I'm interested in what you think about Caeleb Dressel's kick that comes at the end of his arm pull during the beginning of the breathing phase of the stroke. If you watch underwater footage of him swimming fly he bends his knees to almost a 90 degree angle on that kick. You can see this in a lot of other high level swimmers as well.
Technique guidelines work well to a point. Each person's body is different. At the end of the day that aim is to be as fast as possible. If a large fly kick works, then do that
I think that once you have mastered this technique and start to understand the water flow, you can begin to work on your strength on your kicks and gradually increase the angle of the kick itself. But for a beginner it will force them to drown and not stay on the surface enough because timing and strength just isn't there
I'm interested in what u think about Micheal Phelps breathing pattern? He breaths every stroke. This is because otherwise ur pelvis sinks to low and u have to use more strength to get the pelvis higher at the next stroke. This is also the most common seen at the Olympics.
He breaths every stroke because men are strong enough. woman however either do 2 trokes without breath or 1. Olympic woman swimmers are more likely to do 1 stroke then breath the next stroke however if you are a competitive swimmer who hasnt past the age of 16 for men and probably 18 for woman you will do 2 strokes down without a breath I do 2 down because I am a 10 year old competitive swimmer and I have a gala coming up and I am doing 50 fly and my coach tells me to do 2 down. Also wish me luck
@@naddog1996 First of all GOOD LUCK ma little boy. Secondly, did u read my comment??? Phelps himself and his coach r saying it is easier to breath every stroke instead of every second stroke cuz ur pelvis sinks too low. If u want to know the reasons watch Chaosmos Space Micheal Phelps Butterfly training 2002 on RU-vid or click the link in the second answer (didn't put it in here cuz RU-vid has problems with links in comments and u should be able to read this message). Edit: 4 the video u can watch the whole video or u start at 4:45 to get the coache's arguments.
@@uchihasasuke6275 also he breaths every stroke because he needs to. His body needs the oxygen to operate at that peak performance. That is also why breathing every stoke in butterfly is very common at the elite level swimmers. Also why elite sprinters breath only to one side (ie breath every other stroke). There are also many other reasons to breath a certain way, looking at a competitor, timing, etc or just your personal preference.
It honestly just depends on the person sometimes. A lot of people breath every stroke because they need oxygen and they’ve mastered the ability to breathe every stroke. For me I breathe every 2 because my stroke feels weird when I breathe every stroke and I feel like I go slower when I breathe every stroke.
It will be easier for you to brush your chin against the water when you breath because it takes up less energy than bringing your chest and your head out
I used to bend my arms but now I worked on it and keeping my but up when I’m doing dolphin kick lol now this season in long corse if corrected by butterflie!
My butterfly stroke is horrible and I struggle to swim 25m, but I do not make any of those mistakes. I think my problem is that my ondulation is awful because I did not figure out how to engange my chest in the ondulation. If I swim backwards (face up), I think my ondulation is ok, but if I swim with my face down, I do not feel the ondulation in my chest, only in my hips and below
Practice undulation with your arms on your sides, pushing your chin forward to breathe every four kicks. Keep your neck steady, focus on lifting and lowering your pelvis and engaging your chest. progress from there to half-pulls (with underwater recovery), on breaths, and then on every 2 kicks, Full pull with overwater recovery, on every breath and try Fly arms with flutter kick, forcing you to engage your chest Best of luck!
I’ve been swimming for 11 years (out of 17) I do none of those but I can barely swim 100m of butterfly. I can roast most people at 50m but I die after the third length
My practice lane has seven people in it! That on top of circle swimming means no room for fly. Our lanes are also quite skinny (small pool) so we rarely get to get a full wingspan. Not fun.
I can't seem to increase my speed while doing this stroke....like i can move quite fast with the other strokes...but while doing this one i hardly seem to move forward...
I'm trying to break the habit of breathing every stroke. It's going pretty well as of yet. I had a meet the other day and lost my goggles immediately following my dive and took in a good bit of water. Couldn't breathe, and was about to abort the race. I then hit the wall and my body went into automatic open-turn mode and I kept going. Managed to drop six seconds off my old time for a solid 42 second 50yrd. It's my second year of swim and that completely blindsided me. And felt awesome.
I think the s formation or whatever is more for like bringing your head out of the water smoother I don't know that's how I was taught my 100-m butterfly was under a minute I mean that's not good but it's nowhere near bad and that was in high school with not trying and practice smoking pot never swam off season it never really tried
@@FaresKsebati incorrect, a figure 8 motion is most efficient. I used to swim 55.2 for 100m fly as a 14-15yr old and that’s how I was taught through multiple swim clubs
