alternate breathing

Anyone with ideas how to learn to breathe to the side in fly??? Skip Very easy and simple instructions, you put your left ear in and your right ear out and shake it all about. Here is an instruction video www.youtube.com/watch That is how you do the Ockey Cokey.

Lindsay, Thanks. That image sequence is really helpful. (Will you be putting up a narrative about your swim vacation somewhere on the Web?) Thanks, VB

Based on Phelps and Crocker it seems breathing should occur during the finish of the pull. No?

Lindsay very good I would like to see a few pics in advance of your snippets if possible. I would like to see the position of the head as the hands enter until they come out at the finish.

Lindsay very good I would like to see a few pics in advance of your snippets if possible. I would like to see the position of the head as the hands enter until they come out at the finish. Unfortunately I made that picture about a year ago and I can't seem to find the video clip the frames are captured from. I'm pretty sure it is from the old Phelps/Bowman Swim Fast Butterfly DVD. People have posted links to that video on google and youtube. Sorry.

Here is a very small clip www.fotosearch.com/.../ This one is good www.fotosearch.com/.../ This one not so good www.fotosearch.com/.../ And 120 stills. www.fotosearch.com/.../butterfly-stroke.html

In some of those still pictures the swimmer is incredibly high out of the water! One of the things I enjoyed with trials was watching the heats where you got to see a lot of variations on the strokes, in my case I was most interested in the butterfly. It was interesting to wonder whether some of those strokes were the right stroke for that individual or whether the swimmer would have been even better with a more orthodox stroke.

Nice video hear on butterfly www.nyhoff.net/.../Butterfly-SwimcityMediaCentre-TomMalchow200mSemiSydney2000.mpg Have you gone to this site, lots of advice and little swim clips www.sportplan.net/.../index.jsp After afew viewings if you like what they have you can pay 50 English pounds a year for a single sport.

Anyone with ideas how to learn to breathe to the side in fly??? Skip 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.

Really? I find that far more people breath too late in fly (including me) than breath too early! Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever watched someone and thought, "they're breathing too early." What problem occurs when you breath too early? You become fatigued much more quickly. My daughter breathes early (or too late depending). She breathes as she starts her arm recovery. I have been trying to work with her on it for the last 2 months, I've also had her in one on one lessons and so far, no dice. She swims a pretty good stroke if she doesn't breathe but when she breathes it's a train wreck.