Swimming question

Amprodude

If you can do the 4 different strokes backstroke, breaststroke freestyle and butterfly well in normal pool but can't thread water, would you be in big trouble if you fell into open sea or would your swimming strokes like the breaststroke keep you afloat or help situation? I never learned to thread water but can do all 4 strokes in pool which is 2meters deep well. Reason I ask is I was jet skiing recently enough and wondered if I did fall in would I be in trouble? I am not afraid of water but ive no sea or lake swimming experience. I would like to ask all the experts and experienced guys here.


Thanks.

mad m

If you fell into the sea, all you would have to do is scull a bit, you would be very buoyant in sea without much threading water anyway. Lake is different. Once you can keep afloat your sorted.....

It's the initial feeling that you can't stand up that will freak most people out.

okane1

If you can do breaststroke, you should be able to thread the water. Threading the water is essentially breaststroke kick in the vertical plane.

im invisible

Ok, total noob here, or whatever they call them in swimming circles... Is 'freestyle' an actual stroke? Or 'just however you want to swim it'?
Also which would swim, in open water, 100 metres, the fastest?
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I would go for backstroke to be the best long distance stroke, but for 100 metres flat out which would win?

Amprodude

im invisible wrote: »

Ok, total noob here, or whatever they call them in swimming circles... Is 'freestyle' an actual stroke? Or 'just however you want to swim it'?
Also which would swim, in open water, 100 metres, the fastest?
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I would go for backstroke to be the best long distance stroke, but for 100 metres flat out which would win?

You should have began a new thread, it's a bit off topic.

Freestyle is the front crawl. Front crawl is the fastest as far as I know. With me my front crawl is the fastest followed by my butterfly and breaststroke is my slowest.

Amprodude

okane1 wrote: »

If you can do breaststroke, you should be able to thread the water. Threading the water is essentially breaststroke kick in the vertical plane.

I can do breaststroke, I had an instructor to teach it to me months back and regularly practice it but my problem is I've never swam in very deep water but my legs don't tip the ground anyway when doing breaststroke.

If I stay stationary in water using-my breaststroke technique, could you say that you are then threading water?

okane1

Freestyle is not front crawl. In a freestyle (FS) swimming event/race, you can swim any of the four strokes. As the fastest time wins a race, 99% of the time you would swim front crawl. Sometimes you many swim a different stroke, the reason may be to practice race pacing in a competitive environment.

Front crawl is the fastest stroke. In general you have constant propulsion. It is also the most efficient and you burn the least number of calories compared to the other three strokes. This is the reason FC is used during OW swims.

In relation to threading the water, one type is breaststroke legs in the vertical position. This will work but you will be bobbing in the water. A better technique is doing single breaststroke legs, working alternative. This is called egg beater, used during water polo games and most OW swimmers. You are staple in the water.

Amprodude

okane1 wrote: »

Freestyle is not front crawl. In a freestyle (FS) swimming event/race, you can swim any of the four strokes. As the fastest time wins a race, 99% of the time you would swim front crawl. Sometimes you many swim a different stroke, the reason may be to practice race pacing in a competitive environment.

Front crawl is the fastest stroke. In general you have constant propulsion. It is also the most efficient and you burn the least number of calories compared to the other three strokes. This is the reason FC is used during OW swims.

In relation to threading the water, one type is breaststroke legs in the vertical position. This will work but you will be bobbing in the water. A better technique is doing single breaststroke legs, working alternative. This is called egg beater, used during water polo games and most OW swimmers. You are staple in the water.

Cheers for clearing that up. The reason i thought freestyle was front crawl was that when I was learning to swim i used to go on youtube to improve and get additional tips on my own technique and in a few of those videos they were referring to the front crawl technique as freestyle and thus how i thought that was that then. Apologies.

I never thought front crawl burned the least amount of calories funny enough I always thought it was breaststroke. I will be varying my training with the other three strokes more from now on.

I really need to get into deep water and test myself out. I will know for certain then if I can do it.