🏊🌊 Learning to breathe to both sides is one thing, but being able to maintain a straight body line while breathing every stroke is quite hard. Try it out.

🏊🌊 Don't feel like you have to swim full butterfly all the time. Shorten the distance and do one arm swimming with proper body/arms/legs coordination. This is much better for you than swimming full butterfly.

🏊🌊 Watch your shadow on the bottom of the pool when you swim and look for deviations from a straight line (it will keep your eyes on the bottom and help you see the issues). Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com

🏊🌊 Swim a longer distance like 300-500 and in the middle of each lap do a 360 degree flip in a nice tucked ball and continue swimming. Make it very smooth, engaging your body, so you do not need to use your arms to continue swimming.

🏊🌊 Keep the back of the head at the surface (if that is tough, you can move your head up and down to help with the wave, but eventually you want to get it stationary and only use the sternum).

🏊🌊 Next time you are in the pool, lay on your stomach, arms at your side, face into the water and only move your chest up and down and try to create a wave. Don't forcefully kick with your legs, let them follow in the wave.

🏊🌊 Can't grasp the butterfly motion? The undulation movement comes out of your sternum and the rest of the body just follows.

🏊🌊 Recognizing that something is off in your stroke or the ability to change your stroke is all part of swimming education and will make you a better swimmer in the long run. Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog

🏊🌊 Change up your freestyle stroke a for a bit and if you swim with high elbows try straight arm swimming and if you swim with straight arms, try high elbow recovery.

🏊🌊 Try breathing to side like in freestyle instead of forward during the one arm swimming :). Find more swim advice at https://www.360swim.com/blog

🏊🌊 Don't try to struggle with full stroke butterfly. You will get more out of swimming one arm butterfly drills. So, don't feel like you are cheating or being lazy. One arm butterfly will allow you to focus on technique for longer period.

🏊🌊 Doing a 2 beat kick is not easy to master, so why not start from vertical position. Float vertically in the water with your head out, arms at your side and kick with one foot to rotate your body the other direction.