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.
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Let's get this thread back on track
I'd like to see swimmers who are slow kickers
accept the challenge to improve YOUR kick
test
do the KICK IMPROVEMENT training,
retest and
post your results here.
those of you who already started
Please retest and post your progress
Ande
As soon as this coming weekend is over--Metro. College Swim Championships, I am going to really start working on my kicking (freestyle and SDK) I would like to do some of the tests that you do--where you time your 25 kick every once in a while to monitor progress--I've never had a coach try that before, and I think it definatly would be interesting to see how fast one could get strictly kicking (and swimming too as a result).
Let's get this thread back on track
I'd like to see swimmers who are slow kickers
accept the challenge to improve YOUR kick
test
do the KICK IMPROVEMENT training,
retest and
post your results here.
those of you who already started
Please retest and post your progress
Ande
As soon as this coming weekend is over--Metro. College Swim Championships, I am going to really start working on my kicking (freestyle and SDK) I would like to do some of the tests that you do--where you time your 25 kick every once in a while to monitor progress--I've never had a coach try that before, and I think it definatly would be interesting to see how fast one could get strictly kicking (and swimming too as a result).
