Butterfly Stroke Body Movement

Video Transcript

"In this section of the butterfly stroke, I'm going to show you how to move the body. So your body is going to be like I said. Your feet are going to be kind of like a mermaid. And you're basically going to be like a snake. Okay? Just imagine like a snake, your body is going to form an S. You're very wavy, very flexible, when you do the dolphin kick. That's why I said everyone can do it, but as far as ability-wise, it's just going to depend on your body. So what you'll want to learn to do is, when you do the dolphin kick, it's really just going to be like a nice little wave, S-shape. So if you can see, pretty much you'll start from the bottom going up, and you'll kind of just form like an S. So if you can look, my body is not completely going back-and-forth, actually. It's just kind of like the legs will move in, this part will kind of be bending back. And then as I'm going in, then the rest of my body is kind of like forming an S. So basically like an S form. And you'll see that in the water, as well. But I just wanted to explain. The legs are together. Your body is very wavy, very flexible, forming an S-shape for the dolphin, the full entire butterfly kick. All right. This is a continuation of step two. As you saw, I just did step one. And basically, it's just like an S-shape, like I had explained. So your body moves like that. And if you notice, in the water, which we'll do a recap here in a bit, there was a big splash and then there was a little splash. So you have your really big kick, and then you follow it up with a little kick. And that's the S-shape."