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?
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.
:applaud: Perfect! I wish I had learned this way. The only instruction I received in breaststroke prior to joining the high school swim team was back when I was a young kid in an American Red Cross swim class. We were told, "Up, out, together" and learned a wide frog kick.
When I joined the high school swim team (my first time competitng experience), I learned breaststroke kick by swimming behind the only other breaststroker on the team. I would watch her and copy what she did, because our "coach" didn't know how to swim; she was a P.E. teacher stuck with the swim team. :afraid:(Of course, we didn't realize she didn't know how to swim until we threw her in the pool after beating our rival, my senior year. :eek: )
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.
:applaud: Perfect! I wish I had learned this way. The only instruction I received in breaststroke prior to joining the high school swim team was back when I was a young kid in an American Red Cross swim class. We were told, "Up, out, together" and learned a wide frog kick.
When I joined the high school swim team (my first time competitng experience), I learned breaststroke kick by swimming behind the only other breaststroker on the team. I would watch her and copy what she did, because our "coach" didn't know how to swim; she was a P.E. teacher stuck with the swim team. :afraid:(Of course, we didn't realize she didn't know how to swim until we threw her in the pool after beating our rival, my senior year. :eek: )
