Anyone with ideas how to learn to breathe to the side in fly???
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I have been working on that, because I have a neck problem that makes front breathing painful. I have two teammates who do it pretty well and I watched them a lot. Also, when I set my mind to learning it I did a lot of one-arm drill, and wore fins to be sure I could get my head out enough to get air.
I think breathing to the side forces me to breathe a little later than breathing to the front, which is OK because like most people I tended to breathe a little too early to the front. Mostly I just had to get used to it, same as I had to get used to breathing to my "wrong" side when I first learned bilateral breathing in freestyle. It felt so awkward at first.
Anyone with ideas how to learn to breathe to the side in fly???
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I have been working on that, because I have a neck problem that makes front breathing painful. I have two teammates who do it pretty well and I watched them a lot. Also, when I set my mind to learning it I did a lot of one-arm drill, and wore fins to be sure I could get my head out enough to get air.
I think breathing to the side forces me to breathe a little later than breathing to the front, which is OK because like most people I tended to breathe a little too early to the front. Mostly I just had to get used to it, same as I had to get used to breathing to my "wrong" side when I first learned bilateral breathing in freestyle. It felt so awkward at first.
