I'd like some suggestions on how to improve the BR kick. I've been working on flexibility and legs strengthening exercises but maybe I'm missing something. I can barely kick a 100 under 2min and I can pull 100 in 1:44. I'd like to get my kick down to 1:45 and my pull down to 1:30. I have three weeks before a meet. What are your thoughts?
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This is something I posted on another thread, but it still applies:
Improve the ankle flexibility (out to side, there are a few dry-land stretches that could help with this)
You could keep your knees closer together and tilt feet outward more, right when they are close to your gluts... Something that has worked for me is bringing the feet to the gluts very fast, while keeping the knees together... this action really helps to set up the next phase of pointing ankles/feet out, and it even feels like momentarily loading a spring...
**new input**
I've been thinking about a new type of fin, just for breastrokers. A fin which has an extension on the inside of the foot. Like a paddle on the inside of the foot... This would really help to train the outward pointing action during the kick... Anyone want to make this product? Here's my proof of owning the idea... What's the date...? just joking...
Mermaid propulsion cannot be rated by percentage from the legs or the arms. There really is not a big motor or a small motor.
Nearly every group of muscles is involed in propulsion.
The breakdown of arms only is faster than legs only, but it is the combination of the two that makes us move thru the water.
Good description, Allen. I think we're saying the same thing. I know that I don't do an exaggerated kick outward, but I do sometimes consciously think about bringing the legs together for that final snap towards the end. If there's no room for that last snap, then it's a clue to me that my kick is getting too narrow.
Breaststroke kick is sort of difficult to describe, isn't it.
I've been thinking about a new type of fin, just for breastrokers. A fin which has an extension on the inside of the foot. Like a paddle on the inside of the foot... This would really help to train the outward pointing action during the kick... Anyone want to make this product? Here's my proof of owning the idea... What's the date...? just joking...
Sorry, JMiller, but you're too late. Speedo already makes one and it's awesome:
www.swimoutlet.com/.../3626.htm
...And we discussed them here last July (start at Post #26):
forums.usms.org/showthread.php
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