John is on holiday for today's class, but we have Andrew instead. He gives me a challenge to try to make my front crawl more efficient - each length try to reduce the number of strokes, by stretching the arm forward further and back on each stroke. It's quite a challenge - and that's just the mental maths! It's natural to count strokes per breath, so group the strokes into 3's or 4's or 5's etc, but then I lose count of how many breaths, and have to remember to count the occasional even numbers at the start and end of each length. I get the hang of it, and by the end of my 20-plus lengths ( I lose count of those I'm so busy counting strokes) I have reduced by number of strokes from 34 to 24 per length - my personal best - but seemed to get the average down significantly.
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