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Posted Jan 10, 2008 07:24PM

I promised my swimmers that I would find some new fun butterfly drills before the new summer season starts again. If anyone can help I would love it! So far we do the 3-3-3 drill, one arm, and underwaters... and all of my swimmers are between the ages of 7-12... Please help!
Posted Jan 11, 2008 06:05AM

Surfing: The swimmer is laying on a board. It helps to keep the swimmer steady above water, so the focus can be on the stroke. Unfortunately this drill hinder the dolphin-movement of the body. But still I would say it is a good drill for younger swimmers to improve the stroke.

Freestyle-stroke: Swim freestyle-armstroke and butterfly-legkick. This drill should improve the continuity and rhythm of the kick.
Posted Jan 11, 2008 04:38PM

Thanks! I hadn't thought of those.

Posted Jan 11, 2008 05:11PM

STENDYS (or anyone else who knows)-My coach was talking about a butterfly drill where you were laying on a board but couldn't remember all the details and didn't want us to do it wrong. Can you explain the Surfing drill in a little more detail so I can email it to her?
Posted Jan 11, 2008 07:19PM

The swimmer is laying with a board under the stomach. The benifit of this is that the swimmer do not need to do any work to keep floating.
Unfortunately is also hinder the dolphin-movement of the body but in this drill we are focusing on the stroke.
The swimmer uses both arm and legs but keep all focus on the stroke. The stroke rate should be kept low, so the swimmer has enough energy to follow the storke and hopefully improve it.
Pretty much the basics of the drill.
Posted Jan 23, 2008 09:11PM

Some of our favorite drils include one we call otter hop or otter skip. Swimmers kick on surface w/fins face down and arms at side breathing every 4 kicks to the front trying to maintain rhythm while kicking. Helps them develop stoke flow by pressing the chest and letting the body flow in a smooth rhythm. Other drills include Double Underwater Recovery drill, 2RA-2Full Strokes-2LA-2Full Stroke, 4Full Strokes w/out a breath then 3R-3L. Hope they help!
Posted Jan 24, 2008 12:26AM

Could you explain Double Underwater Recovery drill, 2RA-2Full Strokes-2LA-2Full Stroke, 4Full Strokes w/out a breath then 3R-3L these a bit more please.
Posted Jan 24, 2008 02:38PM

Ok I Understand 2RA-2Full Strokes-2LA-2Full Stroke, 4Full Strokes w/out a breath then 3R-3L but I would apperciate an explantion for Double Underwater Recovery drill.

Posted Jan 24, 2008 02:38PM

Double under water recovery drill.

Can be done with or without fins.

Swimmers start with hands out front in proper catch position for fly with their face down. They kick 3 times increasing the power in the kick on each one. After the third kick they pull through with a fly stroke concentrating on the proper follow thorugh of the hands underthe body and excute a breath as the hands pass under the head . The hands finish at the tail end of the stroke pressing out of the water. The hands then slide back under the water the water and the recovery is done underwater. There is a good example of a similiar drill that the TEXAS A&M program is doing on the floswimmer.com website.

The next is two-right-2Double-2Left-2double. Swimmers does drill taking two single arm stroke with the right arm(Can either breath to front or to side) then follwoed by 2full stokes fly(Breathe front), then 2left arm strokes(Breathe to front or side.) then 2 full strokes.

The 4 Full strokes is an old Richard Quick drill I picked up back in the 90's wher the focus is on swimming 4 perfect strokes without a breath maintaining perfect form and rhythm. The 3RA-3LA part is design to finish the length maintaining the proper rhythm and kick.
Hope this helps.

Posted Mar 14, 2008 06:55PM

I use this drill for 5-10 yr olds and sometimes with my 11-12. It's called "Dolphin Jumps" and it is not a drill I do every time we are working on fly. You need a shallow end and the whole point of the drill is to act like a dolphin by jumping off the bottom of the pool and trying to clear their bodies out of the water much like dolphins would. I like to think that the kids are feeling their own bodies undulate like a dolphin but I am realistic in also knowing that the kids like it because it breaks the monotony of standard fly drills and doesn't feel like a drill to them....


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