
Swimming Styles Times Seven
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo above shows Dean Jarvis, a dog paddler who swam 25.7 km in 18 hours [read his story in the Wall Street Journal here].
While most swimmers use freestyle to train, race and swim in open bodies of water, there are much smaller percentages of swimmers who use other strokes for their wild swims, stage swims, marathon swims, channel swims, circumnavigation swims, high-altitude swims, winter swims, and ice swims. Ranked below in terms of general global popularity, there are 7 major swimming styles:




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