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.
Had a breakthrough with my SDK today. Have been doing a fair amount of dolphin kicking with a board and a lot of butterfly. I think this has strengthened my core which in turn has helped my SDK's.
From a dive off the wall, 25m SDK - 19.30. That is the first time I have been under 20 seconds. It is also the first time I really felt the water. It actually felt like I was going forward rather than the usual 'up and down'.
I think it also has something to do with the fact that I have been working on ankle flexibility. I can now actually sit on my ankles for a full two minutes. In the past just ten seconds was agony.
Syd
Had a breakthrough with my SDK today. Have been doing a fair amount of dolphin kicking with a board and a lot of butterfly. I think this has strengthened my core which in turn has helped my SDK's.
From a dive off the wall, 25m SDK - 19.30. That is the first time I have been under 20 seconds. It is also the first time I really felt the water. It actually felt like I was going forward rather than the usual 'up and down'.
I think it also has something to do with the fact that I have been working on ankle flexibility. I can now actually sit on my ankles for a full two minutes. In the past just ten seconds was agony.
Syd
