Teach Yourself Breaststroke Swimming

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Brief history of breaststroke swimming. 3. Breaststroke skills and techniques. 4. Some safety guidelines. 5. Physical fitness for breaststrokers. 6. Rules of breaststroke swimming.

"Breaststroke is one of the oldest and traditional strokes most commonly used in swimming. It is from breaststroke that some other strokes of swimming viz., backstroke or backcrawling, butterfly, dolphin kick etc., begin to occurring.

It is the slowest of the three official styles in competitive swimming. The fastest breaststroke swimmers can swim around 1.67 metre per second. The push off at the start and after the turns contributes significantly to the swimming times.

The present book deals with all aspects of breaststroke swimming viz., historical background, skills and techniques, and rules. The text are arranged in a lucid form and being written in simple colloquial English.

In this way, the present book has wide scope for the new aspirant swimmers especially breaststrokers who wish to develop and sharpen their breaststroke skills, students and teachers of physical education and sports etc." (jacket)