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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Originally posted by Bob McAdams
It certainly is! A majority of the respondents so far (31 to be exact) have indicated that kickboards "are a useful training tool", yet I've counted only 2 who were able to state any reason why they think this.
Actually the poll is set up in a way that you can say that the numbers of people thinking that a kickboard is a useful tool and those thinking the opposite are almost even since poll answers 1,2 and 4 obviously do not mean that a kickboard is a useful tool(evil/useless/chance to talk), making the number of people thinking that 30 against 31 thinking the opposite.
Originally posted by Bob McAdams
It certainly is! A majority of the respondents so far (31 to be exact) have indicated that kickboards "are a useful training tool", yet I've counted only 2 who were able to state any reason why they think this.
Actually the poll is set up in a way that you can say that the numbers of people thinking that a kickboard is a useful tool and those thinking the opposite are almost even since poll answers 1,2 and 4 obviously do not mean that a kickboard is a useful tool(evil/useless/chance to talk), making the number of people thinking that 30 against 31 thinking the opposite.
