I just started doing this this week and have already felt an improvement in my stroke. So I was just curious to know if anyone else breathes to the side on fly?
If you do, do you keep your head to the side, or do you flip back and forth between front and side? What advatages to you notice to side breathing as compared to front? How to you make adjustments for the arm you can't see?
If you don't, have you ever considered trying it? What advantages to you see in breathing to the front as compared to the side?
Just thought it would be interesting to find out about different peoples swimming styles.
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I like to side breath on breaststroke. This seems to disturb a lot of people at meets! :p It seems to make it easier to stay low and get that "over the top of the wave and down the other side feel" while avoiding inhaling water. After I master butterfly (yeah right! :rolleyes: ) I'll learn to do breaststroke correctly, I just can't get the across the top of the water arm recovery and the submerge and glide both going at the same time. I'm just too uncoordinated to learn to do two strokes correctly at the same time.:(
I remember that Swimming Fastest had a couple reasons why side breathing should not be encouraged but I don't remember what they were anymore, perhaps someone with a copy will look them up and post. If your stroke feels better breathing to the side it is probably a hint that you are lifting your head too much when you breath forward.
Esposito also does a one-kick fly, I wonder if there is a correlation...
I like to side breath on breaststroke. This seems to disturb a lot of people at meets! :p It seems to make it easier to stay low and get that "over the top of the wave and down the other side feel" while avoiding inhaling water. After I master butterfly (yeah right! :rolleyes: ) I'll learn to do breaststroke correctly, I just can't get the across the top of the water arm recovery and the submerge and glide both going at the same time. I'm just too uncoordinated to learn to do two strokes correctly at the same time.:(
I remember that Swimming Fastest had a couple reasons why side breathing should not be encouraged but I don't remember what they were anymore, perhaps someone with a copy will look them up and post. If your stroke feels better breathing to the side it is probably a hint that you are lifting your head too much when you breath forward.
Esposito also does a one-kick fly, I wonder if there is a correlation...
