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!
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Lindsay,
Just the opposite. Not using kick boards allows more drills to be done in the same time frame, and be done correctly.
Bob is correct, kick boards are evil. They are the reason so many people have problems with breaststroke.
Lindsay,
Just the opposite. Not using kick boards allows more drills to be done in the same time frame, and be done correctly.
Bob is correct, kick boards are evil. They are the reason so many people have problems with breaststroke.
