How to improve your BR Kick

We are talking about breaststroke, right? Isn't it normal for the kick to be much more propulsive than the pull? If not I must be a freak because my whip kick is probably 4X faster than my breaststroke pull. I've been working on my pull a lot, and it has improved.. but still nothing close to my kick. Then again, with freestyle it's the total opposite. Some things my coach has said that have helped with my kick are: - bring your heels up to your buttocks - snap the legs together at the end. finish in complete leg streamline, with toes pointed and soles touching - wait until your heels are all the way up before turning out the feet - try to feel the catch as your feet grab the water when the kick starts - accelerate during the kick* *but don't kick straight back! to avoid injury make sure there is a slight rounded path, your feet go out to the sides a bit, then come back together while thrusting back. It's a subtle thing, not a huge froggy kick, but in my experience it makes a difference. Use your groin muscles. Kicking too narrowly and straight is what has caused my "breaststrokers knee" in the past. It's harder to avoid kicking narrowly when you're sharing a lane, but you need to be careful, especially when sprinting. EDIT: one other thing that will definitely improve your BR kick is to do BR when others are kicking flutter with a board. Look at the wall to check for dead spots during recovery, aiming for a smooth unbroken motion. It's amazing how tired it is possible to get doing BR kick intervals. There is so much rest in every cycle, yet after 10 50s I invariably feel like I can hardly get my legs back up into position for each kick. It's a great way to work on technique under stress because you are forced to squeeze out every last piece of glide in order to keep up.

We are talking about breaststroke, right? Isn't it normal for the kick to be much more propulsive than the pull? If not I must be a freak because my whip kick is probably 4X faster than my breaststroke pull. I've been working on my pull a lot, and it has improved.. but still nothing close to my kick. Then again, with freestyle it's the total opposite. Some things my coach has said that have helped with my kick are: - bring your heels up to your buttocks - snap the legs together at the end. finish in complete leg streamline, with toes pointed and soles touching - wait until your heels are all the way up before turning out the feet - try to feel the catch as your feet grab the water when the kick starts - accelerate during the kick* *but don't kick straight back! to avoid injury make sure there is a slight rounded path, your feet go out to the sides a bit, then come back together while thrusting back. It's a subtle thing, not a huge froggy kick, but in my experience it makes a difference. Use your groin muscles. Kicking too narrowly and straight is what has caused my "breaststrokers knee" in the past. It's harder to avoid kicking narrowly when you're sharing a lane, but you need to be careful, especially when sprinting. EDIT: one other thing that will definitely improve your BR kick is to do BR when others are kicking flutter with a board. Look at the wall to check for dead spots during recovery, aiming for a smooth unbroken motion. It's amazing how tired it is possible to get doing BR kick intervals. There is so much rest in every cycle, yet after 10 50s I invariably feel like I can hardly get my legs back up into position for each kick. It's a great way to work on technique under stress because you are forced to squeeze out every last piece of glide in order to keep up.