The four different strokes of swimming

In swimming there are four main strokes freestyle (a.k.a front crawl), breast stroke, backstroke, and butterfly. Freestyle is most people’s fastest stroke but not always everyone’s best. Even though swimming has to do with who finishes first in the race form and technique are the keys to success in swimming and that’s usually what amateur swimmers ignore when racing an opponent and then end up getting disqualified for petty little things like a false start or a terrible flip turn. Back stroke and freestyle go hand in hand if you’re really good in freestyle you have a pretty good chance at being good in backstroke. But still back stroke is not exactly the same as freestyle for an example as you know backstroke is on your back and while the kicking and turn are the same as freestyle the pull is completely different. Butterfly requires a lot of ab movement and a lot of upper body movement. The whole key to this stroke is to use your abs for the kicking and you want to swim in one motion bringing your head up first to breathe, then your arms for the pull, then your legs which are being directed by your abs for the kick. As you can see the four strokes of swimming are very different and require different techniques.