I am having siginificant difficulty learning the modern breastroke kick. I am still trapped in the ways of my youth with the wide frog kick.
When I try the more closed kick I see used today, I end up floundering and looking quite odd. By the end of every lap, I have confused the kick so badly that it is quite possible I may be moving either sideways or backwards.
Does anyone have any suggestions for how I can learn the newer kick?
Thanks
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Breastroker has been so busy at work he isn't even going to nationals, and is really bummed. Thanks for the link to my web site, I do have articles that describe the new kick, and I have pics from a Marty Hull article on the new kick. I think it is important to say the new kick the feet are inside the knees, which reduces the strain on the ligaments.
If I can get a Special Olympian to kick breaststroke I could get you to do it right, but unless you are in Southern California it is hard to explain in words. I tell the swimmers,
Stand on the deck
Pull the feet back up directly behind the buttocks
Now just straighten the leg out to match the outher leg.
Now alternate the legs doing the same
Now try it in the water
Breaststroker
Breastroker has been so busy at work he isn't even going to nationals, and is really bummed. Thanks for the link to my web site, I do have articles that describe the new kick, and I have pics from a Marty Hull article on the new kick. I think it is important to say the new kick the feet are inside the knees, which reduces the strain on the ligaments.
If I can get a Special Olympian to kick breaststroke I could get you to do it right, but unless you are in Southern California it is hard to explain in words. I tell the swimmers,
Stand on the deck
Pull the feet back up directly behind the buttocks
Now just straighten the leg out to match the outher leg.
Now alternate the legs doing the same
Now try it in the water
Breaststroker
