After a couple months of endurance + patience + this video, now I can swim butterfly. Before I dive into pool, i watch this clip, memorize every bit and then drill in the pool. Thank a lot and i am really enjoying the pool now.
I really like how this video broke it down step by step. Now I have the confidence to try it out and do well. In my opinion this is the most beautiful stroke.
Really helpful i am a 9th grader and tomorrow is my first swim meet and my coach is making me do the butterfly i dont think im that good but she does this helped learn when to breath and how my body should move to go faster thank you very much
Any of the four strokes takes a lot of effort and seems strenuous if you don't do it correctly. For example, before I learned on backstroke to get an inverted high elbow position, rotate my body correctly, and straighten my body out, backstroke felt so difficult and I just couldn't do it at all. Form decreases the effort necessary to go forward. It'll get a lot easier if you keep learning butterfly. A major beginner tip not mentioned in this video that a lot of people mess up is after you reenter the water after your breath you have to push your body downward to get more of a wave motion. Otherwise you'll just flounder on the top of the water like a dying whale
+TheIcecreamtaco YES! thank you. People always fail to mention the SECOND... thats right.... SECOND kick that sends you downward. This is one of the few videos that even mentions it
I'm starting my swimming lessons at April, and I'm really excited for it ! I have 2 in total, one from school and other from like you know outside of school.. I believe that I will improve :D a lot
Thank you for this, I really owe it to this video. My drill is the dolphin/breast stroke combo to build the necessary muscle endurance as it's really tiring on the core/quads.
If you start practicing the butterfly stoke, make sure that your legs, knees and feet are always touching each other. Also, it's not only the legs and arms you move, it's your entire body. So move your hips up and down, and your legs will automatically follow. Your head should be facing the end of the pool (where you're swimming towards), in order to maintain a perfect streamline. Also try to breath as less as possible. At last: when your arms are in the air; keep your wrists stretched.
This is a really helpful video for beginners, but if you want to make fly a heck of a lot easier, don't bring your arms all the way forward. Bring them forward so that they are about a two feet apart and then pull. Just focus on your kick mostly though. Your arms are only put in to keep you balanced. Just put all your strength and muscle to your dolphin kick :)
this's the best fin of butterfly i've ever seen, it's very helpful 4me 2 improve my skills. i visited ur blog but i couldnt understand 'cuz i havent known French:)
Im 11 and I was in desprate need to learn how to do butterfly, And I found this video and it helped me a whole lot! I got 4th place in butterfly! Thanks!
Excellent video. For an effortless butterfly you have to get into the habit of doing seamless dolphin kicks, on the front, side to side, and on your back. I always do dolphin kick sequences in between my drills as a way of relaxing. If I am doing a freestyle drill for instance, I will put in 200 yards, back and forth, followed by 100 yards dolphin, and then back to freestyle. Its hard at first, but with time, you get into the habit of using the dolphin movement to relax, much in the same way that breaststroke is the default stroke for relaxing when doing rigorous drills. Once your muscle memory gets used to relaxing in dolphin, your power in full butterfly increases tremendously. The most strenuous part in getting to do a smooth butterfly is getting your arms out of the water. I have experimented with doing a powerful kick when your head is in the water, and then a lighter kick when you need to get out and breathe. Its also a way to rest and stabilize in between strokes. It took me a few months of daily practice to put all of this together into a decent butterfly.
This video is seriously good. Had one session after this and i swear i was doing the fly by the end of it. It's by no means perfect but the hard part is done, i just need to practice, practice and practice!
Bello video de un estilo de mariposa bien ejecutado, buena brazado, ataque fuerte al agua y patada simétrica para propulsión! Felicitaciones. Me voy a nadar mariposa, chao!!
It took me more less one month to force my mind to do all that stuff. It's good to practice one thing at a time. Don't rush, and if your tired you'd better w8 for few moments to catch a breath instead of rushing it and doing it wrong which your brain will code.
@IcarusThe1 1/ Try to practice dolphin kicks with fins, so you won't make any frog kick. 2/ Fins are just used to make you feel the dolphin kick movement, so you don't have to use strength so much. 3/ try with fins-> step 1: dolphin kicks, step2: dolphin kicks+ arms breaststroke step 3: change your arm breaststroke in arms butterfly. If you can do step 2, step 3 won't be difficult for you. Finally, try without fins. It's very easy, you can do it;-)
Wow this actually looks a lot harder than I thought. I can do the dolphin kick and it's fun but really tiring after a while but i have yet to learn how to use arms with it. Looks fun though compared to breaststroke, just seems more tiring.
