How to Swim Competitive Butterfly Stroke : Butterfly Stroke Sprinting Tips

When sprinting in a competitive butterfly stroke swimming race, hold your breath and go as fast as possible. Get tips on doing butterfly sprints in this free swimming video lesson.

Expert: Phillip Toriello
Contact: www.PhillTheFlyingFish.com
Bio: Phillip Toriello has been a competitive swimmer, a surfer, a lifeguard, a swim instructor and a junior lifeguard instructor.
Filmmaker: Patrick Eaves

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[swimmerforever2008]

This guy is gay! He doesn't know butterfly.. Why is he wearing a friggin' swim cap if he's bald !?

[KillaRocks702]

kool video

[RacinePranks]

in one of my first butterfly splits in a relay i swam a 29.5 with about 2 breaths going down and maybe 3 coming back. so i figured in my next one i wouldent take any going down and just breathe off the turn to maximize my momentum, but i feel it backfired without that extra bit of oxygen as i added about a second time :\

[MrSwimmingmango]

@yoyamidoingthis yeah i do. cool i just thought you were being snotty at first, no offence

[yoyamidoingthis]

@MrSwimmingmango So are you in a swim league then? respect very nice. Yeah i know 100s are sprinting events. i personally swam 100 breaststroke and 100 back, i was just asking if you were on a high school swim team because, at least for the high schools ive seen, they dont train for any thing over a 50 as a sprint.

[MrSwimmingmango]

@yoyamidoingthis the 100 fly is a sprint. I swim below high school. 100 yards is a sprint i get what your saying though

[ankhaton]

@yoyamidoingthis - yes it was amazing If Atie Voorbij is still alive , she can testimony and perhaps she has a film She was a kind of world champion with it. And of course : Mr Tumpek himself Or the Hungerian swimming national club Or next summer I'll do 3 or 5 strokes myself ! -=- It's not very important you believe or not But some national equipe trying this will collect a lot of Gold

[yoyamidoingthis]

@MrSwimmingmango do you swim in college? because theyre probably talking about high school. i remember swimming the 100 fly in hs was much different than swimming it in college.

[yoyamidoingthis]

@ankhaton For some reason i dont believe you swam a 50 fly in 26 secs in 1956.

And breathing every two strokes is something youre taught on most swim teams. I seriously doubt you're the only one in the whole world who knows how to do it.

[ankhaton]

I'm dutch and I did 50 meters Butterfly in 1956 in 26 seconds -

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I was 20 % faster than other guys with TUMPEK invented by an hongarian swimmer, copied by Atie Voorbij who I saw doing it, and then next day I did it just like that - It's inhaling one time per two strokes and you swimm much more under water like a dolphin - it's beautiful - I wonder if I'm the only now in the world knowing how to do it. - I'm 74 but still able to demonstrate TUMPEK - IT'S HEAVY but fast and very gracious -

[kdawggocon]

Guys if you wanna know how to be good then check out Michael phelps. You need a lot of power and upper body strength, and to get alot of it,when u take a breath throw your head and shoulders in the water. Makes u alot faster.

[MrSwimmingmango]

@metallilover83 yes i swim competivley and the 100 is a sprint