Help My Flutter Kick is Horrible!

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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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  • I would think at the elite level or those at the masters level who are really competitive at Zone/Nationals, they all must have really good kicks (and everything else) to be that fast. Kinda like PGA golfers - they all have to have a really good drive. Otherwise, they wouldn't be at that level. For golfers it's not just drive: there's: Driving distance? Fairways hit Greens in regulation? Putting? / Putts per hole Average score this article covers it well. The real difference between you & Tiger: our exclusive survey of amateur play at Torrey Pines reveals this: the gap between you and the pros is even bigger than you think In swimming: there are critical factors that can be quantified and compared
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  • I would think at the elite level or those at the masters level who are really competitive at Zone/Nationals, they all must have really good kicks (and everything else) to be that fast. Kinda like PGA golfers - they all have to have a really good drive. Otherwise, they wouldn't be at that level. For golfers it's not just drive: there's: Driving distance? Fairways hit Greens in regulation? Putting? / Putts per hole Average score this article covers it well. The real difference between you & Tiger: our exclusive survey of amateur play at Torrey Pines reveals this: the gap between you and the pros is even bigger than you think In swimming: there are critical factors that can be quantified and compared
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