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Survival travel stroke: Alternating underwater arm stroke, one cycle for propulsion, one for a lift to stay on the surface. This style is slow but sustainable. [citation needed] Breast feet first strokes: With legs extended, use the arms with a pushing, flapping, clapping or uplifting motion. [citation needed]
Butterfly stroke Overhead shot of a swimmer performing the butterfly stroke Butterfly stroke, shortly before entering the water again; view from behind. The butterfly (shortened to fly [1]) is a swimming stroke swum on the chest, with both arms moving symmetrically, accompanied by the butterfly kick (also known as the "dolphin kick") along with the movement of the hips and chest.
The sidestroke allows the swimmer increased endurance because instead of working both arms and legs simultaneously in the same way, the side stroke uses them simultaneously but differently. [2] A swimmer tired of exercising one side can turn over and use the other, the change of action helping the limbs to recover. [3]
In backstroke, the arms contribute most of the forward movement. The arm stroke consists of two main parts: the power phase (consisting of three separate parts) and the recovery. [3] The arms alternate so that one arm is always underwater while the other arm is recovering. One complete arm turn is considered one cycle.
Medley swimming is a combination of four different swimming strokes (freestyle (usually front crawl), backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly) into one race. This race is either swum by one swimmer as individual medley ( IM ) or by four swimmers as a medley relay .
Ismail Zulfic fearlessly dives headfirst into the water at the Olympic pool Otoka, but that wasn't always the case.
In an IM (a.k.a. individual medley), you swim each of the four primary strokes back-to-back to switch up the stimulus on your bod and, ultimately, turn up your burn, suggests Gagne.
The trudgen is a swimming stroke sometimes known as the racing stroke, or the East Indian stroke. It is named after the English swimmer John Trudgen (1852–1902) [1] and evolved out of sidestroke. [2] One swims mostly upon one side, making an overhand movement, lifting the arms alternately out of the water.