As I have gotten older, I have really gotten into swimming for exercise.  What about you?
I swim every morning. I use it as physical therapy for my shoulder I just fixed. Did you know the sport started in the UK in the early 1900s?
I did not know that.  Did you have a rotator cuff tear?  You would think it is muscles torn but it is actually tendons are what is really torn.
No just old age. Doctor said swimming would be great to get my range of motion increased. The crawl stroke works best. It was developed first in South Africa in the 1880s.
I am going to guess the first form was the breaststroke?  It seems the most natural way to swim.
The breaststroke was the stroke used first when swimming was added to the Olympics in 1912.
I remember when I was being taught to swim, the butterfly was such a difficult stroke!  I never did it again after being taught!
I never mastered the butterfly. Did you learn when you were young? Some states require kids learn in school.
Speed and ergonomics.
The peak speed of the butterfly is faster than that of the front crawl, or freestyle due to the synchronous pull/push with both arms and legs, which is done quite fast. Yet since speed drops significantly during the recovery phase, it is overall slightly slower than front crawl, especially over longer distances. Another reason it is slower is because of the extremely different physical exertion it puts on the swimmer compared to the freestyle. Its name was taken from the butterfly.
The breaststroke,
egalitarian about it, you should try and reach as many people as possible. Because I wouldn’t just want to reach people on a street level either. I like to have my work sometimes in an intellectual forum, where I am able to discuss it and I'm able to validate it and show the thought behind it. As well as put it on the street and have nobody even knows who did it or maybe its signed or whatever but they don’t really know who I am.
So I think that