Breathing In While [butterfly stroke](swimming butterfly), breathing is initiated by kicking a little bit harder during the second dolphin kick. This makes your upper body rise a little bit higher above the water surface during the body undulation. Inhaling occurs as soon as the mouth clears the water and the arms start their recovery forward. …
Head-Lead Body Dolphin is a fundamental drill to learn the butterfly stroke. It lets you practice the body undulation and dolphin kick. The video below shows this swimming drill: Because you don’t use your arms, you have to use body undulation and dolphin kicks to move forward. Once you have mastered this technique, learning the …
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Easy Butterfly is the final swimming drill in our series to learn to the butterfly stroke. The video below shows this drill: As you can see above, the Easy Butterfly drill is uncomplicated: you do a few butterfly stroke cycles at the beginning of a length, then switch to another swim stroke to avoid fatigue. …
Body-Dolphin Butterfly is the next one of our series of drills to learn the butterfly stroke. It allows you to prevent fatigue and focus on technique. Watch the following video of Body-Dolphin Butterfly: In the previous drill, Hip-Delay Butterfly, you added a few body dolphins after both the underwater arm sweep and after the arm …
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Hip-Delay Butterfly is the next one of our drills to learn how to swim butterfly. The previous drill in this series was Stoneskipper. Hip-Delay Butterfly teaches you the movements and the timing of the butterfly arm recovery. Once you have mastered this drill, you’ll have practiced all the movements needed to swim butterfly. Watch the …
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