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?
my experience with breaststroke kick is that unfortunately a lot of people have trouble with it because their hips aren't flexible enough.
To turn your feet out requires hip flexibility. Most of us don't even realize that (I didn't either, until I had a bunch of those cases in a row).
They will automatically do a froggy kick in the water.
I have them learn how to kick on land in the prone position and sitting on a bench so they can actually see what they do.
Other than that, lots of fly kick (with or without fins) with breaststroke pull in the water so they learn how to use their hips.
Overall, teaching hip flexibility and body awareness, especially focusing on the hips (through drills and dryland exercises), have shown to be most beneficial for the people I taught "proper" breaststroke so far.
my experience with breaststroke kick is that unfortunately a lot of people have trouble with it because their hips aren't flexible enough.
To turn your feet out requires hip flexibility. Most of us don't even realize that (I didn't either, until I had a bunch of those cases in a row).
They will automatically do a froggy kick in the water.
I have them learn how to kick on land in the prone position and sitting on a bench so they can actually see what they do.
Other than that, lots of fly kick (with or without fins) with breaststroke pull in the water so they learn how to use their hips.
Overall, teaching hip flexibility and body awareness, especially focusing on the hips (through drills and dryland exercises), have shown to be most beneficial for the people I taught "proper" breaststroke so far.
