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.
This may have been answered already, my apologies if so. Is it possible to make any deduction from your flutter kick top speed being as good as anyone's with fins, but much slower without? Yeah I know ankle flexibility and foot size are a couple of the issues, but is a very fast fin-aided flutter kick indicative of some potential for a good kick? Or are fins the great equalizer no matter how bad a kicker you might be. Just trying to see if there is light at the end of my tunnel. :)
This may have been answered already, my apologies if so. Is it possible to make any deduction from your flutter kick top speed being as good as anyone's with fins, but much slower without? Yeah I know ankle flexibility and foot size are a couple of the issues, but is a very fast fin-aided flutter kick indicative of some potential for a good kick? Or are fins the great equalizer no matter how bad a kicker you might be. Just trying to see if there is light at the end of my tunnel. :)
