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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to illustrate this... try standing up in a streamlined position (arms up). if you want, try standing first with your back against a blank wall (with no baseboard if possible), and get as much of your body (heals to spine to hands) pressed against the wall as you can (this is like something i learned in yoga class). How well you can accomplish this will tell you how flexible, or supple, you are here.
with this flatness in mind, step away from the wall and rotate the shoulders back... like pinching the shoulder blades together. if you rotate your arms as well, so the thumbs point forward (i.e. thumbs first entry) you should be able to get even more shoulder rotation (pinching).
I've always known I had poor flexibility/range of motion in my shoulders but... If I stand with my arms up in a streamlined position with hands together I can't move my shoulder blades at all! It takes a concerted effort to get my arms directly above my head at all, and once there I don't have any mobility at all. To get my shoulder blades together I have to move my hands out a little beyond shoulder width, which is where I've been trying to shift my hand entry to...
to illustrate this... try standing up in a streamlined position (arms up). if you want, try standing first with your back against a blank wall (with no baseboard if possible), and get as much of your body (heals to spine to hands) pressed against the wall as you can (this is like something i learned in yoga class). How well you can accomplish this will tell you how flexible, or supple, you are here.
with this flatness in mind, step away from the wall and rotate the shoulders back... like pinching the shoulder blades together. if you rotate your arms as well, so the thumbs point forward (i.e. thumbs first entry) you should be able to get even more shoulder rotation (pinching).
I've always known I had poor flexibility/range of motion in my shoulders but... If I stand with my arms up in a streamlined position with hands together I can't move my shoulder blades at all! It takes a concerted effort to get my arms directly above my head at all, and once there I don't have any mobility at all. To get my shoulder blades together I have to move my hands out a little beyond shoulder width, which is where I've been trying to shift my hand entry to...
