Please help I'm teaching a few people to swim and there seems to be a problem with their breastroke kick. This is my main stroke and I don't seem able to give it over to them. They manage a push off, glide, hands, but their legs seem to lack power. Any tips? Any videos any1 can recommend?
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Maybe you can get them to hold on to the gutter or the ladder with their hands, and you can hold and guide their feet, so that they learn what the outward turning of the feet feels like.
Breaststroke used to be the first stroke you learned in Norway. Nowadays they teach pushoffs, streamline, floating and crawl, but in the seventies only the kids on swimming teams ever learned anything besides ***. My classmates looked at me in confusion and envy when I'd swim freestyle.
My parents' generation tells stories of learning to swim lying on their stomachs on a kitchen stool, practicing breaststroke for considerable time before they were allowed near water. It may be worth a try, if only for the entertainment. The problem is that they won't get to feel the push when they do it right.
Maybe you can get them to hold on to the gutter or the ladder with their hands, and you can hold and guide their feet, so that they learn what the outward turning of the feet feels like.
Breaststroke used to be the first stroke you learned in Norway. Nowadays they teach pushoffs, streamline, floating and crawl, but in the seventies only the kids on swimming teams ever learned anything besides ***. My classmates looked at me in confusion and envy when I'd swim freestyle.
My parents' generation tells stories of learning to swim lying on their stomachs on a kitchen stool, practicing breaststroke for considerable time before they were allowed near water. It may be worth a try, if only for the entertainment. The problem is that they won't get to feel the push when they do it right.
