Can Breaststroke Swim be FASTER than freestyle!?

If there was a competition where every swimmer in the world swam 50 freestyle vs Emre Sakci swimming breaststroke (in the 25 meter pool) Sakci would beat more than 99% of the humans in 24 seconds and 95 hundredths. This debate over what is faster breaststroke or freestyle reached its peak in the year 1844. Some people have even told us that they swim faster breaststroke than freestyle.  Let’s see how people swim breaststroke so fast and the 4 common mistakes stopping you from moving this fast. Even the best breaststroke swimmers come to a full stop after each stroke. The legs are immobile half the time. They completely lift their head and part of their chest out of the water vertically. The knees create incredible resistance that stops all progress. So how can someone swim breaststroke so fast!? In breaststroke the most important thing is the speed of the legs. But there are 4 main mistakes that stop swimmers from moving faster. Our dry-land channel: