Can someone explain to me the differences in the Kicking Rhythms? I feel that my kick is not consistent and is really holding me back. I feel like w the pull buoy I can swim all day but once I add in the kick I tire a lot quicker. Maybe this is common for everyone.
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Greg and Jan
As far as the limb length/stroke rate goes, kicking too.....nothing is cast in stone. You just have to experiment and see what works best for you. I simply found that a tiny six beat flutter gave me better rhythm than a 2 beat. Couple that with the fact that in order to sync catch/pull with each kick on a 2 beat I experienced pauses/gaps. Well, 6 beat won. I'm a huge advocate of not having pauses and gaps in the stroke or too much catch up is a another way to put it. All this gets really koRnfeWsing b/c it's all connected.
Let me sum up my conversion and I will leave it be. I used to have tons of catch up in my stroke with little or no kick so each cycle was akin to accelerate.....decelerate....accelerate.....decelerate. That is a very exhausting and inefficient way to swim. For decades I was stuck in a speed rut where I couldn't get any faster and this was the reason. So, in order to make sure I was applying at least some propulsion almost all the time I filled in those gaps with a 6 beat kick and taking some of the catch up out of my stroke. If you want to watch a guy who perhaps does this as well as anyone I have ever seen watch this clip. Guy is an Aussie Olympian and if you play/pause his stroke you can nary find a moment he isn't propelling himself. Zero gaps. Jan no books, but hopefully seeing this guy in action will show you what I'm trying to articulate. He certainly has some front quadrant characteristics, but it's not a stroke saddled with decelerating/accelerating. Watch the entire vid and you can see how his 6 beat is present throughout, every angle it's clear. Hope this helps, sorry for the tangents, but it's all interconnected and you can't talk about one and not the other!
www.youtube.com/watch
Greg and Jan
As far as the limb length/stroke rate goes, kicking too.....nothing is cast in stone. You just have to experiment and see what works best for you. I simply found that a tiny six beat flutter gave me better rhythm than a 2 beat. Couple that with the fact that in order to sync catch/pull with each kick on a 2 beat I experienced pauses/gaps. Well, 6 beat won. I'm a huge advocate of not having pauses and gaps in the stroke or too much catch up is a another way to put it. All this gets really koRnfeWsing b/c it's all connected.
Let me sum up my conversion and I will leave it be. I used to have tons of catch up in my stroke with little or no kick so each cycle was akin to accelerate.....decelerate....accelerate.....decelerate. That is a very exhausting and inefficient way to swim. For decades I was stuck in a speed rut where I couldn't get any faster and this was the reason. So, in order to make sure I was applying at least some propulsion almost all the time I filled in those gaps with a 6 beat kick and taking some of the catch up out of my stroke. If you want to watch a guy who perhaps does this as well as anyone I have ever seen watch this clip. Guy is an Aussie Olympian and if you play/pause his stroke you can nary find a moment he isn't propelling himself. Zero gaps. Jan no books, but hopefully seeing this guy in action will show you what I'm trying to articulate. He certainly has some front quadrant characteristics, but it's not a stroke saddled with decelerating/accelerating. Watch the entire vid and you can see how his 6 beat is present throughout, every angle it's clear. Hope this helps, sorry for the tangents, but it's all interconnected and you can't talk about one and not the other!
www.youtube.com/watch
