Personally, I think kickboards are evil, evil, evil. When I was swimming 20 years ago in high school I didn't see the point, and now that I'm 38 I still don't see the point.
Happily though, I've read in several books and seen on a few video tapes that many coaches have come around to my line of thinking, "Kickboards put you in an unnatural heads-up position, emphasize the least effective part of the stroke (the kick), and keep you from rotating."
Since I see people swim with kickboards every day I know many people disagree with me. But, there's no way they're going to change my mind. Instead - let's vote!
I don't use a kick board or fins or pull buoy or paddles in training.
We don't get to use them in a meet.
I am a big believer in training to become very good at streamlined underwater dolphin kicking.
as far as other equipment:
I would love to use an electronic timing system and touch pad in training to get accurate splits and times for sprints and race simulation training.
Ande
I don't use a kick board or fins or pull buoy or paddles in training.
We don't get to use them in a meet.
I am a big believer in training to become very good at streamlined underwater dolphin kicking.
as far as other equipment:
I would love to use an electronic timing system and touch pad in training to get accurate splits and times for sprints and race simulation training.
Ande
