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.
JAZZ
very nice keep it up
pretty soon you should get someone to time you on your test kicks
so you can have and report results to the 10th of a second
because it's the last few tenths you're able drop that mean everything
Eventually you'll get to sticking points,
that's where you'll struggle to eek out improvements
you might need to go most of a season with no progress
but you're likely to see improvement when you taper
so keep it up and let's see how much being a faster kicker helps your 50 free
ande
Update
Today I did 12x25 flutter kick with a board, every fourth one fast.
:15
:14
:14
Definitely faster after less than one week.
JAZZ
very nice keep it up
pretty soon you should get someone to time you on your test kicks
so you can have and report results to the 10th of a second
because it's the last few tenths you're able drop that mean everything
Eventually you'll get to sticking points,
that's where you'll struggle to eek out improvements
you might need to go most of a season with no progress
but you're likely to see improvement when you taper
so keep it up and let's see how much being a faster kicker helps your 50 free
ande
Update
Today I did 12x25 flutter kick with a board, every fourth one fast.
:15
:14
:14
Definitely faster after less than one week.
