So earlier at practice I experimented with flat feet coming off every wall. There was a very noticeable difference. I could surface with ease past the flags, without any DKs. In my first two years of swimming, I have used just the balls (and toes) of my feet in coming off the walls.
Flat feet (that is, both ball and heel) feels a little awkward right now, like any technique change, but I think I'm going to start adjusting to it for permanent use.
Thanks to Jim Thornton who suggested I make this a poll!
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You finish from a flat foot to the balls of your feet. Why would being in the water and pushing off a flat surface dictate the way a person jumps (which is a turn off a wall). Starts from a block for track, a jump ball in basketball, jumping rope, high jump, long jump, gymnastics, cheerleading, yike! Because some swimmers can't do it and even some great swimmers can't do it, doesn't make doing it wrong - Right, right?
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win" Ed Macauley
"It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice." Eric Lindros
"Practice is the best of all instructors" Publilius Syrus
If the many things that are hard to do were easy, we'd have a lot more people succeeding at doing difficult things. Coach T.
Try to move off the wall from a flat foot and extend off the wall from the balls of your feet. Nuff said!
You finish from a flat foot to the balls of your feet. Why would being in the water and pushing off a flat surface dictate the way a person jumps (which is a turn off a wall). Starts from a block for track, a jump ball in basketball, jumping rope, high jump, long jump, gymnastics, cheerleading, yike! Because some swimmers can't do it and even some great swimmers can't do it, doesn't make doing it wrong - Right, right?
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win" Ed Macauley
"It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice." Eric Lindros
"Practice is the best of all instructors" Publilius Syrus
If the many things that are hard to do were easy, we'd have a lot more people succeeding at doing difficult things. Coach T.
Try to move off the wall from a flat foot and extend off the wall from the balls of your feet. Nuff said!
