[Butterfly Stroke Basics] Don't raise your head when doing the butterfly wave! 🥺

Hello, this is The Point of Swimming, The Force. Today, I'm going to tell you about the timing of lifting your head up when you're butterfly. First, the butterfly raises the hips with the power of the kick, and with the hips raised like this, it passes the center of gravity to the upper body and moves forward. After the center of gravity has passed to the upper body, it must continue to rise with the vertical force generated by the kick. If you lift your head up in the process of rising, your back and back will sink and interfere with the order. When I teach butterfly, a lot of people lift their heads up in the rise of waves, not breathing, so I made a video like this. Then, when should you lift your head up when you butterfly? It's when you breathe. In other words, when I'm doing a wave, I shouldn't lift my head up, and when I'm breathing, I should lift my head up and breathe. Why shouldn't I lift my head up? Because as I said before, it makes your back and back sink. And athletes don't lift their heads up when they wave. You can find this out by looking at the athlete's video. Before I explain this in more detail, there's something you need to know. I uploaded a video saying that butterfly learning is level 4. If you haven't seen it yet, please watch it. It's decided whether to press your chest or not in this order, and it may feel a little different to lift your head up depending on whether you can press your chest. Let me explain again. In the first step of butterfly learning, you have to do a deep wave, and in the second step, you have to practice a thinner wave. At this time, you don't press your chest because you don't push your hand to the side. Because you pull your hand right after the wave, you can lift your head up and breathe at the moment you pull your hand. In other words, you shouldn't lift your head until you pull your hand. Most athletes stay in these first and second steps, so please refer to this part a lot. If you're at the master's level, I think it would be good to refer to the following. It's step 3 and step 4. In this case, you have to open your head to press your chest better because you have to press your chest when you butterfly. In fact, this is close to lifting naturally by pressing the curved back instead of just bending your head. It's very difficult to press your chest when you're pulling your head, so you naturally open your head like this and press your chest. But in the case of athletes who press their chest harder in the 4-step butterfly, there are athletes who open their chest to the point where their eyes look forward. If you have crazy thoracic mobility and shoulder flexibility, you can try this style. But at the general level of sports, there are a lot of people who don't have a range of motion, so I think it would be good to refer to it. And to explain a little more in detail, people with good thoracic mobility or shoulder mobility like Lee Po-soo press their chest while fixing their heads, and there are people who pull their heads like me, roll their backs, and open their heads to press their chests. For example, just by looking at this Olympic butterfly, you can see that the style of the athletes is a little different like the two of us. The style is different, but it's about opening your head to press your curved back. You can think of it as breathing when you lift your chin and put your head back. You all know that when you breathe, you only look up to the point where your eyes look forward, right? Then why do we lift our heads like this? It's because you're trying to control the rise in the wave with your head. When you do butterfly, you have to practice the wave movement so that the whole body moves, but this doesn't work well. That's why you're trying to lift your head up. What happens when you lift your head? Your back sinks. Then the second kick, the exit kick, has to come down, but if your back is sinking, it's hard to kick the exit kick properly, so the exit kick doesn't work well. To sum up, in the 1st and 2nd steps of the butterfly, don't lift your head when you wave, practice rising with your arms next to your ears, breathe at the same time as the exit kick, and lift your head up. When you do butterfly in the 3rd and 4th steps, it feels like you're pressing your chest and your head is open, but it doesn't feel like you're lowering your head. I uploaded a video of the practice of waving without lifting your head last time, and I'll put a link, so please watch and practice. It's very difficult for you to butterfly, right? It's true that butterflying is difficult. I hope this video was helpful. This was THE FORCE. Bye.