This morning at swim practice, I was told two things that astounded me.

1) Butterfly is done with only one kick per stroke, not two (one large one and one small one) the way I have done for the past 12 years of my life (including many college swim meets where I could have apparently been disqualified).

2) I have the body of a breaststroker or backstroker, and should have been doing those, not butterfly or freestyle, for my whole career. Apparently the fact that I'm damn slow at breaststroke means nothing - I just haven't been training the right way.

Huh.

Posted by dahl at September 14, 2005 6:41 PM

Eh? I don't swim competitively, but I was also taught two kicks per stroke in butterfly (but that it was okay to get by with one until you got the knack of it).