I have been trying to learn how to do a decent front crawl. With the help of many Forum users I have made some progress improving the arm pull, kick and breathing - as separate elements of the total motion. I am having trouble synchronizing the kicks with the pulls. Right now I think I am just kicking at a fast, steady rate (probably too fast), whatever the arms are doing. It doesn't feel natural. At what points in the arm pull do the kicks occur?
Thanks, as ever, for your help.
BTW, I looked into the class that they have at my facility, but everybody is waaay too advanced (they work on diving in and flip turns - ack! - I'd probably drown).
Maybe others will disagree, but I don't think you can synchronize a 6-beat kick with the arm stroke. ;) That kick is for sprinting, when you want to just let it all out. You might want to experiment with 2 and 4-beat kicks, those will require some synchronization. Even so, the kick is largely seperate from the pull.
Right now, I would worry less about the kick-vs-stoke, and more about synchronizing the body roll with the arm stroke. (This may not be you, but I have an image of a new swimmer, arms churning fast, furious splashing kick, but with the shoulders parallel to the surface, with no rotation around the long axis.)
Maybe others will disagree, but I don't think you can synchronize a 6-beat kick with the arm stroke. ;) That kick is for sprinting, when you want to just let it all out. You might want to experiment with 2 and 4-beat kicks, those will require some synchronization. Even so, the kick is largely seperate from the pull.
Right now, I would worry less about the kick-vs-stoke, and more about synchronizing the body roll with the arm stroke. (This may not be you, but I have an image of a new swimmer, arms churning fast, furious splashing kick, but with the shoulders parallel to the surface, with no rotation around the long axis.)
