Can you swim the breaststroke?

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I used to be able to hold my breath for about 1½ minutes when I was a kid, but due to lack of training and picking up smoking in the meantime, it's decreased to about 30-45 seconds.

As for swimming, I could do pretty much all the strokes except for butterfly (never learned), my technique was, however, never that good.... it's probably gotten worse since too, as I haven't been swimming on a regular basis since school...

Butterfly is the most tiresome style. Backstroke turn is the most difficult. You stay under the water facing up. I've swum for many years. I miss the people I used swim.

I can't swim at all. I was a slow learner, so I quit very early on. I very much dislike letting other people see me being bad at something.

I used to swim a lot, even taught swimming. I love the breast stroke. It's my favorite stroke.

I swim the breaststroke better than other styles. Can do butterfly, but I am not very good at it. In fact, one time I was trying to learn and the lifeguard jumped in to rescue me...thinking I was drowing I wasn't drowning, just looked like it because I was so ungraceful at the butterfly

It's the only stroke that really feels natural to me, everything else seems super strenuous and inefficient.

I recall doing it in gym class- we had to learn the 4 - breast,back, free tyle, and the butterfly.
Yea, it's hard because it seemed to take somewhat longer to reach the end of the pool,(then the others), but the mechanics of it seem the least unatural.

We swam each one the lenght of the pool, and then switched to another style as you reached the end of the pool, returning back, until all 4 were done.

I can do all 4 of the main strokes, I can do all of them pretty well except the butterfly, It is SOO physically demanding that stoke that I can barley do it for 25 meters (or 25 yards for an indoor pool).

I learned at a young age and I think visual and if you look at the motions it doesn't look that hard to recreate, I can understand if other people with AS can have trouble trying to learn the stokes due to the lack of physical cooridination. For example for all of the sport we see on TV all the time (Basketball, Football (American), Hockey, Soccer) I have o physical cooridination to play thouse types of sports. Yay!

No I'm a male. I don't have breasts to stroke.

Yes, it's the best one I can do.

I hold my breath and I kick my feet and I move my arms around.

I can't do breaststroke for love nor money. Except in reverse

I can do all the swimming styles such as breaststroke, butterfly, freestyle and backstroke although i wouldn't say i was brilliant at it though.