You can mix it up -- you can also breathe on the 'stroke' side or away.

g

i do it with my arms on the side. not dangling.

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I find keeping it in front helps me 'balance' in the water more... especially single arm fly.

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1 arm fly?? How do you generate enough power to rise up and clear your recovery arm above the water?

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What if the Hokey Pokey is what it is all about?

I agree that keeping the arm out front helps with “balance”. Also, I find with the dead arm out front it helps reinforce “front loading” my stroke.

FLy is about the kick, not the arms. Your kick should propel the arms out of the water a fair ways. Fly kick should start almost at the chest and flow from there, no bent knees (when teaching little kids I used to tell them to pretend they are a tree in the wind).

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"which is like watching one of your buddies announce that he's quitting booze and cigarettes, switching to a Vegan diet and training for triathalons ... but he's going to keep snorting heroin." Bill Simmons, ESPN

You've never done one arm fly? It's really not that bad. Keep your left arm streamlined in front of you, do the stroke with the right arm. Breathe every stroke - tilt your head to the right instead of breathing forward.

It really requires some good hip action to get your body to move in that sexy wave style :)

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Is that David Hasselhoff? ;-)

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I was taught to cross my arm across my chest with my hand on the opposite shoulder. Seems to help with balance and concentrating on the pull with the other arm.

Try it (and all the other suggestions) and see if it works for you.

Damn, I've GOT to learn how to dolphin kick (see my earlier thread on my inability to get it!).

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ROFLMFAO!!! oh man. god im whiping the tears at the funnyness of that.

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