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?
Is there anything that I can think about to help with the rhythm of pull to kick, with that undulation thrown in? I need to work more on the feet to fanny bit, and it seems like a whisper of a dolphin kick in there are the feet return to streamline. Is that right?
Also,
This weekend I was at Eric Shanteau’s Swim4OurLives and listened in on the breaststroke clinic led by Rebecca Soni and Mark Gangloff. Soni had her group doing a variation of the 2 kick 1 pull drill, which makes a lot more sense to me than just kick-kick-pull. She had the group do it as kick-pull-kick-glide, with the focus on the timing of the kick in the pull-kick-glide section. Soni and Gangloff made it look so easy, but the rest of the group seemed to be getting the hang of it as well.
To add to Allen’s suggestion, another drill is to start off BR with dolphin kick (this time no fins) and once you get into your timing after 3-5 strokes, then switch to BR kick for the rest of the length while keeping the hips up, lunge and timing.
Is there anything that I can think about to help with the rhythm of pull to kick, with that undulation thrown in? I need to work more on the feet to fanny bit, and it seems like a whisper of a dolphin kick in there are the feet return to streamline. Is that right?
Also,
This weekend I was at Eric Shanteau’s Swim4OurLives and listened in on the breaststroke clinic led by Rebecca Soni and Mark Gangloff. Soni had her group doing a variation of the 2 kick 1 pull drill, which makes a lot more sense to me than just kick-kick-pull. She had the group do it as kick-pull-kick-glide, with the focus on the timing of the kick in the pull-kick-glide section. Soni and Gangloff made it look so easy, but the rest of the group seemed to be getting the hang of it as well.
To add to Allen’s suggestion, another drill is to start off BR with dolphin kick (this time no fins) and once you get into your timing after 3-5 strokes, then switch to BR kick for the rest of the length while keeping the hips up, lunge and timing.
