How do you do a butterfly stroke?

Answer 1

Step One

Click to enlargeHold your legs together and extend your arms above your head.

Step Two

Click to enlargeKick your legs up and down once in a whipping motion generating from the hips and bending at the knees, as if you were a dolphin.

Step Three

Click to enlargePull both of your arms simultaneously and symmetrically through the water beneath your body along with the big kick, helping to propel your body forward and out of the water.

Step Four

Click to enlargeLift your head up and breathe as you quickly pull both arms out of the water and swing them forward. Head and arms reenter the water together in a diving motion.

Step Five

Glide momentarily, performing a smaller follow-up kick.

Step Six

Execute another pull-through motion with your arms, with your legs performing a full kick to propel you up and out again.

Tips & Warnings

• The butterfly kick is actually two kicks. One kick is a big kick, with knees bending and kicking out while the body leaps and dives forward. Then, during the glide, the whole body whips the legs into a second, smaller kick.
• Done properly, the butterfly stroke is a smooth, gliding stroke, but you may find it very difficult and tiring when learning.
• Practice the kick without the stroke to get a feel for using your whole body. Extend your arms and undulate your body through the water.
• Try practicing the kick with fins on to get the feeling of a powerful and fluid kick.

Information received from http://www.ehow.com/how_5301_swim-butterfly-stroke.HTML

Answer 2

Do the dolphin kick with both legs together kicking up and down in full motion while bringing both of your arms around your head together continuously and striking past your waist. To breath you pull your hands through the top of the water while lifting your head up...

Hint: When breathing, look at the bottom of the pool or body of water... (Keep your head down!) I'm a ZONE butterfly swimmer.... Good luck!

_PolohGirl

Answer 3

Your question is a little confusing, but yes, there is a stroke called butterfly. I am a competitive swimmer. Michael Phelps is the fastest butterflyer. Butterfly in a stroke in which you move your butt up and down for the kick. It is sort of like a dolphin's tail. For the stroke, you create a lightbulb underwater, and bring yourself out of the water. BE SURE NOT TO BRING YOUR WHOLE CHEST OUT OF THE WATER. For more info, go to www. goswim.com

Answer 4

Make sure your head is down and your legs are together. And keep it like that throughout the stroke because if you don't it wont be a good one.