I am slow, and when I mean slow, I mean slow. I can do a 26 sec 50 with fins, but without I come in just under 1:20! I think a big part of it is just taking the fins off and doing a lot of kick sets to learn to feel the water better with my feet. I have a good breaststroke kick so I don't think my problem is an overly weak pair of legs, although they could be in better shape. Also, myankles are fairly flexible as I can point my toes and make my feet bend backwards past an even position with my shins. However, I do think that I need to loosen up my ankles when I kick. I feel like I get more out of my kick for those brief moments when I allow my ankles to snap back and forth with my kick. I think I actually need to relax more to kick faster as weird as that sounds.
I suppose the answer to my question is that I simply need to take of the fins and do kick set after kick set until I learn to feel the water better with my feet and become more efficient.
you asked "How do you breathe?"
(when you're doing flutter kick in streamline position, SFK)
1) develop your ability to do an entire length without a breath,
without breaking streamline
2) if the above is not possible, here's 2 options
take small hand scull up to a half breastroke stroke,
breathe
then get back in streamline position
or
drop one arm, keeping the other out front
do a freestyle stroke,
breathe
then resume streamlining
you could also flutter kick on your back
ande
Ande,
When flutter kicking without a board, how do you breathe? I find that when I roll to the side to breathe, I lose my momentum. By the time I get to the other end (25y) I'm so out of breath that it takes 30 sec to a minute to recover enough to do another. I seem to do better with the back (obviously), *** and fly kick and don't have any problem breathing when doing those.
you asked "How do you breathe?"
(when you're doing flutter kick in streamline position, SFK)
1) develop your ability to do an entire length without a breath,
without breaking streamline
2) if the above is not possible, here's 2 options
take small hand scull up to a half breastroke stroke,
breathe
then get back in streamline position
or
drop one arm, keeping the other out front
do a freestyle stroke,
breathe
then resume streamlining
you could also flutter kick on your back
ande
Ande,
When flutter kicking without a board, how do you breathe? I find that when I roll to the side to breathe, I lose my momentum. By the time I get to the other end (25y) I'm so out of breath that it takes 30 sec to a minute to recover enough to do another. I seem to do better with the back (obviously), *** and fly kick and don't have any problem breathing when doing those.
