Metrics 101: Stroke Length

Stroke length is how far your body travels forward on each arm stroke.

It is like measuring the distance you move forward on each step or stride.

We can easily feel Stride Length and see it on land as we walk or run. It makes sense to us as Land Mammals. It’s the same idea for us in water, but we can’t feel it and we can’t see it directly. (Can fish feel their stride?) So we first have to learn some new forms of measurement and train ourselves to feel it, so that we can control it.

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