How to Swim Competitive Butterfly Stroke - Butterfly stroke distance race tips
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PHILLIP TORIELLO: Hello and welcome to Expert Village. I'm Phillip Toriello from the Avila
Bay Athletic Club. Butterfly distance, the bone-crusher of all events: Personally, I'd
rather swim a 1600 and 50-yard race, freestyle, than I would 8 lengths of butterfly. It takes
an incredible amount of endurance and it takes a threshold that most people have to work
a good period of time to gain. During this race, it is really important, especially if
it's your first time, to pace yourself. Really work on that pull, breathe, kick, pull, breathe,
kick, pull, breathe, kick. Timing is absolutely everything during the distance butterfly races.
During the butterfly distance race, in order to preserve your energy and to finish a race
strong, utilize your turns. Utilize your off the walls while at the same time remembering
that if you break the 15-meter mark underwater that you will be disqualified.
