My *** kick currently takes me either nowhere or slightly BACKWARDS. =)
(Boy, that sounds a lot like my once-broken flutter kick I was complaining about here. =))
My instructor insists that I do it in the following way:
1. streamline
2. bend legs keeping knees together
3. begin to separate feet, keeping knees together
4. whip legs out and back together, finally separating knees for an instant
I've tried this a thousand times and while I do move quite nicely when I add in my arm strokes, my kick contributes little or nothing to that movement.
I've watched a bunch of videos and I've found that most competitive swimmers (and even James Bond in Casino Royale =)) do the following:
1. streamline
2. bend legs AND separate needs to form a bent "V" of sorts
3. whip legs back together
Which style do you guys use? Does it make sense that I wouldn't be getting any power from the former style? I haven't even tried the second style, but I have a feeling it would work a lot better for me.
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Okay.
And just to be clear, method "A" described in my original post is what I'm doing now. It is decidedly NOT very frog-like.
Method "B" is exactly the "frog" method and it's also the one I think will work better.
So I will take that advice explicitly: FROG it up. =)
It can't possibly be any worse than going backwards. And if it is, well, then I'll have invented a new reverse breastroke.. it'll be the fifth stroke for the olympics. =)
Okay.
And just to be clear, method "A" described in my original post is what I'm doing now. It is decidedly NOT very frog-like.
Method "B" is exactly the "frog" method and it's also the one I think will work better.
So I will take that advice explicitly: FROG it up. =)
It can't possibly be any worse than going backwards. And if it is, well, then I'll have invented a new reverse breastroke.. it'll be the fifth stroke for the olympics. =)
