Hello, I'm a UK swimmer (41) who took up swimming following a running injury 4 years ago. A familiar scenario to many. My freestyle and breaststroke is OK and infact I do fairly well in a breaststroke set at the club.
My butterfly is like a stone in the water however. I have chatted to other members , the coach, and watched the good guys, but it does not seem to happen. I get no real leg power on a kick in, kick out rhythym for each arm pull. I know the power comes from the stomach as well as the legs and I know rhythym is important. Has anybody had any great moments of enlightenment. No amount of drill work seems to make a huge difference. Any ideas ?
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I was training for front crawl 100 and added the 100 fly to compete in, unfortunately at that time they did not swim the hundred in the Olympics or Commonwealth games. I just raced in meets that had the 100 fly (held the Canadian record for the 100 fly). I only raced a 200 m fly once and almost died, 1956 Olympics Melborne Australia. They entered me even though the Canadian officials knew I could not do a 200, it was when I was suffering from mono... Now I only swim 50 and 100 free and fly.
George
I was training for front crawl 100 and added the 100 fly to compete in, unfortunately at that time they did not swim the hundred in the Olympics or Commonwealth games. I just raced in meets that had the 100 fly (held the Canadian record for the 100 fly). I only raced a 200 m fly once and almost died, 1956 Olympics Melborne Australia. They entered me even though the Canadian officials knew I could not do a 200, it was when I was suffering from mono... Now I only swim 50 and 100 free and fly.
George
