While I am still working on learning how to coordinate the kicking and pulling for the breaststroke, I have started learning the second of the two strokes I wanted to pick up this summer: the back crawl stroke. Although I had learned the elementary backstroke last year, I’m still not comfortable being in the water on my back, but I feel like it would benefit me to learn how to be. The arm movements required for the back crawl stroke seem quite unnatural and strange to me. I screwed up my first few attempts at this stroke horribly, and I ended up with water going up my nose which was not so fun. Although my instructor insists this stroke is easier to learn than the breaststroke, this is really going to take some getting used to…