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
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Hi everyone! I started to swim nearly 2 years ago, almost exclusively freestyle. I recently started to try to learn fly just to have some variety to my workout. However, i can barely complete a stroke (with both arms) so just to practice the rhythm, i’m doing single armed drills.
Nonetheless, i really would like to be able to complete a full butterfly stroke with both arms. Whenever i do attempt it, I find it so hard to finish my pull. When my arms reach somewhere under my midsection, that’s where i experience the most pressure from the water which seem to be slowing down my pull. During this phase, it sometimes feel like i’m pulling through mud (for lack of any better description i can think of). By the time i do complete the pull near my hips, my upper torso seem to have already gone down. And maybe because of this, i’m unable to get a clean recovery and instead have my arms wading through water during the recovery.
Any tips that you can share so i can be able to accelerate my arms through the latter part of the pull? Any drills which you think can help me with it?
Sorry if I don’t have any videos - but i do hope you guys get the picture.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Hi everyone! I started to swim nearly 2 years ago, almost exclusively freestyle. I recently started to try to learn fly just to have some variety to my workout. However, i can barely complete a stroke (with both arms) so just to practice the rhythm, i’m doing single armed drills.
Nonetheless, i really would like to be able to complete a full butterfly stroke with both arms. Whenever i do attempt it, I find it so hard to finish my pull. When my arms reach somewhere under my midsection, that’s where i experience the most pressure from the water which seem to be slowing down my pull. During this phase, it sometimes feel like i’m pulling through mud (for lack of any better description i can think of). By the time i do complete the pull near my hips, my upper torso seem to have already gone down. And maybe because of this, i’m unable to get a clean recovery and instead have my arms wading through water during the recovery.
Any tips that you can share so i can be able to accelerate my arms through the latter part of the pull? Any drills which you think can help me with it?
Sorry if I don’t have any videos - but i do hope you guys get the picture.
Thanks in advance for your help!
