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



 

 

 

 

This swimming-stroke looks like on the side: long where the body position is straight on the side. The arms make a single overarmstroke where the trailing arm is pulled through fully and the leading arm is pulled through half. The legstroke is a wide scissor-kick and the combination of the arms and legs is long. The gliding-phase is about two seconds on the side.


Five phases of the long Northern kick seen of aside. The last moment of this swimming-stroke is repeated as seen from above.

 

Looks like the long Northern kick. The legstroke is a wide scissor-kick followed by some crawl-kicks.

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the long Northern kick but the legstroke is somewhat different. That is because the legs are hardly bend, but are moved away from each other pretty much. Both arms make a wide half pull-through.

 

This swimming-stroke has the following properties:

  • Looks like the long Northern kick.
  • The leading arm is pulled through fully until it reaches the thigh.
  • The combination of the arms and legs is long or almost long.
  • The legstroke deviates from the normal scissor-kick because the thigh of the lower leg keeps in extension of the body.

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the long Northern kick. The body position is straight on the side. The arms make a single overarmstroke where both the trailing arm and the leading arm make a full pull-through.

The legstroke is a wide scissor-kick and the combination of the arms and legs is short. With this swimming-stroke there is hardly no gliding-phase.



 

Looks like the long Northern kick except that the body position is diagonal. The armstrokes and the legstroke alternate. To be precise; first the trailing arm is pulled over and pulled through, then the leading arm is pulled through and brought in front again. Finally, the legstroke is made. In short:

  • Trailing arm
  • Leading arm
  • Legstroke
All done separately.

Because the armstrokes and the legstroke alternate there is no combination of the arms and legs.

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the long Northern kick. The leading arm makes a full pull-through and the legstroke is a narrow scissor-kick.


One moment from the Coupe Indienne of Blache.

 

Looks like the long Northern kick except the leading arm keeps in front of the body during the whole cycle.

 

This swimming-stroke looks like the long Northern kick. The leading arm, however, makes a full pull-through and the trailing arm is bend when moving in front of the body. Finally, the legs make a very wide scissor-kick.



 

This swimming-stroke looks also like the long Northern kick but an extra legstroke is made when the trailing arm is moved over in front of the body.

 

This swimming-stroke looks also like the long Northern kick where the legstroke is a combination of a scissor-kick and an inverted scissor-kick. The inverted scissor-kick is made during the overarmstroke of the trailing arm, just like with the short Northern kick. The combination of the arms and legs are long and short.

Six moments from the double Northern kick with scissor-kick and inverted scissor-kick. In the first and fourth drawing you see the swimmer of aside. In the remaining drawings you can see the upper body of aside and the lower body from above.

 

Looks like the long Northern kick except that the combination of the arms and legs are semi-long.

 

The last swimming-stroke in this serie is called the kata-nuki, a Japanese swimming-stroke which is officially called the kata-nukite hitoe-noshi. This stroke looks also like the long Northern-kick. The trailing arm makes a full pull-through where the arm skims over the water-surface when it is moved in front of the body. Because of this it is a graceful swimming-stroke.

The leading arm makes also a full pull-through. The legstroke is a noshi-kick, just like with the morote-noshi and the combination of the arms and legs is semi-long.

The meaning of the Japanese words of this swimming-stroke means:

  • kata means in this respect shoulder
  • nukite means overarmstroke.
  • hitoe means single, alone or better said: with one hand. I.e. the arms alternate.
  • noshi means kick



 


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