We had a videotaping session in practice on Wed and I got some video of my butterfly. I've been trying to work on my butterfly lately but I could really use some pointers and suggestions for specific things to work on and how to work on them.
Clearly the turnover is too slow. Lack of range of motion in my shoulders doesn't allow me to keep my hands at the surface while my chest is down the way that people like Phelps do. In the underwater side view it looks like my hips sink way too much and then don't quite make it back up to the surface, but I don't know what to do about that other than a quicker recovery.
youtube.com/watch
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
I'll chime in based on what my experience has been. The thing I noticed was that it seemed you were placing equal emphasis on both kicks in the stroke cycle. This in turn made it look like it was was difficult for you to get into the rhythm. I think there's supposed to be a "main kick," that occurs when your hands are near the end of the propulsive phase, and a second, smaller kick (not sure when the smaller kick occurs as it's hard to imagine when typing on a keyboard).
For me, it became much easier and faster to swim once I got the timing down, and initially I had to "force myself" to drop the second kick for a while.
Again, just something I keyed into because that was my biggest issue when learning fly.
:banana:
I'll chime in based on what my experience has been. The thing I noticed was that it seemed you were placing equal emphasis on both kicks in the stroke cycle. This in turn made it look like it was was difficult for you to get into the rhythm. I think there's supposed to be a "main kick," that occurs when your hands are near the end of the propulsive phase, and a second, smaller kick (not sure when the smaller kick occurs as it's hard to imagine when typing on a keyboard).
For me, it became much easier and faster to swim once I got the timing down, and initially I had to "force myself" to drop the second kick for a while.
Again, just something I keyed into because that was my biggest issue when learning fly.
:banana:
