Hi, this morning I did a few butterfly lengths to get the timing right. My previous post was pretty
accurate. Two kicks per stroke. One on top of the water to get you to dive in. The second kick
starts right as you finish the glyde and go into the pull face. This adds propulsion to the pull and
helps you launch out of the water. Try to do this really slowly. I'll give you lots of power. I read
a while back that soviet freestylers (in the olden times) used to train by doing sets of 200 mts
fly. When they would go back to 200 and above freestyle sets, they would be able to fly (go fast,
not swim butterfly) in the water.
Try to swim non-stop fly drills intermingled with your freestyle. Ie, swim 200 free, 50 fly, 200
free 50 fly, 200 free 50. When you go from fly to free, you seem to float in the water. Whenever you
swim your next 800 mts freestyle event, it will be piece of cake. Add as much fly as you can handle
and as soon as you finish your fly, recover while swimming free.
Next open water swim, or tri, when you are stuck in the middle of the pacific going AT, you'll have
the confidence to swim yourself back to an aerobic pace.
Andres
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> > Seriously. How can you get the two parts coordinated? I have trouble with it, and swim team
> > starts in a month or two, so please give me some thought/opinions.
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> This is what I do. It has taken me a long time to figure it out but finally I got it, I think.
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> when the arms are going into the water, you should pretend that you are diving into the water. At
> that poing you should be also kicking down, so that your lower body should be straight and so
> should your upper body.
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> Once you complete your glide and your dive, you should curve your lower back ondulating to begin
> to bring your body up towards the surface again. During the ondulation that makes your body point
> upwards start your pull phase, and you begin to bend your knees. As your arms complete the pull,
> you should kick to help bring your body out of the water. this is the important kick because it
> helps you lift your shoulders and helping your arms. otherwise, the only thing that you are using
> is your arms to lift it and that is tough. Once your body comes out of the water and your arms go
> over the water, you bend your knees and kick down to propel your body into the dive.
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> Again: 2 kicks. One when your body is out of the water to propel your body into a dive/glide which
> makes body point down. With arms gliding, curve back to make upper body point up and start pull
> phase. As you complete pull pahse, kick to lift shoulders out of water. come out of water and
> start to dive while kicking to propel body into dive.
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> I used to kick randomly and it seemed completely chaotic. At some point I started focusing in the
> ondulation, and the kick followed naturally. I still suck, and can only do two lengths in a row
> before shitching styles.
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> Did this make sense?
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> Andres