depends
some people have a long smooth fly stroke and they are like the energizer "fish"
they keep on going and going
my answer
not very
but it really depends on how hard I kick
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What's the furthest that somebody/most people/anybody/the best flyer can swim butterfly and keep good form?
Gail Rice did the Key West race (12.5 miles) fly.
Also there was an English woman who was going to attempt fly for the entire MIMS (28.5 miles) in either '05 or '06 (I forget). If '05, then she didn't make it because the race was cancelled after 6-ish hours. I also remember hearing that this same woman either had done the Channel that way or was going to do the channel that way.
-LBJ
I and a lot of others sat in amazement when Dennis Baker swam the 400 in a meet. We all thought he'd swim free like the others but he did it all fly. Perfect form the entire way. I'm sure he's done longer but not one I've witnessed. Oh and I believe he won his heat, too.
Alison
He has done it longer. At a USA meet at ASU at the end of May of this year, he swam the 1500 Free and did it Fly swimming an 18:52.88 as a 45 year old. This was the same pool he swam in 25 years earlier an earned NCAA All American status for ASU. At this same meet he won the 200 meter fly and it was pointed out by Duncan Scott, who was announcing the race for Swimming World TV that he was three times older than the youngest competitior in the final. Now that is something that even Dara Torres has not done even though she is getting close to being three times older than her youngest competition.
I just do not know of many races for flyers over 200 meters.The Australian Masters maintain records on each of the strokes up to 800M and contest races up to 1500M.
If you do fly in a freestyle race, it is no longer butterfly it is freestyle. Now if you can fly that far and that fast would he have been faster swimming crawl???
I just do not know of many races for flyers over 200 meters.
The Australian Masters maintain records on each of the strokes up to 800M and contest races up to 1500M.
Do they recognize it as Butterfly if they swim Butterfrog. Are all these people doing Butterfly swimming Butterfly or Butterfrog? If they swim Butterfrog is it still called good form?
5 more days and I will fly away.
Dennis Baker will be our meet director at LC nationals in August 2008. He claims he will be too busy to compete in the meet, but with some encouragement, maybe he can be persuaded to enter the 1500 and demonstrate whether he's up to a mile of fly with half the turns! See the Nationals Forum for more reasons to come to Oregon next August.
