I've heard a lot of stories about how if you don't know how to do fly properly you could seriously wreck your shoulders.
One story one of my friends told me that a friend of hers dislocated her shoulder in the middle of a race.
I do want to try it but I'm a bit intimidated to tell the truth. Plus, I'll look ridiculous the first time I try :blush:. Total embarrassment I'd predict.
Any tips to get over the fear?
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As promised
YouTube - Fly DrillSide
It's very simple to perform once you get the synch sorted out. And once you get to this point, there's no reason why the full stroke wouldn't work.
Not sure if just looking at it will be sufficient though. If you are fortunate enough to know someone that already knows the butterfly, you may want to send him think link and ask him to teach you. Otherwise, try it.
Think of it this way. One little kick to dive (head down), glide and one little kick to breathe (head up). Head up head down is the key. To breathe, PLAN your move. LOOK up to see where you're going to breathe before actually wanting to surface. Most of the glide occurs after the dive. You got to streamline yourself, feel like a very slippery seal. Once you got your fish, look up and surface.
Get this and you're getting the most fascinating aspect of BF.
If you have a hard time, then you can try with one arm as shown below
YouTube - Butterfly One Arm Drill (Back view)
Finally, I mentioned earlier in the thread about low intensity full stroke butterfly as being quite safe and soft on articulations. The clip below shows some of this very low intensity (low speed) butterfly. I can maintain this speed for a long while. I never experimented any sort of pain related to this.
You'll notice there's not a lot of undulation in this execution, that's mainly because I am very soft on the first kick trying to be energy efficient. If I was putting more energy to undulation, the overall speed would increase and so would the energy expenditure.
At this speed, I could swim a full kilo without slowing down.
YouTube - Base endurance Butterfly - Full stroke (Side View)
Hope you get to learn it, it's lots of fun
As promised
YouTube - Fly DrillSide
It's very simple to perform once you get the synch sorted out. And once you get to this point, there's no reason why the full stroke wouldn't work.
Not sure if just looking at it will be sufficient though. If you are fortunate enough to know someone that already knows the butterfly, you may want to send him think link and ask him to teach you. Otherwise, try it.
Think of it this way. One little kick to dive (head down), glide and one little kick to breathe (head up). Head up head down is the key. To breathe, PLAN your move. LOOK up to see where you're going to breathe before actually wanting to surface. Most of the glide occurs after the dive. You got to streamline yourself, feel like a very slippery seal. Once you got your fish, look up and surface.
Get this and you're getting the most fascinating aspect of BF.
If you have a hard time, then you can try with one arm as shown below
YouTube - Butterfly One Arm Drill (Back view)
Finally, I mentioned earlier in the thread about low intensity full stroke butterfly as being quite safe and soft on articulations. The clip below shows some of this very low intensity (low speed) butterfly. I can maintain this speed for a long while. I never experimented any sort of pain related to this.
You'll notice there's not a lot of undulation in this execution, that's mainly because I am very soft on the first kick trying to be energy efficient. If I was putting more energy to undulation, the overall speed would increase and so would the energy expenditure.
At this speed, I could swim a full kilo without slowing down.
YouTube - Base endurance Butterfly - Full stroke (Side View)
Hope you get to learn it, it's lots of fun