The thing about butterfly is that you have to learn it's accually a really relaxed stroke.. Just flow with the body.. Also your body follows your head so keep your head in the right directions.. Train a lot, that's just the best thing to do.. It never works perfect the first time.
@TheLeilisa This depends on the length of the pool you are swimming in. If the pool is Olympic sized then the ideal height is just under 50m. Basically the taller you are the faster you would be able to swim. Unfortunately you can't change your height to make yourself a better swimmer so you need to practice instead.
i think this video is really useful and nice. Thanks for posting it :) i'm currently learning the butterfly and am at the breaststroke arm-dolphin kick stage...somehow, there's a tendency for me to lapse into the breaststroke kick at times though and when it happens it hurts my ankle somewhat.
@TheLeilisa This depends on the length of the pool you are swimming in. If the pool is Olympic sized then the ideal height is just under 50m. Basically the taller you are the faster you would be able to swim.
@SeeDipFu Thanks! I'm trying to visualize this advice..,.showing this proper movement on a video would help too (and showing incorrect coordination to contrast)...Great video. I'm getting there! Butterfly is my favourite stroke, but I'm still quite weak. :-)
by far, very well explained. I will definitely give it a try. I have one question - while breathing every two strokes, do you still follow the 2 dolphin kick, one arm stroke pattern? si, you would have done 4 dolphin kicks when you take your head to breathe?
Follow the 2 dolphin kick. Try breathing every 4 strokes instead of 2 to get the rhythm ingrained. Then move to breathing every two. For rhythm, try telling yourself: "postman pat, postman pat, postman pat, with a black and white cat." Do that throughout. Begin the stroke on " postman pat "----that is-----stroke, kick. Arms enter on "postman" and kick on "pat" and on and on. Its a great way to ingrain rhythm while doing the full stroke---but with 2 dolphin kicks, not 4. Reply
@ngsansan If you want to learn faster and feel the good movements, you can practice with fins. Fins are so useful when you learn butterfly;) Keep it up!
@YouthFreedomFighters I'd also like to know! What are the advantages of Butterfly over other strokes? Thanks so much for posting this video, I'm going to practice my dolphin now!
Not too long (because too heavy) not too short (because not powerful) Standard/Medium size would be perfect and don't forget: Fins are just used to make you feel the dolphin kick movement, so you don't have to use strength so much.
I always wondered how deep you dive your head in after recovering hands. Is it better to have more amplitude with hips coming out of surface or less amplitude with entire body stay close to surface of water?
When I was young my arms were slendy and my delts were too weak even for girl standards. I made a comeback 10 years later, after I achieved 12x3 lateral and side curls with 45Ibs dumbbells. And I still get tired after 100m ( can swim freestyle 200m no prob), probably having massive leg and lats drag and such.. lol
I'm not looking to be a competitive swimmer. I just really want to learn butterfly. I do a fair breaststroke and backstroke. Any tips for someone who is about 80 pounds overweight working on butterfly?
help pls. for the dolphin, what angle should i be bending my legs for the kick? is 90 degree too much? i already know how to put my legs together for the kick, i just don't feel like going fast enough. i still go faster with freestyle kicks, even though the dolphin should be the fastest in water. so i know i'm doing it wrong. i'll go watch dolphin tutorial vids now. but any relevant reply would be appreciated.
cool, I was just wondering how get better endurance of this storke? I can only do 40m and then I get tired and can't lift up my arm. I was thinking of working on back muscle. Would that help?
How come when I try to practice the dolphin kick my butt comes up out of the water and I feel like my feet are also coming out of the water? When she does it (the kick alone) she stays completely under the water the whole time. o_O
Would it help me to improve my dolphin kick if ill will practice with sport flippers? I've never been in swimming training but I think that i have strength to practice this style. I think that my body is going at bad angle because of kicks what are 50 dolphin and 50 frog style :D. sorry about bad english. What could i do to improve my bf?
