FRONTCRAWL
Long Spanish stroke Long Trudgeon Single and double Spanish backstroke Double Coupe Short Spanish stroke Double Spanish stroke Old Spanish stroke Stroke of Löwenstrom Hungarian stroke Long Thrust Polocrawl Dog paddle Crawlol Australian crawl of Meijer German crawl Japanese crawl Fifth swimming-stroke (?)  PS: Swimming-strokes which are shown in bold  are being discussed on this page.

 

	This swimming-stroke looks a lot like the frontcrawl. The body position is rolling which means that the body moves from a horizontal position to the side in a vertical position. A full pull through is made by both arms. Furthermore, the legstroke is, as we call it, a modified frog-kick. Combination: long Gliding : about two seconds on the side. Click on the film to see an animation of this swimming-stroke (opened in a pop-up)...

 

	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). Click on the film to see an animation of this swimming-stroke (opened in a pop-up)...

 

	This swimming-stroke looks like the long Spanish stroke. The body position is a stable position on the back and the legstroke is a frog-kick. With the single Spanish backstroke one frog-kick is made and with the double Spanish backstroke two frog-kicks are made, one on each side.

 

	This swimming-stroke looks like the long Spanish stroke where the body rolls from a vertical position (90°) on the side to a horizontal (0°) position on the breast. The combination of the arms and legs is semi-long. This is a difficult swimming-stroke to swim. That is why it got rated at 6 on a scale of 10. Click here to see a graphical representation of this swimming-stroke...

 

	Looks like the long Spanish stroke but with a short gliding-phase on the chest. The combination of the arms and legs is short.

 

	Looks like the long Spanish stroke. The combination of the arms is short and long where a legstroke is made with every arm when it is pulled through. A gliding-phase is followed when one swims on the side and on the chest. Click on the film to see an animation of this swimming-stroke (opened in a pop-up)...

 

	This swimming-stroke looks like the long Spanish stroke where the arms make a double overarm(relay)stroke. The combination of the arms and legs is semi-long and a gliding-phase follows when on the chest with both arms down next to the body. Hand-über-hand swimming or the old Spanish stroke according to Brandt. Click on the film to see an animation of this swimming-stroke (opened in a pop-up)...

 

	This swimming-stroke looks like the long Spanish stroke where the legs alternate a frog-kick. To be exact; a half frog-kick per leg. So, one leg is kept straight while the other leg makes a half frog-kick.

 

	This swimming-stroke looks like the short Spanish stroke except with one legstroke per three or four armstrokes. Sometimes this swimming-stroke is swum without a legstroke.

 

	Looks like the long Spanish stroke where the body position rolls from the chest to the side. The arms make a double overarmstroke and the legs make two modified frog-kicks. The combination of the arms and legs is double long, all followed by a short gliding-phase with two arms in front of the body. On the left; the first part of the swimming-stroke and on the right the second part.