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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I think this poll is turning out to be pretty interesting. I wish I had put more 'pro' choices to see a better granularity of where the "pro kickboard" people are lining up in terms of how they use it.
But, as the originator of this thread and lifetime skeptic of most any use of the kickboard: I'm beginning to feel more and more like I could swim with rocks in my hands and call them useful training tools if I wanted to. ;)
I think this poll is turning out to be pretty interesting. I wish I had put more 'pro' choices to see a better granularity of where the "pro kickboard" people are lining up in terms of how they use it.
But, as the originator of this thread and lifetime skeptic of most any use of the kickboard: I'm beginning to feel more and more like I could swim with rocks in my hands and call them useful training tools if I wanted to. ;)
