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	This swimmings-troke looks like the short Spanish stroke where the arms make a double overarmstroke which are pulled through fully whereas the legstroke is a modified scissor-kick. The combination of the arms and legs is short and the short gliding-phase is done when one floats on the chest.

 

	This swimming-stroke looks like the short Trudgeon (see the previous swimming-stroke) with the following differences: The legstroke is a scissor-kick followed by a crawlkick. The combination of the arms and legs is short.

 

	This swimming-stroke looks like the short Trudgeon (see first swimming-stroke on this page) where the legs make a closed scissor-kick.

 

	Looks like the short Trudgeon with the only difference that the legs make a narrow scissor-kick and the combination is semi-short.

 

	Looks like the short Trudgeon. However, the legs make a modified wide scissor-kick and the combination of the arms and legs is semi-short. Click on the film to see an animation of this swimming-stroke (opened in a pop-up)...

 

	This swimming-stroke looks like the short Trudgeon where the body is rolled from side to side (see drawing below). The arms make a double overarmstroke where both the trailing arm and the leading arm are pulled through fully. The legstroke consists of two (double) wide scissor-kicks. The combination of the arms and legs is short and a short gliding-phase is done on the end (on the chest). This swimming-stroke got rated at 7 but the author of this website gives it a 8.

 

	Veldkamp describes a trudgeon stroke for which he took his (short!) Northern kick as the basic swimming-stroke. When the trailing arm is put in we must roll on the chest. On that way both arms can be brought in front of the head alternately. The body position varies from 90° to 0° and that is more than what is commonly advised. The legstroke of Veldkamp differs a lot from the normal wide scissor-kick. The only difference between the short Trudgeon are the legs, because they keep almost stretched throughout the whole cycle. This swimming-stroke is reasonably to swim.