Do you do DPS drills?
We did some yesterday, and I was able to do 10 (25Y pool) - without kicking.
last time I really paid attention and counted in this kind of a drill was about 2-3 months ago, and the best I could do was 13 with a rare 12, and those were with kicking.
So, Improvement !!! Gotta love it.
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Originally posted by knelson
I don't think you're going to get all that long of streamline unless you kick, though! You'll just cork up to the surface at some point.
You'd be wrong, for me at least. I'm not much a kicker (too much distance training will do that to ya) and I've got good push offs from the walls without really kicking.
As for floating up to the surface, it's just a matter of knowing how far you can push off before you lose forward momentum. Then accomidate for that distance and angle your body to reach the surface before you lose forward momentum. Hope that made sense. But kicking off the wall is a good idea - I'm just lazy ;)
Originally posted by knelson
I don't think you're going to get all that long of streamline unless you kick, though! You'll just cork up to the surface at some point.
You'd be wrong, for me at least. I'm not much a kicker (too much distance training will do that to ya) and I've got good push offs from the walls without really kicking.
As for floating up to the surface, it's just a matter of knowing how far you can push off before you lose forward momentum. Then accomidate for that distance and angle your body to reach the surface before you lose forward momentum. Hope that made sense. But kicking off the wall is a good idea - I'm just lazy ;)
