I noticed today that I do this:
www.youtube.com/watch
:(
My kick is definitely already done by the time I need to breathe, so my arms need to push down to get my head out of the water, wasting precious energy that would better be used to push forward. All this up-and-down means I have died at the end of nearly every 200 butterfly I've ever done.
How do I fix it?
As long as you are actually doing a one-arm fly drill and not a one-arm free drill with a dolphin kick. If you rotate your shoulders or breathe to the side during the drill, you are probably doing a freestyle arm recovery (one-arm free drill); not fly.
Yeah, I probably do that too. I do the one-arm drill primarily to work on keeping my arms low over the water, but I do breathe to the side, and I would not be surprised if an outside observer saw significant rotation. I'm going to work on it today and really try to focus on delaying that second kick until the pull is almost complete. If I can get that down, then I'll try not to rotate. I can't imagine one-arm fly without breathing to the side, though... that sounds tricky. I'm going to be an optimist and assume that if I have the kick in the right place, then the breath will come naturally :D
As long as you are actually doing a one-arm fly drill and not a one-arm free drill with a dolphin kick. If you rotate your shoulders or breathe to the side during the drill, you are probably doing a freestyle arm recovery (one-arm free drill); not fly.
Yeah, I probably do that too. I do the one-arm drill primarily to work on keeping my arms low over the water, but I do breathe to the side, and I would not be surprised if an outside observer saw significant rotation. I'm going to work on it today and really try to focus on delaying that second kick until the pull is almost complete. If I can get that down, then I'll try not to rotate. I can't imagine one-arm fly without breathing to the side, though... that sounds tricky. I'm going to be an optimist and assume that if I have the kick in the right place, then the breath will come naturally :D
