Unless you swim the butterfly, is there any use of doing streamlined dolphin kicks in open water? Has anyone dolphin kicked long distance in OW? :rolleyes: (if anyone dolphin kick crossed the English Channel, they wouldn't be called Channel swimmer but Channel kicker :D)
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In my experience, yes. I experimented with this on lots of OW training swims recently and found alternating to dolphin kick to work quite well on longer swims, /especially/ when wearing a buoyant wetsuit. (Orca 3.8) Fly kick is much more powerful than free kick and you can synch it with your free stroke quite well, the body movement fits better with swimming in swells, you get more propulsion out of your legs in a wetsuit with fly than free kicking. Note; I was training to purely be able to swim a very long distance OW at a sustained pace, not race.
In my experience, yes. I experimented with this on lots of OW training swims recently and found alternating to dolphin kick to work quite well on longer swims, /especially/ when wearing a buoyant wetsuit. (Orca 3.8) Fly kick is much more powerful than free kick and you can synch it with your free stroke quite well, the body movement fits better with swimming in swells, you get more propulsion out of your legs in a wetsuit with fly than free kicking. Note; I was training to purely be able to swim a very long distance OW at a sustained pace, not race.
