I'm pretty much only a freestyle/crawl stroke swimmer. I'll do lots of interval sets in the pool, but only swim very little of the other strokes. Often I'll just throw in an IM here and there just to break up the monotony. But I'm by no means proficient at those other strokes. Yesterday, as I rested after doing a 400 IM, the woman in the lane next to me (obviously an experienced swimmer) came to a stop and asks "Were you just swimming butterfly?" I told her I was and she responded "Hmm, ya don't see people swimming butterfly much anymore."
Dan
In my opinion, butterfly is a delicate-flower-of-a-stroke, not to be practiced too much, only to be summoned at the most auspicious of taper times, when the stars are aligned, the shoulders loose, the knees double-jointed and after a few magical spells have been cast upon and potions adjoined to the pristine, chlorinated waters ... said the man whose third favorite event (in the right circumstances) is the 200 fly.
In my opinion, butterfly is a delicate-flower-of-a-stroke, not to be practiced too much, only to be summoned at the most auspicious of taper times, when the stars are aligned, the shoulders loose, the knees double-jointed and after a few magical spells have been cast upon and potions adjoined to the pristine, chlorinated waters ... said the man whose third favorite event (in the right circumstances) is the 200 fly.
