I notice that emphasis is always made on "narrow" flutter kicks when I watch freestyle DVDs. Why do flutter kicks have to be narrow?
Is there any good solution/drill for correcting wide flutter kicks? I happen to have very wide flutter kicks and wonder if that's one of the reasons for being slow.
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Swimming as if in a small pipe is much faster than having a wide profile.
A wide kick means that the profile is big...which could result in way too much drag as Colin and Kirk pointed out.
I recently coached a former runner into not kicking much at all. (He was kicking the water like one would a soccer ball.)
With the pointed toes and compacted kick...his times improved dramatically.
Swimming as if in a small pipe is much faster than having a wide profile.
A wide kick means that the profile is big...which could result in way too much drag as Colin and Kirk pointed out.
I recently coached a former runner into not kicking much at all. (He was kicking the water like one would a soccer ball.)
With the pointed toes and compacted kick...his times improved dramatically.
