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.
I've yet to find anything else that can take someone from a swim idiot to a passable stroke in a few weeks. For the basics they seem to have a good system.
At any rate, the book would be swimming made easy and the accompanying dvd would be 4 strokes made easy. Both are available at www.totalimmersion.net.
I worked through their drill progression and learned a passable fly stroke. Not awesome by any respect, but it's certainly a start.
I think it started to make sense to me when I realized that viewed from the side your trunk makes a sine wave; but the important bit was realizing that the main thrust of your pull should come just as your trunk is starting to move UP the sine wave. Pulling in other positions our arms are fighting your body.
I've yet to find anything else that can take someone from a swim idiot to a passable stroke in a few weeks. For the basics they seem to have a good system.
At any rate, the book would be swimming made easy and the accompanying dvd would be 4 strokes made easy. Both are available at www.totalimmersion.net.
I worked through their drill progression and learned a passable fly stroke. Not awesome by any respect, but it's certainly a start.
I think it started to make sense to me when I realized that viewed from the side your trunk makes a sine wave; but the important bit was realizing that the main thrust of your pull should come just as your trunk is starting to move UP the sine wave. Pulling in other positions our arms are fighting your body.
