Butterfly Stroke Hand Rotation

Video Transcript

"In this section of the butterfly stroke, I'm going to be explaining step three. Step three is going to be with your hands. Right? You're going to have them like paddles. And when they come out of the water, you're going to make sure that they come straight out and you're going to rotate. Rotate your hands. Okay? So if you can envision that, you come out of the water, your hands are up. You're going to rotate them so the top of your hands are going to be facing in. And you're going to be coming in like that, close together. Okay? So, if you can picture that. So here I go, right? Imagine me, I'm in the water. And here comes my hands out of the water. They came all the way back, and then I'm going to rotate them so, you see how the top of the hands are facing towards you. And then they'll come in together, like this. Shoulders will be in together, as well. So the biggest thing there is going to be your hands. You've always got to make sure that they're like a paddle, no matter what. You never want to break them open, and your arms, you don't ever want to have them really bent or anything like that. It's pretty much almost like a straight, fluid movement. Now this is a continuation of step three. Your hands, you don't want open hands. You just want them closed. Top of the hands facing each other, and then pulling like an S. So, just like that."