I am finally starting to get the hang of fly, but still can't swim a distance at one go - by distance, I mean fly-wise. i.e., more than 50 meters.
What is the key to flying distance? I wonder why I lose my wind only after 50 meters of flying when I can swim 1000 meters of freestyle without much fatigue.
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I'm not a expert, but it takes alot to pull to pull your self up out of the water and pull your arms up and over your head and back again.
In free your not pulling yourself up and out of the water,making it less taxing on your body.
I guess that's why you learn freestyle and backstroke first when learning how to swim.
The more you can work on fly the more your build up ... making that pull less taxing..thus the farther you can go. Breaststroke can be the same,it takes alot of pull.
When I was a kid, I thought breaststroke was hard to learn, but once you learn it it's easy. And as a kid I used to think if you excelled in breaststroke I thought big deal, breaststroke, that's not real stroke..I have now changed my mind, after getting back into the pool,
I have a whole new respect for all *** strokers, to really do breaststroke it takes alot of pull, I never felt before, to pull your body up and down again - and then to race breaststroke - wow!! I'm not sure if I could do *** at race speed for more that 25yd. I applauded breaststrokers....
I'm not a expert, but it takes alot to pull to pull your self up out of the water and pull your arms up and over your head and back again.
In free your not pulling yourself up and out of the water,making it less taxing on your body.
I guess that's why you learn freestyle and backstroke first when learning how to swim.
The more you can work on fly the more your build up ... making that pull less taxing..thus the farther you can go. Breaststroke can be the same,it takes alot of pull.
When I was a kid, I thought breaststroke was hard to learn, but once you learn it it's easy. And as a kid I used to think if you excelled in breaststroke I thought big deal, breaststroke, that's not real stroke..I have now changed my mind, after getting back into the pool,
I have a whole new respect for all *** strokers, to really do breaststroke it takes alot of pull, I never felt before, to pull your body up and down again - and then to race breaststroke - wow!! I'm not sure if I could do *** at race speed for more that 25yd. I applauded breaststrokers....