The only strokes I'm good at is either breast or free.My teacher says everything is good until I can bring my feet up in the water.;-; .But to all those who are new.Chill and relax.Swimming is fun
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After a couple months of endurance + patience + this video, now I can swim butterfly.
Before I dive into pool, i watch this clip, memorize every bit and then drill in the pool.
Thank a lot and i am really enjoying the pool now.
I really like how this video broke it down step by step. Now I have the confidence to try it out and do well. In my opinion this is the most beautiful stroke.
Really helpful i am a 9th grader and tomorrow is my first swim meet and my coach is making me do the butterfly i dont think im that good but she does this helped learn when to breath and how my body should move to go faster thank you very much
Any of the four strokes takes a lot of effort and seems strenuous if you don't do it correctly. For example, before I learned on backstroke to get an inverted high elbow position, rotate my body correctly, and straighten my body out, backstroke felt so difficult and I just couldn't do it at all. Form decreases the effort necessary to go forward. It'll get a lot easier if you keep learning butterfly. A major beginner tip not mentioned in this video that a lot of people mess up is after you reenter the water after your breath you have to push your body downward to get more of a wave motion. Otherwise you'll just flounder on the top of the water like a dying whale
+TheIcecreamtaco YES! thank you. People always fail to mention the SECOND... thats right.... SECOND kick that sends you downward. This is one of the few videos that even mentions it
+sLevnZelevn Actually, this video does not mention the second kick, but it absolutely should
Thumb up for the 'dying whale'. That would make a good band name
bruh I did 1 lap of this took me 3 weeks to recover LMAO
I'm starting my swimming lessons at April, and I'm really excited for it ! I have 2 in total, one from school and other from like you know outside of school.. I believe that I will improve :D a lot
so did you improve?
look so effortless but its absolutely not
it's all about timing!
and being ale to relax enough to breathe well.
Looks difficult af! I've just "dived" into the world of swimming as a workout and I'm still having trouble with my crawl and breaststroke
Thank you. This video was great. I appreciated the under water and surface views. Made things a lot clearer to me. Extremely helpful.
Thank you for this, I really owe it to this video. My drill is the dolphin/breast stroke combo to build the necessary muscle endurance as it's really tiring on the core/quads.
Best tips I got yet. Thank so much
Beautiful!!! One of my faves
This video has helped my lap swimming so much! Thanks!
Great video! One of the best butterfly swim lesson
If you start practicing the butterfly stoke, make sure that your legs, knees and feet are always touching each other.
Also, it's not only the legs and arms you move, it's your entire body. So move your hips up and down, and your legs will automatically follow.
Your head should be facing the end of the pool (where you're swimming towards), in order to maintain a perfect streamline. Also try to breath as less as possible.
At last: when your arms are in the air; keep your wrists stretched.
I'm totally addicted to this video. I liked it very much. Thanks for making this video. It totally inspire me.
This is a really helpful video for beginners, but if you want to make fly a heck of a lot easier, don't bring your arms all the way forward. Bring them forward so that they are about a two feet apart and then pull. Just focus on your kick mostly though. Your arms are only put in to keep you balanced. Just put all your strength and muscle to your dolphin kick :)
Really awesome the way you break it down!
Very well explained !! Good job
this video actually helped :) im swimming my first buterfly in my first IM and i feel alitle better thanks to this video
this's the best fin of butterfly i've ever seen, it's very helpful 4me 2 improve my skills.
i visited ur blog but i couldnt understand 'cuz i havent known French:)
Im 11 and I was in desprate need to learn how to do butterfly, And I found this video and it helped me a whole lot! I got 4th place in butterfly! Thanks!
This is a helpful demonstration. I definitely recomend doing lots of practice with the dolphine kick, it really helped me out.
Her stroke looks graceful both above and under water. Rarely see someone do that so good.
very useful... broken down the stroke very well, cammera angles are great
no doubt the most helpful butterfly video on youtube.
oh, and catchy beat.
