freestyle vs kick-only times

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In my quest to figure out how to improve my freestyle speed away from embarrassingly slow times, I am working on the following three categories: 1) General form (especially arms) - I made a post about this awhile back with video and have improved a good deal since then, shaved a few seconds off my 50. 2) Stroke frequency - eventually going to one of those pace beepers and experiment with different frequencies. 3) Kick - kick frequency, kick width, and foot flexibility This post is concerned with the last of these - the kick. I recently compared my fastest kick-only time (no snorkel or flippers) with my fastest freestyle time and it is almost exactly 2x slower. I read various places that the kick provides a much smaller portion of the total propulsion in freestyle, so this gap seems smaller than I would expect. One explanation is that I am probably not giving the same attention/efffort to my kick during freestyle, which makes sense. Nevertheless, I still think I have much more work to do on my kick - its about ~86 seconds for 50m. Please let me know your kick times and ratio to equivalent free style times so I can set some reasonable goals and figure out how much my kick is holding me back. Thanks!
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  • here's links to my speed improvement programs My times were SCY 20.4 50 fr 28.0 50 k from a push in a brief Ian Crocker 50 scy 19.0 24.5 shaun jordan 50 scy 19.1 23.3 board with a dive, brief Garrett Weber Gale 50 LCM kicked in 27.2 & swam 21.4 in 50 LCM in a LZR, 22 low in jammer
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  • here's links to my speed improvement programs My times were SCY 20.4 50 fr 28.0 50 k from a push in a brief Ian Crocker 50 scy 19.0 24.5 shaun jordan 50 scy 19.1 23.3 board with a dive, brief Garrett Weber Gale 50 LCM kicked in 27.2 & swam 21.4 in 50 LCM in a LZR, 22 low in jammer
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