OMG…thanks, Tony! I’m trying to learn this stroke and can honestly say I’m doing all the wrong things in this video 😂. I’m hopeful that it’ll get better after having watched this video 😊
As I indeed struggle with two of the problems shown here (proper timing of breathing and bent arms in the recovery phase), I'm really delighted to have found this video. Now I know how to best deal with these issues. Thanks a lot. Greetings from Germany. Great channel :))
I Like the Chin/Surf technique ie Swim more through the water it keeps the "body core" stronger and true, The "Pinkie Tilt" approach sounds like a quicker entry for the hands to pull water on The Fly 🙂 Will be practicing that technique 👍
Hi, can you plz advice whether an aged male swimmer who is obese(above 112 kgs in weight) can learn to do good butterfly? I mean its about me & I'm 45 yrs old , I know good freestyle in deep open waters like in large ponds (with depth above 20 feet or more). And I can also do light backstroke for short distance(As water gets into my nose if i do it without nose-clips & fast for more than few meters, otherwise no problems) in deep waters as well as standing in deep waters but only problem I face in butterfly & that is bcoz of my pot belly & also I cant time my kick as well as maintain that strong dolphin kick, even if I try I cant raise my head even after 2 fly strokes to breath!! So plz advice , whether it is wise to learn butterfly with my weight around 113 kgs?
Hi Hungry Shark, thanks for reaching out. I would advise you to keep at it. Try purchasing a swim snorkel. This way, you can focus on the technique of the butterfly stroke. Start with improving one arm butterfly drill. A few strokes with one and then the other. This drill will help you get better timing in your kick and breathing. Let us know if you have any further questions. We are happy to help.
@@hungryshark9922 Hi Hungry Shark! Last month, I took part in a 1-day butterfly swimming seminar in my home country (Germany). One of my fellow participants was a lady which one -seeing her on the street etc. - usually would call quite obese BUT: She was an excellent swimmer and even is an active water polo player in our national Ladies' league!! She perforned very well in butterfly at the end of the day (In contrast to me, by the way, I need more practice, but I'm regularly excercising and trying to constantly ameliorate my skills step-by-step!). Moreover, also the gentleman who was the best one in our training group wasn't very slim (OK, he was tall, maybe about 1,85-1,90 meters), but I'm sure his weight also was around 95-100 kgs. So I really would encourage you to try. It might also be helpful to use fins to get a good body position and feeling for the movements (kicks, undulation etc.) The fins will also help you in the upward movement. Maybe, before buying some, ask your local pool's staff if they have a pair "on stock" somewhere. Some public swimming pools have a room with all kinds of swimming equipment and training accessories. My last advice might sound a bit funny but maybe if really your belly (which probably drags you down somehow) is "problem number one", a sort of total body swimsuit might help you (Instead of wearing jammers or swim shorts.) - For instance from neoprene which would also make it MUCH more easy for you to stay at the surface of the water. Pick one without arms, though as you need maximum mobility in your shoulders for butterfly swimming. Respectively, when you're in the swimming/diving store, try to make butterfly arm movements in the suit when trying it on. If the material is too stiff (I never tried swimming butterfly in neoprene myself, it was just an idea that spontaneously came across my mind), don't buy it. It's great you go to the pool. Swimming will generally help you to continuously get rid of one or the other extra pound and also your cardiovascular health will improve. Stay with swimming regularly. Good luck for your butterfly swimming aims!! :D 💪
@@justitia5283 Thank you so much for the good advice. I'll surely try some of those ideas like buying fins or snorkels. But currently I'm lil financially weak ,so with time I'll try those out for sure! 🙂
With all due respect the two kick drill part of the video is a mess: the side view actually shows the Biondi drill not the drill that's described . The video jumps and removes critical connections... sometimes the description is not the drill that is shown. ( Honestly,). ..in the smoothed out 1-2-3-4-,"bring your hands back and kick"- she isn't actually doing that- she's doing a Biondi, same for the last aerial view its kick every time she pulls not kick when she is bringing the hands back to the start.. which is the drill that is described in Cokie Lepinski's article of US masters this month, we see her kicking only on the pull, not on the hands coming back to the start- ( we do see this in the beginning but then the video skips the critical finish, and we do see it in some of the middle on the aerial view, but not the end of the drill). Take a look, see if I am correct?? That is, he is conflating two drills. First the oral instructions describe the Biondi drill ( " sneak your hands back to the front of your body"). Then The aerial view does show the Cokie drill at first- kick arms pulling, kick arms coming back to being pressed against the rib cage at 90degree angle, kind of like a little Angel fish ( big body, little wings), but the view from the side only shows one kick on the pull not on the "sneakback" of the arms, so that's not the 1-2-3-4 described, its a Biondi Or Mary T Meagher or whatever you want to call it that he's describing..
