#dolphin kick

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Playblast of the basic swimcycle, Some of the movements need to be softened and it is missing facial animation and adjustments with blendshapes. I have also just started blocking in the 3D scenes and adding cameras.

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Dolphin Kick - movie poster: https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/dolphin-kick/

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Roller Coaster Butterflying

When a swimmer is learning the Butterfly stroke, making a wave movement must be done. There is more than one reason for it. One reason is to powerfully kick in a waving or fanning motion and another is to have good hydrodynamics with the least resistance possible. If a swimmer doesn’t get it sometimes an unusual parallel or clear analogy helps. I’ve used roller coaster as a good parallel. The…

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When Dolphin kick isn't dolphin kick

Butterfly needs to have a dolphin action to swim it correctly.  The basis for the stroke is a correct dolphin action, NOT a dolphin kick.  An undulation starting from the upper part of the body is a natural body movement that I have often seen in children.  Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be taught in swimming lessons leaving most swimmers who are graduating from their lesson programme into a…

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Dolphin kicking

I haven't updated this in a while so hi again. At the pool today, i tried a dolphin kick for the 374728286th time. I finally finally did it. I was able to dolphin kick underwater halfway down the pool. Since i was swimming across lanes, during a public "free swim", that was about 7m. Holy shit!!! i was like no way, this has to be a fluke. so i went underwater again, tried it again, and did it AGAIN! NO WAY! 7m doesn't sound like a lot but it was the first time i felt propulsion!

I guess it finally clicked. My dolphin kick is pretty bad though but I think it'll get better from here.

I'm almost at 7 months.

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The First Olympic Champion in 100m Butterfly

Although the butterfly style was emerging from breaststroke since the 1930s, it was not officially recognised as a separate Olympic event until after 1952 Olympics in the 1956 games in Melbourne. When Shelley Mann of USA won the inaugural 100m butterfly (men swam the 200m butterfly) her path to victory was longer than most. Shelley, at the age of six, was a victim of one of the horrific…

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Some studies of underwater swimming. I used footage from YouTube as reference and Adobe Animate for animating. 

The upper image is based on a video breaking down an underwater dolphin kick.

For the study below I initially tried to show the technique done by freediving long distance champions but the result was too awkward. I kept the hand movement but modified the legs to a dolphin kick, so now the model is swimming something like a butterfly stroke.

For future use- the first movement test  is close in breaking down the swim cycle and is likely useful as reference. The second test helped me to understand the breast stroke, yet more mistakes have slipped in to this test cycle because I was using different references. 

Adobe Animate is pretty great for this phase of doing quick tests. I used both regular and primitive shapes at first and then converted all parts to primitive shapes as Animate likes to merge regular shapes really quickly - this can bring unwanted results but looks like a time save after getting used to.

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Frontcrawl ~Timing of Arms and Legs

To have a swimmer with slightly ‘off’ timing’ on their Frontcrawl is a common error.  I believe there are two main areas of concern when I look at a swimmers timing. Timing concerns; how the arms & legs work together  how the arms manipulate their position, which in turn moves your body through the water, known as the ‘pull’.   Both issues require the timing to be correct to have the most…

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