Excellent video. For an effortless butterfly you have to get into the habit of doing seamless dolphin kicks, on the front, side to side, and on your back. I always do dolphin kick sequences in between my drills as a way of relaxing. If I am doing a freestyle drill for instance, I will put in 200 yards, back and forth, followed by 100 yards dolphin, and then back to freestyle. Its hard at first, but with time, you get into the habit of using the dolphin movement to relax, much in the same way that breaststroke is the default stroke for relaxing when doing rigorous drills. Once your muscle memory gets used to relaxing in dolphin, your power in full butterfly increases tremendously. The most strenuous part in getting to do a smooth butterfly is getting your arms out of the water. I have experimented with doing a powerful kick when your head is in the water, and then a lighter kick when you need to get out and breathe. Its also a way to rest and stabilize in between strokes. It took me a few months of daily practice to put all of this together into a decent butterfly.
@everybodyswim1 Thanks! From a non-swimmer a few months ago, i've grown to love swimming and enjoy its benefits.. will keep perservering at it :)
This video is seriously good. Had one session after this and i swear i was doing the fly by the end of it. It's by no means perfect but the hard part is done, i just need to practice, practice and practice!
Beautiful video and style. Keep the good work! :)
Beautiful!
Thanks! I'll try these tips in during practice tomorrow. :)
this is the best tutorial so far
Thx for this video....very helpful....hv subscribed.
Wow! This is really helpful! Thank you! You are awesome and cute too.
I love this video it helped me improve my butterfly
This is a really good video.
Excellent video showing how to learn this difficult stroke
Explained very well.
@SeeDipFu Thanks for sharing your experience!
thanks for the tips very helpful im trying to learn the butterfly stroke
I love the background music! Great tutorial too! Now if only I don't embarrass myself at the pool...
Helpful, thanks!
Bello video de un estilo de mariposa bien ejecutado, buena brazado, ataque fuerte al agua y patada simétrica para propulsión! Felicitaciones. Me voy a nadar mariposa, chao!!
It took me more less one month to force my mind to do all that stuff. It's good to practice one thing at a time. Don't rush, and if your tired you'd better w8 for few moments to catch a breath instead of rushing it and doing it wrong which your brain will code.
Beautiful .........................
@realrascal Good job! I'm happy to hear that ;)
Thank you so much!
I became completely know . .
@IcarusThe1
1/ Try to practice dolphin kicks with fins, so you won't make any frog kick.
2/ Fins are just used to make you feel the dolphin kick movement, so you don't have to use strength so much.
3/ try with fins-> step 1: dolphin kicks, step2: dolphin kicks+ arms breaststroke step 3: change your arm breaststroke in arms butterfly. If you can do step 2, step 3 won't be difficult for you. Finally, try without fins. It's very easy, you can do it;-)
HELPFUL best yet
yes, it can. depends on your technique, training frequency, also body shape (both figurately and literally).
Wow this actually looks a lot harder than I thought. I can do the dolphin kick and it's fun but really tiring after a while but i have yet to learn how to use arms with it. Looks fun though compared to breaststroke, just seems more tiring.
beautyful!
Thank you! I now can do it :D
The thing about butterfly is that you have to learn it's accually a really relaxed stroke.. Just flow with the body.. Also your body follows your head so keep your head in the right directions.. Train a lot, that's just the best thing to do.. It never works perfect the first time.
@TheLeilisa This depends on the length of the pool you are swimming in. If the pool is Olympic sized then the ideal height is just under 50m.
Basically the taller you are the faster you would be able to swim. Unfortunately you can't change your height to make yourself a better swimmer so you need to practice instead.
After watching this video, I think that I can fix my errors this afternoon, when I go swimming. So excited!! \^0^/
i think this video is really useful and nice. Thanks for posting it :)
i'm currently learning the butterfly and am at the breaststroke arm-dolphin kick stage...somehow, there's a tendency for me to lapse into the breaststroke kick at times though and when it happens it hurts my ankle somewhat.
@TheLeilisa This depends on the length of the pool you are swimming in. If the pool is Olympic sized then the ideal height is just under 50m. Basically the taller you are the faster you would be able to swim.
@SeeDipFu Thanks! I'm trying to visualize this advice..,.showing this proper movement on a video would help too (and showing incorrect coordination to contrast)...Great video. I'm getting there! Butterfly is my favourite stroke, but I'm still quite weak. :-)
Ah, this video helped out aloooooooooooot!
@everybodyswim1 thank you for you advise! subscribed.
by far, very well explained. I will definitely give it a try. I have one question - while breathing every two strokes, do you still follow the 2 dolphin kick, one arm stroke pattern? si, you would have done 4 dolphin kicks when you take your head to breathe?
