Rich's Top Tips for Fast and Furious Fly.

Rich, Its good to think about breathing close to the surface of the water, rather than lifting your head/torso higher than is necessary, but it is probably better to start higher and work your way down to the surface rather than vice versa. All that said, swimming with a lung full will certainly build character, and prepare you to swim through those tough race moments...like during a 200 fly when your first breath tastes like water and theres 185 yards to go. I might suggest a set like 10 x 25 fly sprint breathe h2o every other.(but not in my pool) Yeah it's certainly a do I continue or give up moment. I mistimed my breakout and it was pretty funny, but for pool water gives me wicked stomach pains. I guess I've done it enough on *** it's not a system shock though. Joking aside Dave I think I'm coming up too high and probably over relying on arm power, which will "do" for a 50 but if I ever want to scale the heights of lunacy and do a 200, I'll need the kick and timing. I'm trying to just jutt out my jaw to breathe, regardless how high I am coming...I try not to think of it as lifting my head...it seems to feel right but again, it could be so very wrong. You'll see at zones. Good news is my SDK's went a bit better although not so powerful yet but I didn't find my self "descending" further with each kick like I usually do.

Rich, Its good to think about breathing close to the surface of the water, rather than lifting your head/torso higher than is necessary, but it is probably better to start higher and work your way down to the surface rather than vice versa. All that said, swimming with a lung full will certainly build character, and prepare you to swim through those tough race moments...like during a 200 fly when your first breath tastes like water and theres 185 yards to go. I might suggest a set like 10 x 25 fly sprint breathe h2o every other.(but not in my pool) Yeah it's certainly a do I continue or give up moment. I mistimed my breakout and it was pretty funny, but for pool water gives me wicked stomach pains. I guess I've done it enough on *** it's not a system shock though. Joking aside Dave I think I'm coming up too high and probably over relying on arm power, which will "do" for a 50 but if I ever want to scale the heights of lunacy and do a 200, I'll need the kick and timing. I'm trying to just jutt out my jaw to breathe, regardless how high I am coming...I try not to think of it as lifting my head...it seems to feel right but again, it could be so very wrong. You'll see at zones. Good news is my SDK's went a bit better although not so powerful yet but I didn't find my self "descending" further with each kick like I usually do.