Recently I've noticed that my flutter kick is not the usual "one leg up, the other leg down", but instead it is "both leg up and both leg down". So I've been trying to correct this weird flutter kicking. I've done some vertical kicking drills, it went well, then I combined the verticle kick with my front crawl, seems OK. But switching to the proper flutter kick doesn't make me any faster. In fact I seem to get tired a lot more quickly.
I swim a TI style front crawl, I've found the new flutter kicking hampers my body rotation so I start experimenting with a more relaxed 2 beat kick. However I never seem to be able to control my flutter kick rythm. I was trying to kick with the leg opposite to the arm entering the water, but I've never been able to do it, I don't know why, it is always the leg on the same side of the entering arm that kicks.
Could anybody here tell me or point me to resources on how to establish a proper flutter kick timing and rythm? I've been goggling this information for a long time but nothing shows up.
Thanks!
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I have been doing the two leg kick when I am relaxing and stroke counting, two beats with a complete cycle, one beat with each arm stroke. But if I am sprinting I get back to the old standby 6 beat kick.
The TI stuff is great for people who have not been brought up through the ranks eg. I have been racing since I was 5 years old with a coach for13 years until I was 18, self coached for 54 years. We learned everything TI says naturally, touch your shoulders to your ears, extend the shoulders to make your body longer, roll, streamline, in 1956 the Japanese showed us something about making the body taller, catchup strokes. Hey we did it all.
I have been doing the two leg kick when I am relaxing and stroke counting, two beats with a complete cycle, one beat with each arm stroke. But if I am sprinting I get back to the old standby 6 beat kick.
The TI stuff is great for people who have not been brought up through the ranks eg. I have been racing since I was 5 years old with a coach for13 years until I was 18, self coached for 54 years. We learned everything TI says naturally, touch your shoulders to your ears, extend the shoulders to make your body longer, roll, streamline, in 1956 the Japanese showed us something about making the body taller, catchup strokes. Hey we did it all.