Yeah, that is correct
Follow the 2 dolphin kick. Try breathing every 4 strokes instead of 2 to get the rhythm ingrained. Then move to breathing every two. For rhythm, try telling yourself: "postman pat, postman pat, postman pat, with a black and white cat." Do that throughout. Begin the stroke on " postman pat "----that is-----stroke, kick. Arms enter on "postman" and kick on "pat" and on and on. Its a great way to ingrain rhythm while doing the full stroke---but with 2 dolphin kicks, not 4.
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Great! Now I have a good idea how to practice!
Wow ma'am you swim underwater so great
I feel good because I found this movie😊 It’s just I want to watch. I wonder if I could swim better🏊🏻♂️
@ngsansan If you want to learn faster and feel the good movements, you can practice with fins. Fins are so useful when you learn butterfly;) Keep it up!
@Khongorts Thank you for your message. I will buy fins and try the butterfly.
@YouthFreedomFighters I'd also like to know! What are the advantages of Butterfly over other strokes? Thanks so much for posting this video, I'm going to practice my dolphin now!
great vid
That's mesmerizing... Probably insanely harder than it looks.
Amazing
Wow I think this video will be supper helpful.
Hola! estoy aprendiendo a nadar mariposa asi que voy a probar a ver que tal me va y les cuento. Gracias por el video. Saludos!
Good..I will try
Not too long (because too heavy) not too short (because not powerful) Standard/Medium size would be perfect and don't forget: Fins are just used to make you feel the dolphin kick movement, so you don't have to use strength so much.
I always wondered how deep you dive your head in after recovering hands. Is it better to have more amplitude with hips coming out of surface or less amplitude with entire body stay close to surface of water?
good stuff.......hey i swim the butterfly too......(i used get 2nd or 1st in races)
When I was young my arms were slendy and my delts were too weak even for girl standards. I made a comeback 10 years later, after I achieved 12x3 lateral and side curls with 45Ibs dumbbells. And I still get tired after 100m ( can swim freestyle 200m no prob), probably having massive leg and lats drag and such.. lol
very helpful! is this there like this for breaststroke?
I'm 11 and I'm not bad at butterfly but my brother (7) needed help so this really help
@Vicky Bro
Cafe del Mar, vol. 11
Tactful - No Fear
butterfly is my favorite stroke
The most graceful stroke regarding technique and body control I've seen. What's the name of the female swimmer? Really beautiful
Thanks.
I'm not looking to be a competitive swimmer. I just really want to learn butterfly. I do a fair breaststroke and backstroke. Any tips for someone who is about 80 pounds overweight working on butterfly?
NICE !
help pls.
for the dolphin, what angle should i be bending my legs for the kick? is 90 degree too much? i already know how to put my legs together for the kick, i just don't feel like going fast enough. i still go faster with freestyle kicks, even though the dolphin should be the fastest in water. so i know i'm doing it wrong. i'll go watch dolphin tutorial vids now. but any relevant reply would be appreciated.
@everybodyswim1 What size of fin am I supposed to use? I have long fin and it was not easy at all... Shorter works better than too long?
cool, I was just wondering how get better endurance of this storke? I can only do 40m and then I get tired and can't lift up my arm. I was thinking of working on back muscle. Would that help?
I never feel bored to see her BeautyFly...
How come when I try to practice the dolphin kick my butt comes up out of the water and I feel like my feet are also coming out of the water? When she does it (the kick alone) she stays completely under the water the whole time. o_O
lol. im 12 too and i did learn it in 2 days.
Omfg I have to learn this is one day
I am convinced swimming is a art!
that pool is deep!
Oh . Quá ok good
Would it help me to improve my dolphin kick if ill will practice with sport flippers? I've never been in swimming training but I think that i have strength to practice this style. I think that my body is going at bad angle because of kicks what are 50 dolphin and 50 frog style :D. sorry about bad english. What could i do to improve my bf?
aaah..this really helps
The only strokes I'm good at is either breast or free.My teacher says everything is good until I can bring my feet up in the water.;-; .But to all those who are new.Chill and relax.Swimming is fun
How is this not the first video that comes up when I searched "How to swim Butterfly"????????????????????????