I decided to learn butterfly this week(so far I have been swimming freestyle and breaststroke).I watched a ton of videos of butterfly and know the basics of that stroke.However, I was wondering if some people here remember their first time trying to swim it and how soon after you first tried it you figured it out, because I don't seem to coordinate all the movements right and my effort is pretyy much over once i throw my hands over the water for the first time(that's when i lose my kick).I thought maybe I should do it in phases, so I would like to see if someone could suggest some separate drills or something that would gradually lead to a better feel of the entire stroke.
Thanks a lot.
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For me butterfly has always been grueling, hard, complicated, a pain in the neck, and never very good....so I do it all the time because I love the challenge that is presents me with!! When I first started to learn fly, it was pretty bad. So what I did was break it down into the individual parts. First I made sure I had the kick down, then tried the arms, and finally tried to add them all together. It took me forever to learn fly, then I stopped swimming for 3 yrs, and it took me forever to learn it again. But I kept doing it and my fly is better now than it ever has been. So try breaking it down, that my help, or get a lesson, then someone can actually tell you what you need to fix rather you try and guess (which is especially hard because you can't see yourself:p )
~Kyra
GOOD LUCK!!
For me butterfly has always been grueling, hard, complicated, a pain in the neck, and never very good....so I do it all the time because I love the challenge that is presents me with!! When I first started to learn fly, it was pretty bad. So what I did was break it down into the individual parts. First I made sure I had the kick down, then tried the arms, and finally tried to add them all together. It took me forever to learn fly, then I stopped swimming for 3 yrs, and it took me forever to learn it again. But I kept doing it and my fly is better now than it ever has been. So try breaking it down, that my help, or get a lesson, then someone can actually tell you what you need to fix rather you try and guess (which is especially hard because you can't see yourself:p )
~Kyra
GOOD LUCK!!
