Distance per stroke

Noun - Distance per stroke or DPS is the distance a swimmer takes per arm stroke doing freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke or butterfly.

DPS is different than strokes/minute (or SPM) or strokes/second (or stroke rate or SR).

Example

Example from About.com - Swimming:

Swimmer completes the 100m freestyle in 1:00, using 54 stroke cycles.

DPS = distance/# cycles used for that distance = 100/54 = 1.85 meters/cycle SR = # cycles/time = 54/1:00 = .9 cycles/second Seconds/Stroke = time/# cycles = 1:00/54 = 1.11 seconds/cycle

External links

• Acronyms In The Open Water Swimming World
• Distance Per Stroke, Stroke Rate by About.com
• The 1-2-3s Of Open Water Swimming
• TOWER 26 Be Race Ready Podcast Goes Live
• Be Race Ready - Framing Cycles And Swim Workout Design
• Be Race Ready Podcast On Tautness, Alignment, Propulsion
• Guardians Of The Sea, From Tower 26 And Beyond
• Tower 26
• The Open Water Grave By Gerry Rodrigues
• Alignment And Structural Presence In The Open Water
• Tri To Improve In The Pool And Open Water
• Tower 26's Gerry Rodrigues On Gripping And Ripping
• DPS And EVF In OWS
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Open Water Swimming
• Olympic 10K Marathon Swim round-up
• Marathon Swimming
• Olympic 10K Marathon Swim
• Daily News of Open Water Swimming
• I Got Stung
• World Marathon Swimming Association