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.
no improvement on my SDK time. Am mightily impressed by that 15.5 of notveryfast's and am beginning to wonder what I am doing wrong that is making me lag behind by 7 seconds. That is a huge margin over 25m! To be honest I am not really feeling the water when I SDK. My kick feels ineffectual and I am not entirely sure where the 'power' for my kick should be coming from: my legs or my hips or my whole body.
When I do it, I generate the power from my core body muscles, moving the hips powerfully up and down. The power then "ripples" down the legs to the feet. It also feels like a very high level of effort indeed, a high but not max effort takes me 17-18 secs for 25m SDK, to take the extra couple of seconds off I have to move my hips up and down with every ounce of force I can muster.
no improvement on my SDK time. Am mightily impressed by that 15.5 of notveryfast's and am beginning to wonder what I am doing wrong that is making me lag behind by 7 seconds. That is a huge margin over 25m! To be honest I am not really feeling the water when I SDK. My kick feels ineffectual and I am not entirely sure where the 'power' for my kick should be coming from: my legs or my hips or my whole body.
When I do it, I generate the power from my core body muscles, moving the hips powerfully up and down. The power then "ripples" down the legs to the feet. It also feels like a very high level of effort indeed, a high but not max effort takes me 17-18 secs for 25m SDK, to take the extra couple of seconds off I have to move my hips up and down with every ounce of force I can muster.
