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).
I did, in fact have to think about my kick rhythm and rebuild it. So some of us did have to do what you are talking about.
I'll also kindly disagree with the idea that the 6 beat kick can't be coordinated with the arm pull. If it wasn't coordinated with the arm pull then we would call it the "random beat kick depending on how tired you are". However I do agee with the fact that it is not time yet to worry about the rhythm your legs make with your arms. Much more important to work on arm timing and getting a horizontal body position in the water.
Last, in the interest of full disclosure, Emmett wrote a series of articles on this very thing over on his website. You'll find the first part of the series (bottom up swimming) here (www.h2oustonswims.org/.../bottom_up_swimming_revised.html)
I did, in fact have to think about my kick rhythm and rebuild it. So some of us did have to do what you are talking about.
I'll also kindly disagree with the idea that the 6 beat kick can't be coordinated with the arm pull. If it wasn't coordinated with the arm pull then we would call it the "random beat kick depending on how tired you are". However I do agee with the fact that it is not time yet to worry about the rhythm your legs make with your arms. Much more important to work on arm timing and getting a horizontal body position in the water.
Last, in the interest of full disclosure, Emmett wrote a series of articles on this very thing over on his website. You'll find the first part of the series (bottom up swimming) here (www.h2oustonswims.org/.../bottom_up_swimming_revised.html)
