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
I just finished an alternate stroke set today that included 800 yds of fly (1 x 200, 2 X 100, 4 X 50 and 8 X 25). The guy in the lane next to me ask if I was a butterfly specialist. My response: No, I just have a low IQ.
That's an LOL.
Dan
I just finished an alternate stroke set today that included 800 yds of fly (1 x 200, 2 X 100, 4 X 50 and 8 X 25). The guy in the lane next to me ask if I was a butterfly specialist. My response: No, I just have a low IQ.
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
I guess that she doesn't watch the Olympics and goes to a Masters meet. She talks like butterfly is on the endangered stroke list or something. What kind of "I don't see people swim butterfly world" does this woman live in!"
> 'Real' butterfliers where are you? (or is it butterflyers?)
Perhaps sidestep the issue and use "butterfly swimmers"? :)
FWIW, Chrome doesn't like either of your prospective plural nouns, highlighting both:
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Our Masters program is IM based, so we swim some fly almost every day.
Last week our coach had a "Fly Friday" workout where the main set was 1,000 yards of fly, followed by a 200 yard set of underwater dolphins, followed by a 200 IM, and finished up with a 100 IM for time. Lots of fun, but my arms weren't quite working properly by the time I got to the last 100 IM.
> 'Real' butterfliers where are you? (or is it butterflyers?)
Perhaps sidestep the issue and use "butterfly swimmers"? :)
Yeah...butterfly swimmers sounds good.
Dan
"Hmm, ya don't see people swimming butterfly much anymore."
It's could be this
At the end of 1999, membership (annual and one-day) stood at 127,824. Those numbers had more than doubled to 262,703 by 2005, and USA Triathlon continued to experience double-digit annual growth through 2007 when it reached 336,356 members.
After hitting 441,060 members in 2009, USA Triathlon consistently experienced 4 percent growth in 2010 and 2011 before a 5.64 percent increase in annual and one-day members in 2012, topping out at a record high 510,859.
Roughly 4-fold increase in triathletes over the last 15 years, all of whom swim freestyle exclusively. The butterflyers could still be there, in the same numbers, but it seems like fewer ...
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.
Roughly 4-fold increase in triathletes over the last 15 years, all of whom swim freestyle exclusively. The butterflyers could still be there, in the same numbers, but it seems like fewer ...
Wait, not sure what an increase in triathlon participation has to do with swimmers at the pool. I'm a triathlete and I'm swimming butterfly at the pool (note that I'm not a real butterfly swimmer...just a hack). I've been doing triathlon for more than 30 years. Most of the people that come into the sport don't come from swimming. But I know that triathletes also train at the pool, and triathlon doesn't require a participant to swim butterfly stroke. At any rate...there are still Masters, and other swimmers out there. But no one swimming butterfly???
Dan
