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What is most important about butterfly?

Butterfly

Remember the following short key phrases when doing swimming strokes and you won't go wrong doing the butterfly stroke:

• Hands make an S-shape under the water
• Push past your hips
• Arms almost straight out of the water
• Breathe every stroke
• Hands enter at full arm extension in front of the body
• Kick from the hips, not the knees
• Relax your feet

Comments

3/17/2007 12:01:07 AM
qerty said:

you should try to breathe teh least possible

4/30/2007 2:19:47 AM
Kara said:

also the a Key shape can also be used under the water and this will give you more power for your arms

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