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!
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I found it was easy to pick up the sequence for the kicks by letting the body do what came naturally when I concentrated on the arms. Clean entry clean exit and not hitting the water when they travelled foreward to the entry.
My coach of the day always made sure the feat did not exit the water.
Firby always talked about the legs being in the second wave. This was after I had started to swim in the marathon races and I only did butterfly with Dan Sherry when he was getting ready to break the world record for the 100 yards butterfly.
I found it was easy to pick up the sequence for the kicks by letting the body do what came naturally when I concentrated on the arms. Clean entry clean exit and not hitting the water when they travelled foreward to the entry.
My coach of the day always made sure the feat did not exit the water.
Firby always talked about the legs being in the second wave. This was after I had started to swim in the marathon races and I only did butterfly with Dan Sherry when he was getting ready to break the world record for the 100 yards butterfly.
