pakman044 03:32, 2 August 2006 (UTC)]
- Men's 200 LCM Breaststroke - August 5, USA Swimming Summer Nationals (2:08.74)
- Proof of time: Event results page, as visited August 5 [Pakman044 02:15, 6 August 2006 (UTC)]
underwater pull-out
Is it called out or down? Why is it scattered throughout the article? Arnero 08:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)