Butterfly Technique Archive

Butterfly Drill: One-Armed Fly, The RIGHT Way

Posted on July 10, 2010 | 3 Comments
One of the most popular butterfly drills, where I come from, is the one-armed butterfly. This drill comes in a few different forms: Right arm down, left arm back. 3-3-3 drill, where a swimmer takes three strokes with his right arm, three with his left...
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Drilling – Scull vs. Paddle

Posted on May 19, 2010 | 3 Comments
Through one of our drill posts about the importance of sculling, we have driven a little bit of controversy regarding the proper way to teach a high catch. The lingering theory behind sculling is that it creates a delayed catch and therefore is not promoting...
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The Ben and Jerry’s of Swimming: Sculling

Posted on May 4, 2010 | 2 Comments
By popular request from a gathering of the local swim coaches, we will be taking a look at the wide world of sculling in this post. Like Ben and Jerry’s which has a plethora of ice cream flavors, swimming has almost an infinite way to...
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My Golden Method for Teaching Butterfly

Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
Over the past few months, I’ve been working on developing a methodology for teaching strokes, because when I first started teaching, especially butterfly and breaststroke, I didn’t have a clue where to start. Sure, I could swim all of the strokes very well, and could...
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Technique vs. Finishing The Set

Posted on January 20, 2010 | 5 Comments
In one of the forums that I regularly visit today there was a great question posed by one of the active members: Should I just finish the set or should I try to push my technique Before I get into my coaching banter, I have...
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Butterfly Drill: Fish Flop

Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
Fly Drill: Fish Flop Explanation: Dive off the block with or without fins (I will typically do this with fins) and as soon as the swimmer hits the water they must go on to their side and sprint fly kick underwater for the length. When they reach the end they will go easy fly with perfect technique for the length.
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