She's only kicking on the pull not on the return of the hands to the front as in the Cokie Lepinski Drill, which is verbatim what Tony is describing on the "smoothed out version". She isn't doing what Tony is saying. She's only kicking on the pull, half the time that the drill requires.
@@benjaminteitelbaum1073That's wrong. Sure, she's executing ONE ""complete" dolphin kick (which is btw. why this is called "second kick drill"), but she does the downkick on the pull and the upkick when getting her hands back in front. So "Kick and Kick" is correct :D It was just meant differently from wht you had expected.
@@justitia5283 Ok,, but is Kick and Kick not two kicks? I guess I dont understand. It does seem to me that the "first " kick does happen when the arms are doing the underwater recovery. No? Please clarify. Thanks in advance. I mean is it a two kick drill or just a ONE ( your capitals appreciated by me) kick drill, on half of the stroke ( kind of like the Matt bind drill... )
@@justitia5283 Ok,, but is Kick and Kick not two kicks? I guess I dont understand. It does seem to me that the "first " kick does happen when the arms are doing the underwater recovery. No? Please clarify. Thanks in advance. I mean is it a two kick drill or just a ONE ( your capitals appreciated by me) kick drill, on half of the stroke ( kind of like the Matt Biond drill... )? PS I was signed in as my partner, oops.
Hi, this is one of the best Butterfly swim tutorials thus far. Thanks! 😊
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Thank you so much for the kind remark.
OMG…thanks, Tony! I’m trying to learn this stroke and can honestly say I’m doing all the wrong things in this video 😂. I’m hopeful that it’ll get better after having watched this video 😊
The first mistake is my struggle for butterfly swimming,half ending hand pushing synchronized with leg kick was solved it. Amazing
As a 76-yr-old swimmer of 3 yr-experience i love this video. tnks a million times from Japan
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Your 76 n still able to do butterfly. U legend
Great video❤
This was very helpful. Thank you!
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@@itgetter9 Fantastic!
As I indeed struggle with two of the problems shown here (proper timing of breathing and bent arms in the recovery phase), I'm really delighted to have found this video. Now I know how to best deal with these issues. Thanks a lot.
Greetings from Germany. Great channel :))
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I Like the Chin/Surf technique ie Swim more through the water it keeps the "body core" stronger and true, The "Pinkie Tilt" approach sounds like a quicker entry for the hands to pull water on The Fly 🙂 Will be practicing that technique 👍
Thank's for Your helpful & lesson!!!! ✊🙏🫶👍🫶👍🫶
Thanks. Very helpful. I'll do tomorrow on my swim.
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Excellent video, I will practice the drills to improve it. 😀
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Great video! Can't wait to try these drills out in the pool😎
Best instruction on the fly ever!
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Useful, thanks.
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Thanks Tony
Great Video🎉
Please explain in detail regarding arm pull
A real theoretic!!
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The last tip was what was slowing me down - perform 2nd kick with arms above head pointing forward. It shaved seconds off my 100m fly instantly😊
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Love this!!
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Fabulous!
Was that a fish swimming by at 1:47 lol
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Hi, can you plz advice whether an aged male swimmer who is obese(above 112 kgs in weight) can learn to do good butterfly? I mean its about me & I'm 45 yrs old , I know good freestyle in deep open waters like in large ponds (with depth above 20 feet or more). And I can also do light backstroke for short distance(As water gets into my nose if i do it without nose-clips & fast for more than few meters, otherwise no problems) in deep waters as well as standing in deep waters but only problem I face in butterfly & that is bcoz of my pot belly & also I cant time my kick as well as maintain that strong dolphin kick, even if I try I cant raise my head even after 2 fly strokes to breath!! So plz advice , whether it is wise to learn butterfly with my weight around 113 kgs?
Hi Hungry Shark, thanks for reaching out. I would advise you to keep at it. Try purchasing a swim snorkel. This way, you can focus on the technique of the butterfly stroke. Start with improving one arm butterfly drill. A few strokes with one and then the other. This drill will help you get better timing in your kick and breathing. Let us know if you have any further questions. We are happy to help.
@@USMastersSwimming Thank you Sir for the reply. So greater body-weight is not an impediment to swimming good butterfly??
@@hungryshark9922 Hi Hungry Shark!
Last month, I took part in a 1-day butterfly swimming seminar in my home country (Germany).
