Working on learning the fly for a couple months now. I swim in a short course meters pool. My stroke count for 25m is 8. Last time I swam, I realized I was probably pulling too hard on the pulldown. I backed the pull off a notch, which made my stroke feel a whole lot smoother and easier, but I still hit the wall in 8 strokes. I'm wondering if I shouldn't try and increase the turnover rate and take another stroke or two rather than lunging for all I'm worth on every stroke? Or is 8 about right?
Not a whole lot of flyers in my pool on my lunch swims for me to watch or compare myself to, and I'm self coached, so while "Your results may vary," I'm interested in what others are doing. I'm a 6'2" 44 year old guy (who's probably too old to be trying to learn new tricks, but is).
Thanks.
Thanks for helping me to remember that fly is all about rhythm. When I get it going, it feels great, but it kind of comes and goes for this beginner. After thinking some about Rob's comment, I had a day where it all felt good -- and then the next day that rhythm could not be found anywhere in my stroke. And so it goes.
My local masters swim at 6 am, which is when I'm sipping coffee desperately trying to recover from yet another night of sleepus interruptus courtesy of my 5 and 2 year old. I have had less than a handful of full 8 hour sleeps since the oldest was born. But I'm hoping to get with the team program in the fall to get some coaching and maybe a competition or two.
I just wanted to see if 8 strokes was in the general ballpark; sounds like it is. Although when I hit the magic rhthym, it dropped to 7 with less effort. So clearly there is room for improvement.
The TI stuff really resonated with me for my free, but not as much yet for the fly. But I'll rent the video and check it out.
Thanks for helping me to remember that fly is all about rhythm. When I get it going, it feels great, but it kind of comes and goes for this beginner. After thinking some about Rob's comment, I had a day where it all felt good -- and then the next day that rhythm could not be found anywhere in my stroke. And so it goes.
My local masters swim at 6 am, which is when I'm sipping coffee desperately trying to recover from yet another night of sleepus interruptus courtesy of my 5 and 2 year old. I have had less than a handful of full 8 hour sleeps since the oldest was born. But I'm hoping to get with the team program in the fall to get some coaching and maybe a competition or two.
I just wanted to see if 8 strokes was in the general ballpark; sounds like it is. Although when I hit the magic rhthym, it dropped to 7 with less effort. So clearly there is room for improvement.
The TI stuff really resonated with me for my free, but not as much yet for the fly. But I'll rent the video and check it out.
