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    PS: Swimming-strokes are derived based on their visual resemblance.



 

 

 

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the long Spanish stroke where the body position is rolling from a horizontal position to a vertical position on the side. The arms make a double overarmstroke which means that the trailing- and the leading arm making a full pull-through. The legstroke is a modified scissor-kick.

The combination of the arms and legs is long and the gliding-period is long (about two seconds).



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This swimming-stroke looks like the long Trudgeon where the body position is rolling from a horizontal position to a vertical position on the side. The arms make a double overarmstroke which means that the trailing- and the leading arm are making a full pull-through.

The legs make a scissor-kick followed by some crawl-kicks familiar of the frontcrawl. The combination of the arms and legs is long, all followed by a long gliding-phase on the side (about 2 seconds).

In the past this swimming-stroke was the greatest long distance stroke which was swum while crossing the English Channel.



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This swimming-stroke looks like the long Trudgeon with the only difference that the combination of the arms and legs is semi-short.

 

This swimming-stroke looks also like the long Trudgeon, however, the legstroke is a closed scissor-kick and the combination of the arms and legs is long.



 

Looks like the long Trudgeon but the body rolls slightly. The legstroke is peculiar. It is a wide scissor-kick with virtually stretched legs.

 

This swimming-stroke looks also like the long Trudgeon with the only difference that the legs make a noshi-kick familiar of the hitoe-noshi and the morote-noshi.

 

A simple variant on the long Trudgeon is the Trudgeon of Billington. Peculiar is the combination of the arms and legs because the legstroke is made during the rest-period of the arms when the body rolls on the side.

 

This swimming-stroke sounds difficult but it really isn't. At least, if you master the short Trudgeon and the long Trudgeon. The double Trudgeon of Boisseau is a combination of the two swimming-strokes where both are swum at one side (unilateral).



 

Looks like the long Trudgeon but the legs make a frog/scissor-kick. This means that the legs are pulled up just like with the breaststroke for the first part when a fluent transition to a scissor-kick follows.



 

The last swimming-stroke on this page is the stroke of Buchfelder. This swimming-stroke looks like the long Trudgeon and the body position rolls from a horizontal position to a vertical position on the side. The arms make a single overarmstroke where the trailing arm makes a full pull through and the leading arm an half pull through.

The legstroke has a deviating scissor-kick all followed by a long gliding-phase on the side for about 2 seconds. The combination of the arms and legs is long.

 


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