🫵 Can you swim faster 25m breaststroke? 👇 👉 Butterfly is the hardest stroke to learn and breastsroke is the hardest stroke to swim. Breaststroke is so hard to swim as it is more tiring than all the other stroke due to its unique counter movement. Now breaststroke demands proper timing to achieve the best results. Your body will dip up and down with no side-to-side rotation as you flow forward through the water. Think of yourself coiling and then exploding forward repeatedly as you gain speed.