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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Fort,
How do you integrate the kick with the stroke?
When you do sprints with rest, concentrate on blasting your legs.
Also work on blasting your legs over 15's, 25's, 50's 75's & 100's
you need to develop some speed endurance for your kick
How about synchronizing kicking with the stroke ?
I think that for a slower kicker that improve to be a decent/good/awersome kicker the crucial step is integrate the kick into the stroke, at the end of day there's no race about kicking only.
Kicking without any connections with the rest of body don't look at all like the way to go, just look at World-class swimmers.
Ande and/or anyone, can you throw in some drills/suggestions to work at syncronizing the kick with the stroke, so even some members of The Club : Horrible Flutter kicker can add the famous 6-beats kick at your arsenal a day ?
regards
Fort,
How do you integrate the kick with the stroke?
When you do sprints with rest, concentrate on blasting your legs.
Also work on blasting your legs over 15's, 25's, 50's 75's & 100's
you need to develop some speed endurance for your kick
How about synchronizing kicking with the stroke ?
I think that for a slower kicker that improve to be a decent/good/awersome kicker the crucial step is integrate the kick into the stroke, at the end of day there's no race about kicking only.
Kicking without any connections with the rest of body don't look at all like the way to go, just look at World-class swimmers.
Ande and/or anyone, can you throw in some drills/suggestions to work at syncronizing the kick with the stroke, so even some members of The Club : Horrible Flutter kicker can add the famous 6-beats kick at your arsenal a day ?
regards
