The Butterfly Lane

How can I beat Peter in February? The good news is that I'm thinking about swimming the 1650 2 events before the showdown. + How the heck do people sustain 9 or 10 strokes per length in an SCY 200 fly? I would die like a dog after 75 yards. There is still some mechanical mystery here that I'm not grasping. How do people do 1650? My trick is I swim with a fly-happy bunch that thrives on feeling pain for long distances. It's kind of an adapt or die thing. We do a lot of sets like 4 x 100 convert free to fly on 1:30. We do occasional 500 easy fly sets. I also start each practice off with an easy 400 IM. By the time the meet rolls around, 200 fly doesn't seem quite so bad (it still hurts though). Some things I see in the video (note... I'm no expert at fly): - Your sdks are better than mine and you kick underwater a lot longer. Not sure if that is good or bad. I like to get O2 as soon as possible... probably way too soon. I'm not a very good SDKer either so I'm probably better off on top of the water. - Kind of hard to tell from the video but you seem have more of and up/down motion in your stroke than I do. I used to do a lot more of that when I slowed down my fly. Recently, I've worked on staying flatter with easy fly. It seems to help a lot. - I'm doing 9-10 strokes per length in the video because of some inefficiencies. IMO, I have excessive knee bend when I kick and my toes are pointed straight down. I've fixed a lot of that and I'm down to about 8 strokes/length. If I sdk'd like you do, I could probably go 6-7. Also, look at the Sept-Oct issue of Swimmer Magazine. That helped me a LOT with my hand position. That's my opinion. Hopefully someone will correct anything that is way out of line.

How can I beat Peter in February? The good news is that I'm thinking about swimming the 1650 2 events before the showdown. + How the heck do people sustain 9 or 10 strokes per length in an SCY 200 fly? I would die like a dog after 75 yards. There is still some mechanical mystery here that I'm not grasping. How do people do 1650? My trick is I swim with a fly-happy bunch that thrives on feeling pain for long distances. It's kind of an adapt or die thing. We do a lot of sets like 4 x 100 convert free to fly on 1:30. We do occasional 500 easy fly sets. I also start each practice off with an easy 400 IM. By the time the meet rolls around, 200 fly doesn't seem quite so bad (it still hurts though). Some things I see in the video (note... I'm no expert at fly): - Your sdks are better than mine and you kick underwater a lot longer. Not sure if that is good or bad. I like to get O2 as soon as possible... probably way too soon. I'm not a very good SDKer either so I'm probably better off on top of the water. - Kind of hard to tell from the video but you seem have more of and up/down motion in your stroke than I do. I used to do a lot more of that when I slowed down my fly. Recently, I've worked on staying flatter with easy fly. It seems to help a lot. - I'm doing 9-10 strokes per length in the video because of some inefficiencies. IMO, I have excessive knee bend when I kick and my toes are pointed straight down. I've fixed a lot of that and I'm down to about 8 strokes/length. If I sdk'd like you do, I could probably go 6-7. Also, look at the Sept-Oct issue of Swimmer Magazine. That helped me a LOT with my hand position. That's my opinion. Hopefully someone will correct anything that is way out of line.