Kicking is essential to swimming.
If you want to swim fast, you need to kick fast.
With a board, without a board,
With fins, without fins.
While swimming or just kicking.
Consider improving your kick.
We need speed.
What did you do in practice today?
the breastroke lane
The Middle Distance Lane
The Backstroke Lane
The Butterfly Lane
The SDK Lane
The Taper Lane
The Distance Lane
The IM Lane
The Sprint Free Lane
The Pool Deck
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My natural kick is a two-beat crossover kick. When I try to increase my kick while swimming freestyle, it feels very unnatural but I know that a stronger kick would serve me well on shorter events. I trudge through kick sets but I don't feel like it translates to my swimming except in backstroke. How might I get used to kicking more while swimming? Would wearing short fins help?
To execute a strong 6-beat kick, I have to allow my kick to determine my stroke cadence. I think that might be what you mean by 'unnatural.' It feels strange to be kick-driven, but the clock does not lie.
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My natural kick is a two-beat crossover kick. When I try to increase my kick while swimming freestyle, it feels very unnatural but I know that a stronger kick would serve me well on shorter events. I trudge through kick sets but I don't feel like it translates to my swimming except in backstroke. How might I get used to kicking more while swimming? Would wearing short fins help?
To execute a strong 6-beat kick, I have to allow my kick to determine my stroke cadence. I think that might be what you mean by 'unnatural.' It feels strange to be kick-driven, but the clock does not lie.
