How much does a swimmer's kick affect his/her stroke length? Should a weak kicker use long stroke style? I am a WEAK kiker and 5.58 feet (170 cm) tall, what is my optimal stroke count for 25 yard?
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I don't actually train stroke per length. I do many different tries with same amount of effort (the effort I can maintain for hundreds of yards) to see which one has the best combination of stroke length and speed, and then I take the stroke length of that one as my stroke length.
Is there a chance that we could look at you swimming? Can you use a site such as iTube (or something like that) to maybe post a footage?
The reasons I am asking :
Given your size (170cm), you should be able to swim 17strokes without any problem whatsoever. If you can't (without feeling pain in the shoulders), that's probably because of some major technical flaws such as a very wide kick (like Terry have suggested already).
You know, I'm not saying you're a bad swimmer. Pardon me if I use the expression "major technical flaw". English is a second language therefore I sometimes lack those important "shades of gray" when comes the time to find qualificative attributes.
But yeah. Bottom line, if we could take a look it seems that things would become much more clear
I don't actually train stroke per length. I do many different tries with same amount of effort (the effort I can maintain for hundreds of yards) to see which one has the best combination of stroke length and speed, and then I take the stroke length of that one as my stroke length.
Is there a chance that we could look at you swimming? Can you use a site such as iTube (or something like that) to maybe post a footage?
The reasons I am asking :
Given your size (170cm), you should be able to swim 17strokes without any problem whatsoever. If you can't (without feeling pain in the shoulders), that's probably because of some major technical flaws such as a very wide kick (like Terry have suggested already).
You know, I'm not saying you're a bad swimmer. Pardon me if I use the expression "major technical flaw". English is a second language therefore I sometimes lack those important "shades of gray" when comes the time to find qualificative attributes.
But yeah. Bottom line, if we could take a look it seems that things would become much more clear
