How To Swim Butterfly - Easy Butterfly

Easy Butterfly is the last drill in the learn how to swim butterfly drill progression. The drill is relatively easy: you take a few butterfly strokes at the start of the length, then switch to another stroke. This ensures that you avoid struggle and only do the butterfly stroke with good form.

Swimming Drill Video

Here's a video that demonstrates the drill:

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How to do the drill

  • Push off the wall in a prone streamlined position and take a butterfly stroke.
  • Switch to a less exhausting swimming stroke, for example the freestyle stroke, and finish the length.
  • Do this for a few lengths.
  • Pause.
  • Start again and add a second butterfly stroke at the start of the length and do this for a few lengths.
  • And so on...

Some tips

  • Only add as few butterfly strokes at the start of the pool length as you can do them without struggle.
  • In the beginning, don't breathe when taking the butterfly strokes. Subsequently, add breathing every other stroke.
  • When you switch to the other stroke, swim as relaxed as possible to recover.

Transition To Swimming Butterfly

This was the last swimming drill to learn the butterfly stroke. What you should do next is to start to swim whole lengths of the stroke.

At first attempt to only do one length, then pause or switch to another stroke to recover. Then gradually increase the number of lengths you do at once. When you become tired during a length, simply switch to another stroke, as done in this drill.

Butterfly Swimming Video

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Conclusion

Congratulations! You've now learned the most difficult swim stroke, the one few people can swim at all, so you can enjoy the moment and be proud of yourself!

To improve your butterfly, it pays off to rehearse the drills in the sequence you just completed regularly. And after this, how about learning or improving the other swimming strokes?

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