One of my fellow participants was a lady which one -seeing her on the street etc. - usually would call quite obese BUT: She was an excellent swimmer and even is an active water polo player in our national Ladies' league!!
She perforned very well in butterfly at the end of the day (In contrast to me, by the way, I need more practice, but I'm regularly excercising and trying to constantly ameliorate my skills step-by-step!).
Moreover, also the gentleman who was the best one in our training group wasn't very slim (OK, he was tall, maybe about 1,85-1,90 meters), but I'm sure his weight also was around 95-100 kgs.
So I really would encourage you to try.
It might also be helpful to use fins to get a good body position and feeling for the movements (kicks, undulation etc.)
The fins will also help you in the upward movement.
Maybe, before buying some, ask your local pool's staff if they have a pair "on stock" somewhere. Some public swimming pools have a room with all kinds of swimming equipment and training accessories.
My last advice might sound a bit funny but maybe if really your belly (which probably drags you down somehow) is "problem number one", a sort of total body swimsuit might help you (Instead of wearing jammers or swim shorts.) - For instance from neoprene which would also make it MUCH more easy for you to stay at the surface of the water. Pick one without arms, though as you need maximum mobility in your shoulders for butterfly swimming. Respectively, when you're in the swimming/diving store, try to make butterfly arm movements in the suit when trying it on. If the material is too stiff (I never tried swimming butterfly in neoprene myself, it was just an idea that spontaneously came across my mind), don't buy it.
It's great you go to the pool. Swimming will generally help you to continuously get rid of one or the other extra pound and also your cardiovascular health will improve. Stay with swimming regularly. Good luck for your butterfly swimming aims!! :D 💪
@@justitia5283 Thank you so much for the good advice. I'll surely try some of those ideas like buying fins or snorkels. But currently I'm lil financially weak ,so with time I'll try those out for sure! 🙂
@@justitia5283 I swim butterfly in my farmer John wetsuit. Helps!
I throw up every time I do butterfly. Any tips on how to not do this?
Try doing one-arm drills and work on body position and both up and downward kicks.
With all due respect the two kick drill part of the video is a mess: the side view actually shows the Biondi drill not the drill that's described . The video jumps and removes critical connections... sometimes the description is not the drill that is shown. ( Honestly,). ..in the smoothed out 1-2-3-4-,"bring your hands back and kick"- she isn't actually doing that- she's doing a Biondi, same for the last aerial view its kick every time she pulls not kick when she is bringing the hands back to the start.. which is the drill that is described in Cokie Lepinski's article of US masters this month, we see her kicking only on the pull, not on the hands coming back to the start- ( we do see this in the beginning but then the video skips the critical finish, and we do see it in some of the middle on the aerial view, but not the end of the drill). Take a look, see if I am correct?? That is, he is conflating two drills. First the oral instructions describe the Biondi drill ( " sneak your hands back to the front of your body"). Then The aerial view does show the Cokie drill at first- kick arms pulling, kick arms coming back to being pressed against the rib cage at 90degree angle, kind of like a little Angel fish ( big body, little wings), but the view from the side only shows one kick on the pull not on the "sneakback" of the arms, so that's not the 1-2-3-4 described, its a Biondi Or Mary T Meagher or whatever you want to call it that he's describing..
She's only kicking on the pull not on the return of the hands to the front as in the Cokie Lepinski Drill, which is verbatim what Tony is describing on the "smoothed out version". She isn't doing what Tony is saying. She's only kicking on the pull, half the time that the drill requires.
@@benjaminteitelbaum1073That's wrong. Sure, she's executing ONE ""complete" dolphin kick (which is btw. why this is called "second kick drill"), but she does the downkick on the pull and the upkick when getting her hands back in front. So "Kick and Kick" is correct :D It was just meant differently from wht you had expected.
@@justitia5283 Ok,, but is Kick and Kick not two kicks? I guess I dont understand. It does seem to me that the "first " kick does happen when the arms are doing the underwater recovery. No? Please clarify. Thanks in advance. I mean is it a two kick drill or just a ONE ( your capitals appreciated by me) kick drill, on half of the stroke ( kind of like the Matt bind drill... )
@@justitia5283 Ok,, but is Kick and Kick not two kicks? I guess I dont understand. It does seem to me that the "first " kick does happen when the arms are doing the underwater recovery. No? Please clarify. Thanks in advance. I mean is it a two kick drill or just a ONE ( your capitals appreciated by me) kick drill, on half of the stroke ( kind of like the Matt Biond drill... )? PS I was signed in as my partner, oops.