the mystery of breaststroke

This may do more harm than good, but it sounds like things are pretty bad already so it could be worth a shot........ I learned breaststroke with a frog kick rather than the whip kick, but knowing frog made it easier to switch. I teach swimming lessons and kids can't seem to understand whip kick, but they always catch on to frog. Anyways....my point.... Frog kick...bring your feet towards your bum with the bottoms of your feet together, knees out. Then straighten your legs, feet turned out. Snap your legs together, and while doing so point your toes so that when you ankles hit your toes are pointed. Keeping your feet flexed the whole time takes you absolutely nowhere no matter how hard you snap. I learned it, Frog. Airplane. Solider. As you get better at this then work on keeping your knees closer together and working with just the knees down except for a good snap together. I could be totally wrong, but it worked for me. Just my :2cents: Good Luck!! p.s. I'd love to be your "secret" nemisis....*evil laugh* I have no clue what my kick looks like LOL. I just do it how I always did. I draw my knees up pointing out from the hip not directly facing the bottom of the pool. It would be interesting for me to get some solid coaching on the stroke to break it down and see if I could tighten it up...ah well that's for the next project...right now I'm focusing on streamline and arching on my breath not so much tossing my head...it's good until the 3rd 50 of the 200...I start to go ragged but then I get it back under control a bit...weird really.

This may do more harm than good, but it sounds like things are pretty bad already so it could be worth a shot........ I learned breaststroke with a frog kick rather than the whip kick, but knowing frog made it easier to switch. I teach swimming lessons and kids can't seem to understand whip kick, but they always catch on to frog. Anyways....my point.... Frog kick...bring your feet towards your bum with the bottoms of your feet together, knees out. Then straighten your legs, feet turned out. Snap your legs together, and while doing so point your toes so that when you ankles hit your toes are pointed. Keeping your feet flexed the whole time takes you absolutely nowhere no matter how hard you snap. I learned it, Frog. Airplane. Solider. As you get better at this then work on keeping your knees closer together and working with just the knees down except for a good snap together. I could be totally wrong, but it worked for me. Just my :2cents: Good Luck!! p.s. I'd love to be your "secret" nemisis....*evil laugh* I have no clue what my kick looks like LOL. I just do it how I always did. I draw my knees up pointing out from the hip not directly facing the bottom of the pool. It would be interesting for me to get some solid coaching on the stroke to break it down and see if I could tighten it up...ah well that's for the next project...right now I'm focusing on streamline and arching on my breath not so much tossing my head...it's good until the 3rd 50 of the 200...I start to go ragged but then I get it back under control a bit...weird really.