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?
I really need to get some underwater video of myself. That would help a lot. Or convince my wife to move somewhere closer to a team with a coach.
So I attempted to focus on it today... I can do the steady tempo pretty easily. However, from that perspective, my arms are going too slow. It feels like my kick finishes when my hands are right about halfway through the pull. Whereas the noob in this video:
www.vxv.com/.../michael-phelps-butterfly-underwater.html
... finishes his kick right about the time his hands exit. Kicking them out of the water, as they say. It actually looks like he starts that kick pretty close to his catch - which is about how I do it (or at least how it feels to me). So maybe my "second" kick is too small, or I'm taking too much time getting my arms into position?
I really need to get some underwater video of myself. That would help a lot. Or convince my wife to move somewhere closer to a team with a coach.
So I attempted to focus on it today... I can do the steady tempo pretty easily. However, from that perspective, my arms are going too slow. It feels like my kick finishes when my hands are right about halfway through the pull. Whereas the noob in this video:
www.vxv.com/.../michael-phelps-butterfly-underwater.html
... finishes his kick right about the time his hands exit. Kicking them out of the water, as they say. It actually looks like he starts that kick pretty close to his catch - which is about how I do it (or at least how it feels to me). So maybe my "second" kick is too small, or I'm taking too much time getting my arms into position?
