 Freestlye is a type of swimming where any stroke can be used, but the crawl is almost always used. It is used in competitive swimming as well as recreational swimming. The crawl is the fastest swimming stroke. It is also the best stroke to choose when swimming any distance events.
The freestyle is also known as the crawl. This stroke is mainly used in competition, and it has become the fastest known stroke ever. When using this stroke, it consists of many strokes, and any amount of distance. This stroke was first widely known when it was performed in the Pacific Ocean at the end of the 19th century(1893), by an Australian swimmer named Henry Wickham. Two brothers, Syd and Charles Cavill, also from Australia, made this stroke popular in Europe in 1902, and in the United States in 1903. To perform this stroke, you combine many of the other strokes, so you come up with this: You flutter your legs up and down, and move your arms in a circular motion, timing it just right, so that the other arm comes up just before the first arms goes down. You do this while laying flat on the surface of the water, but keep your legs under the surface. You breathe by turning your head to either side during recovery of the arm for that side. This is just one of the most popular kind of freestyle strokes, but there are also many others. You can even create your own. This stroke is also now very popular, in fact, it has been used in more races than any other stroke since 1896.
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