Hi,
I have seen people doing Head-up dolphin kick drill. With arms on the side or arms extended.
What is your opinion on this drill?
Thanks in advance.
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When your arms are by your sides, it is primarily your head that determines where your body goes. Your chest is pulsing up and down. How do you convert that vertical energy into horizontal movement?
Well, by using your head, literally and figuratively. Its 10-lb weight, a considerable distance from your center of mass, becomes your "rudder."
By artfully manipulating it within a fairly small range of relaxed movement, you can channel that energy into mostly-forward movement.
This is something that totally eludes me. On a good day I can get my head in sync with my undulation so it helps rather than hinders it, but generating forward movement with my head is something I've never managed.
Of course, I have trouble generating forward movement by undulating period. A couple weeks ago we did a drill where we did a flip turn half way down the lane and then were supposed to dolphin kick under water to get going forward again before breaking out. I don't think I moved forward an inch while dolphin kicking. In general I seem to be able to maintain some speed by dolphin kicking or undulating but not generate it, unless of course I have fins on in which case I can accelerate and zoom along quite nicely. :dunno:
When your arms are by your sides, it is primarily your head that determines where your body goes. Your chest is pulsing up and down. How do you convert that vertical energy into horizontal movement?
Well, by using your head, literally and figuratively. Its 10-lb weight, a considerable distance from your center of mass, becomes your "rudder."
By artfully manipulating it within a fairly small range of relaxed movement, you can channel that energy into mostly-forward movement.
This is something that totally eludes me. On a good day I can get my head in sync with my undulation so it helps rather than hinders it, but generating forward movement with my head is something I've never managed.
Of course, I have trouble generating forward movement by undulating period. A couple weeks ago we did a drill where we did a flip turn half way down the lane and then were supposed to dolphin kick under water to get going forward again before breaking out. I don't think I moved forward an inch while dolphin kicking. In general I seem to be able to maintain some speed by dolphin kicking or undulating but not generate it, unless of course I have fins on in which case I can accelerate and zoom along quite nicely. :dunno:
