How To Do A Dolphin Kick Video

The dolphin kick is used in the butterfly stroke. While challenging, the dolphin kick is useful to master. Get expert tips and advice in this swimming video.

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Put legs together to form tail
Work with hips
Let wave transfer to toes

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Phillip Toriello has 16 years of competitive swimming experience. 12 of those years he has been teaching and organizing swim events for swimmers of all levels and ages. He is has competed in all four strokes, and their corresponding events. Though his favorite race, is the individual medley. Phillip is the Aquatic Director at the high end Avila Bay Athletic Club.

PHILLIP TORIELLO: My name is Phillip Toriello, and this is how to breathe while swimming. Your breathing technique when you are in the water can make the difference between a comfortable swim and an awkward swim. Basically, with the four stokes, freestyle, backstroke, butterfly, and breaststroke, there is varying techniques and times during which you will take your breath. For example, with the breaststroke, you are going to be taking one stroke per breath, so each time your arms start that stroke, you are lifting your head up, and getting that breath. As you move in to the butterfly stroke, you are going to be taking your breath every two strokes or otherwise known as every-other-stroke. This helps by keeping your body hydrodynamic and moving in a wave like fashion through the water, but also, provides your body with just enough oxygen to sustain itself while you are doing that really intense stroke. The other stroke will be the freestyle stroke, during which we really try to teach individuals to breathe every three strokes, which is also known as bilateral breathing. What is this going to do for you is that it is going to help keep your body balanced physically, as you go through the water. If you tend to breath every two or every four strokes, or even one stroke, and just breathing to one side, you might have the potential of overdeveloping one side which can kind of lopside your stroke if you don't watch out. The next one, of course, is the backstroke. This is going to allow you to breathe as freely, and as often as you like, because of course, your head is out of the water the entire time, and you can do that, but it would be good to develop a rhythm as you start to enter the realm of competitive swimming, kind of develop a rhythm, get in tune with your feet, your arm motion, your shoulder rotation, and kind of control that breathing as you will. To learn more about breathing while swimming, visit your local swim instructor or swim coach.

How to Do a Dolphin Kick Video

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