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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.
In ordinary swimming on the right side, the left arm moves gently in the water, almost at rest. [3] Then, when the used arm becomes tired, the swimmer turns on the other side, and the left arm works while the right arm rests. [3] The legs move in opposite directions with legs bent, and straighten as they come together.
Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, [1] with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual ...
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.
Ismail Zulfic fearlessly dives headfirst into the water at the Olympic pool Otoka, but that wasn't always the case.
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 .
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.