How To Swim Butterfly Stroke

The best swimming tips to make basic butterfly technique easy.

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



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.
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. The timing and coordination of butterfly 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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