Butterfly, beautiful to watch, difficult to train.
We SDK off every wall.
We're most likely to smack hands with each other and those beside us.
Fly's fun to sprint but no fun when the piano comes down
What did you do in practice today?
the breastroke lane
The Middle Distance Lane
The Backstroke Lane
The Butterfly Lane
The SDK Lane
The Taper Lane
The Distance Lane
The IM Lane
The Sprint Free Lane
The Pool Deck
You need to limit your undulation that you are doing --- no piking at your hips so much, so that there isn't a dive down with the hands. The hands of the best flyers (Sjostrom, Phelps, LeClos) are soft on entry and the last thing to enter the water.
Hey, Doc, I want to thank you for saying the hands are the LAST thing to enter the water. I can't tell you how many times I have heard to "land with soft hands!" I tried to concentrate on getting my arms around and not crashing my hands, but the emphasis was always the hands. I have never heard that the hands should be the last thing to enter the water, so I always thought the entire arm/hand unit should enter simultaneously. Changing my thinking and concentrating on the upper arms landing first has helped, I think. If nothing else, I'm not throwing a lot of water forward like I used to do in the past!
It also helped when you told me, "...no piking at your hips so much." Again, it changed the way I thought about my movement. I had been trying so hard to get down that dolphin undulation that I overdid it. My stroke is still far from where I want it to be, but I think this is an improvement:
www.youtube.com/watch
Doc, thanks so much for your helpful prescription! I think I'm on my way to a cure. :D
You need to limit your undulation that you are doing --- no piking at your hips so much, so that there isn't a dive down with the hands. The hands of the best flyers (Sjostrom, Phelps, LeClos) are soft on entry and the last thing to enter the water.
Hey, Doc, I want to thank you for saying the hands are the LAST thing to enter the water. I can't tell you how many times I have heard to "land with soft hands!" I tried to concentrate on getting my arms around and not crashing my hands, but the emphasis was always the hands. I have never heard that the hands should be the last thing to enter the water, so I always thought the entire arm/hand unit should enter simultaneously. Changing my thinking and concentrating on the upper arms landing first has helped, I think. If nothing else, I'm not throwing a lot of water forward like I used to do in the past!
It also helped when you told me, "...no piking at your hips so much." Again, it changed the way I thought about my movement. I had been trying so hard to get down that dolphin undulation that I overdid it. My stroke is still far from where I want it to be, but I think this is an improvement:
www.youtube.com/watch
Doc, thanks so much for your helpful prescription! I think I'm on my way to a cure. :D
