Breaststroke Kick drills

You actually enjoy the 200 ***? When I touched the wall at my last USA Swimming nationals in 1998 I swore to never swim it again. And I'm holding myself to that until my dying day. The aforementioned drills are very good, especially kicking on your back. What you're trying to do is not drop your knees when you bring your legs up at the start of the kick. A very easy way to do this is to drop your hips, which gives your legs room to lift up for the prep for the kick. How to work on this? Hold your arms in front of you while in a flat position. With a small scull, lift your head up to breathe. At this point, thrust your hips downward and a little forward, then bend at the knees and bring your ankles up to your butt. You might find that you get less power out of this kick, but you lose the resistance from dropping your knees. It balances out.

here's a few Breastroke Kick Drills and sets to do: I'm making up some of these names: Couch Kick drill kick on your back in sort of a sitting position which creates more resistance, you can watch what you do with your feet and legs, concentrate on pressing as much water as you can all the way through your kick RIDE THE GLIDE DRILL kick on your belly, arms extended out in front and concentrate on being in perfect streamline position before during and after each kick, glide as far as you can before you take your next kick, take as few kicks as you can to get across the pool Ride the Glide (with time) concentrate on perfect form and gliding but also get your times. and know where you tend to fall for 3 strokes, 4 strokes, 5 strokes, Egg beater vertical kicking though I'm not much of a fan, because you can't tell how fast you're going. It's easy to slack off. SLAM Drill on the slam drill you exaggerate power and speed in the last half to one third of your kick, you finish each kick by slamming your feet and legs together, be sure to warm up your groin. Even Splitting / negative splitting kick 50's, 100's, 150's or 200's where you even split or negative split, this get's you Pace Work Kicking 50's and 100's on a particular pace with not much rest try to hold 5 or 10 on the fastest interval you can, using easy speed and 10 seconds rest per 100 or 5 per 50 Speed work 12.5's, 25's, 50's, 75's and 100's for time on 12.5's and 25's do a few without taking a push off so you'll have to take more kicks Testing testing is where you kick a particular distance for time. 25, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 300, 400, 500 on the shorter races preferrably on a coaches go and a watch watch timing doesn't matter as much 150 and up Ande

jeff, when you're kicking or swimming breastroke how close should you bring your ankles to your butt? Ande Originally posted by Jeff Commings You actually enjoy the 200 ***? When I touched the wall at my last USA Swimming nationals in 1998 I swore to never swim it again. And I'm holding myself to that until my dying day. The aforementioned drills are very good, especially kicking on your back. What you're trying to do is not drop your knees when you bring your legs up at the start of the kick. A very easy way to do this is to drop your hips, which gives your legs room to lift up for the prep for the kick. How to work on this? Hold your arms in front of you while in a flat position. With a small scull, lift your head up to breathe. At this point, thrust your hips downward and a little forward, then bend at the knees and bring your ankles up to your butt. You might find that you get less power out of this kick, but you lose the resistance from dropping your knees. It balances out.

You can find a good information about breaststroke and the kick here www.breaststroke.info The drill you a probably refering to is to kick with a pullbuoy. This will force you to keep your legs closed and "in the streamline of the body" causing minimal resistance in order to not loose the pullbuoy. An other drill which helped me alot is simply kicking on your back and making sure your knees don't break the surface. I find it to be the easiest way to learn a good kick.