Sinking hips during recovery in fly

Your timing is off. YOur head shouldn't be coming out of the water to breathe at the same time that your feet are breaking the surface. It's like you're swimming uphill and your hips have nowhere to go but down at that moment. BOOYA! That's exactly what I said!!! Here's a couple ideas to drill to help with this. First of all, stop kicking (this is a drill). You'll only kick enough to get the movement, but STOP the full kick. You are kicking from your knees, and your fly kick should come from your hips. The Dolphin kick is full body movement, and when you bend your knees as much as you are, then you aren't using the full body. If you do a 1 arm fly focussing only on the upper body and body movement you'll stop focussing on such a kick. -I'm trying to write this to make sense, but I can't seem to get it right. Try it and you may understand what I'm trying to say. Stop tyring to kick so hard. you are kicking too much from your knees. KWIM? You are breathing EVERY STROKE. Breathing in fly is the downfall of the stroke! When you lift your head to breath, you can't get your arms around and over the water properly which means that you drop your hips in order to get your arms out of the water and BOOM, you are vertical in the water. So, when you breath, you HAVE to get your head back down BEFORE your arms exit the water. You'll notice many fly'ers breath to the side; this helps. But if you can start not breathing, you'll never have this problem ;-) 1) make sure you are blowing bubbles. Blowing air out when your head is out of the water is just wasted time and makes swimming harder. 2) Instead of picking your head up to breath, streach out your chin. This train of thought will help you remember to keep your body horizontal. 3) You need to breath durring the pull, and head goes back down at the moment your arms exit the water. Good Luck!!

Your timing is off. YOur head shouldn't be coming out of the water to breathe at the same time that your feet are breaking the surface. It's like you're swimming uphill and your hips have nowhere to go but down at that moment. BOOYA! That's exactly what I said!!! Here's a couple ideas to drill to help with this. First of all, stop kicking (this is a drill). You'll only kick enough to get the movement, but STOP the full kick. You are kicking from your knees, and your fly kick should come from your hips. The Dolphin kick is full body movement, and when you bend your knees as much as you are, then you aren't using the full body. If you do a 1 arm fly focussing only on the upper body and body movement you'll stop focussing on such a kick. -I'm trying to write this to make sense, but I can't seem to get it right. Try it and you may understand what I'm trying to say. Stop tyring to kick so hard. you are kicking too much from your knees. KWIM? You are breathing EVERY STROKE. Breathing in fly is the downfall of the stroke! When you lift your head to breath, you can't get your arms around and over the water properly which means that you drop your hips in order to get your arms out of the water and BOOM, you are vertical in the water. So, when you breath, you HAVE to get your head back down BEFORE your arms exit the water. You'll notice many fly'ers breath to the side; this helps. But if you can start not breathing, you'll never have this problem ;-) 1) make sure you are blowing bubbles. Blowing air out when your head is out of the water is just wasted time and makes swimming harder. 2) Instead of picking your head up to breath, streach out your chin. This train of thought will help you remember to keep your body horizontal. 3) You need to breath durring the pull, and head goes back down at the moment your arms exit the water. Good Luck!!