hello
I have been swimming fly for 5 years, but just a week ago somebody told that my stroke is wrong.
When I first learned butterfly I used to focus a lot on my kick, so my stroke was very slow. Then my coach told me to focus on my arms, get them fast and my kick would eventually catch up with the speed.
Then I kept on doing fly but wihout a coach, I eventually got faster, but here is why my stroke is wrong: I don't kick two times every stroke, I only do it once, and anybody ever told me!
So, my time for a 50 fly SCM is 32" high, and for 100 SCM is 1' 13"
I started to do 2 kicks every stroke, but my times are x10 slower, like 40" for a 50 SCM fly :cane:(the only positive thing is that I get a lot less tired than
with the other stroke)
Here is a video of me from 6 months ago:
‪50 fly SCM‬ - YouTube
There you can clearly see that I only kick once every stroke.
So, my question is, how do I correct my stroke without losing too much speed in the process?
Because with the current speed of my arms, there is no way to kick two times, so I have to slow down and let them still infront of me for a moment so I kick a second time.
Thanks
Guesstimating her split times using the youtube ticker, she opened with a 7 stroke, 14sec length; her second length (9 strokes) took about 16sec. Very uniform pace over the first 50.
Then she downshifts into butterglide, and her five middle butterglide lengths (7 strokes) go about 17, 17, 17.5, 18 and 18 seconds. It appears she lost about one second per length, in return for doing two less strokes.
Eerily efficient. Shades of Sun Yang.
UPDATE
Thank you all for the feedback, I took note of everything, mostly the drills
So last saturday (altmost 2 months since I started to change my stroke) I sawm 200 IM in LCM
This is 20 seconds of my fly at the beggining of the race, I can see my kick improvement very clear.
I'm still swimming a slower fly, but the stroke is much better, and it will kick the old stroke ass in 6 months :)
Here is the short video:
Start of 200 IM LCM.wmv - YouTube
I'm in lane 6 on top......the guy with the latest start
BTW: Maybe somebody can figure out this video problem:
I couldn't upload the full 200 IM because somehow the video got broken. It was filmed with a dvd camera, when I put the disk in the computer is a file with extension file.vro, I changed the extension to file.avi so I can play it, but somehow a 3 minute vid turns into a 20 seconds vid, when I watch it on windows media player even though it says 20s it plays for 3 minutes, how is that possible? like 1 second = 10 seconds and so on
