Butterfly Stroke

Swimming Technique

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Butterfly stroke is the most recent stroke, developed in the 1950's, and it is the second fastest stroke to Front Crawl.

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The stroke evolved from Breaststroke as it also contains a simultaneous leg action and simultaneous arm action. This stroke requires a great deal of upper body strength and can be very physically demanding; therefore it is a stroke that is swum competitively rather than recreationally.

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Buoyancy is very important because the arms are recovered over the water the head is raised to breathe, therefore good floaters will achieve this far easier than poor floaters.

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The timing and coordination of butterfly stroke is usually a two beat cycle of leg kicks to one arm cycle.

The undulating action of the body and the legs create great demands of the spine, therefore there are many alternative exercises and practices that can be used to make learning the stroke easier and less physical.

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Swimming exercises that isolate essential key areas of basic stroke technique and highlight your bad habits. Once you've worked though each element of the stroke and practiced the exercises a few times, you will slowly eliminate your bad habits. Each exercise is designed to be an easy fix for common errors in basic swimming techniques.

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