Please forgive me, if this has been asked before.
My coach has decided it's time for me to expand my horizons. He's decided that I need to learn fly. I've watched a lot of videos, and I think have the keyhole stroke down. I've looked at a couple of one arm fly drills, and practiced a lot of dolphin kicks too.
What's the best way, in your opinion, to start learning fly. Coach just sends me across the pool and says do 50 Fly (on the fly, so to speak). I'd like to avoid developing as much bad form as I can from the start. He says I almost have it, but hasn't elaborated much past that yet.
I've heard that it may be easier to learn with fins at first, and then I've heard the exact opposites. Opinions??
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Please forgive me, if this has been asked before.
When you mention that you do the dolphin kick, how do you execute it exactly? With the breathing pattern and all or just some undulation with random breathing once in a while?
You can approach fly several way. Of course, I have to admit that if you could take a lesson, that would help a lot. You swim the 3 other strokes well at the moment?
Say that you just try the fly, for 15meters or so. The whole thing as you picture it, how do you feel. Can you breathe well? Can you recover the arms easily while breathing? How long can you swim the full stroke without dying?
See my version of dolphin kick for newbies below...
YouTube- Fly DrillSide
Should be very relaxing to execute, it's fly, without the arms. Breathing and kick synchronization is pretty close to that of full stroke. You should feel like a seal that dives and surfaces and dives and surfaces etc. Dive get a fish then surface and breathe. A kick to dive, a kick to surface. As you could see on the clip, it's very close to one arm drill in timing aspects, but the good thing with the kick only is you get to learn to breathe in front without even using your arms. It's a fly balance sort of drill.
Please forgive me, if this has been asked before.
When you mention that you do the dolphin kick, how do you execute it exactly? With the breathing pattern and all or just some undulation with random breathing once in a while?
You can approach fly several way. Of course, I have to admit that if you could take a lesson, that would help a lot. You swim the 3 other strokes well at the moment?
Say that you just try the fly, for 15meters or so. The whole thing as you picture it, how do you feel. Can you breathe well? Can you recover the arms easily while breathing? How long can you swim the full stroke without dying?
See my version of dolphin kick for newbies below...
YouTube- Fly DrillSide
Should be very relaxing to execute, it's fly, without the arms. Breathing and kick synchronization is pretty close to that of full stroke. You should feel like a seal that dives and surfaces and dives and surfaces etc. Dive get a fish then surface and breathe. A kick to dive, a kick to surface. As you could see on the clip, it's very close to one arm drill in timing aspects, but the good thing with the kick only is you get to learn to breathe in front without even using your arms. It's a fly balance sort of drill.
