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.
45 for a 50 is not a bad starting point, it's where you are.
you need to bring it down
I suggest you test 25's & 50's, and maybe even 100's
As you improve your kicking speed your 100 time should drop
Kicking is low hanging fruit for you, pick it and savor the flavor
good luck aqualung my friend,
start away
ande
Okay Ande. I will try your regimen, also on my dolphin kick.
oops. That was my 100y free in 0:56 and 50y flutter with board in 0:45, both in 25y pools. How should flutter times relate to free times?
Yes. I'm sure of this, but no electronic Swiss timing or touch pads, just eyeing that deck clock with the red and black arms, with my mouth ajar and my neck hurting from double-takes. After about five of them, she started slowing down and I began to almost keep up doing all-out free. I'm getting old and over the hill. All of these women are like little girls to me now. This one might have been college age. There was another one doing 50m flys on 0:30 repeated sets in a 25m pool. I asked her if she does that often. She said that she was just kidding. The second siting has little to do with kicking but geesh.
45 for a 50 is not a bad starting point, it's where you are.
you need to bring it down
I suggest you test 25's & 50's, and maybe even 100's
As you improve your kicking speed your 100 time should drop
Kicking is low hanging fruit for you, pick it and savor the flavor
good luck aqualung my friend,
start away
ande
Okay Ande. I will try your regimen, also on my dolphin kick.
oops. That was my 100y free in 0:56 and 50y flutter with board in 0:45, both in 25y pools. How should flutter times relate to free times?
Yes. I'm sure of this, but no electronic Swiss timing or touch pads, just eyeing that deck clock with the red and black arms, with my mouth ajar and my neck hurting from double-takes. After about five of them, she started slowing down and I began to almost keep up doing all-out free. I'm getting old and over the hill. All of these women are like little girls to me now. This one might have been college age. There was another one doing 50m flys on 0:30 repeated sets in a 25m pool. I asked her if she does that often. She said that she was just kidding. The second siting has little to do with kicking but geesh.
