Today, there are four recognized strokes in competitive swimming. It wasn't always that way. RJ Hemmingsen, a freshman at the University of Iowa, holds the Iowa State High School Athletic ...

Scientists regularly draw ideas from the natural world in a bid to improve robotic performance, and when it comes to soft robots that swim, motion in the ocean is a rich source of inspiration. The ...

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Keep reading to learn more about each stroke and how they're swam, plus which muscles are worked. This powerful stroke requires a swimmer to move up out of the water and back down in a smooth, almost ...

image: Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than ...

Today, we accept that there are four competitive strokes. But when the first rules for competitive swimming were written in the early 19th century, there was only one rule: Whoever swam the fastest ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. In competitive swimming, there are four ways a swimmer can race across the pool ...

By definition, freestyle events permit athletes to use any style of swimming they choose. However, one technique, the front ...

Athletes operate against a ticking clock. They train and work on their craft, and compete at the highest level, all while knowing that the physical attributes responsible for their success, will soon ...

Let me start by saying, I get it, we all think “our” stroke is the hardest of the four individual strokes to train. I constantly recall the backstrokers complaining about their burning legs or the ...