Thank you to my Supporters!
Jun
23Thank you to my Supporters!
Posted by Kevin Doak on Monday at: 4:20am (June 23rd, 2008)
Thank you to my supporters today , it was a great day! I updated the "Trials" page with a few links, I'm still adding new information as I have it. Thanks for checking back.
A few backstroke facts via Wikipedia:
- Backstroke is an ancient style of swimming.
- It was the second stroke to be swum in competitions other than freestyle.
- Backstroke was first inducted into the Olympics at 1900 Paris Olympics.
- Those Olympics included a 200m backstroke race.
- Backstroke is also almost always swum with bent arms underwater.
- Backstroke is the third fastest stroke after Freestyle and Butterfly.
- The maximum swimming speed is around 1.84 meter per second.
- Due to its position on the back, backstroke uses different muscles in the upper body than other styles.