5 THINGS THAT MAKE YOUR KICK EFFECTIVE (INSTEAD OF SLOWING YOU DOWN) 

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Thank you for the video on kicking!!! Your choice of words to describe is very nice makes things clear....

Never heard it summarised any better than that - thanks, helps a lot!

Best video on the kick I've seen yet. And I've subscribed and watched a lot of swim channels in the last 3 months. Thank you

Thank you for this great video on kicking. I will try to use your recommendations to my best tomorrow as I have 4 time 25 meters race leg only with son. I lost twice today by about 1 second each time so we are pretty close in speed. I found that in a race situation there is extremely good motivation to offset the difficulty of increasing the leg cadence as this seem to have a big impact on how propulsive our kicking is. I was surprised that this was not mentioned in your recommendations.

You make it very clear how to progress - even with my stiff runners ankles

i'm working on developing my swimming and learn a lot from your videos, thanks !

Another great video! Thanks. Just wanted to add this note. I am a triathlete and introduced some heavy lifting in my program a few months ago (mainly deadlifts and split squats). As a result my core strength improved massively and my swim got another upgrade. My body alignment is at its best and my kick became much more efficient and effortless. This fully validates episode #123 of the effortless swimming podcast. Thanks again.

Gold!! Timing is my problem.

Thankyou. The pigeon-toed idea really helped. It made me faster with reduced efforts.

Thank you coach!! Very well explained... swiss swimmer🇨🇭

Thank you kind sir! I require any and all tips. Will try and point my toes as I am very slow.

Awesome tips, thanks.

Simply the very best on this topic. Cannot agree enough.

Great channel thanks for the tips lots to work on.....

More great tips. Thanks heaps.

really liked the examples at the end of the clip thanks

super good video. this help me a lot while i am learning swim.

Thank you for the helpful video; your videos are always very informative, and the information is presented in an understandable manner.

The catch as you call it, or the pull as I call it comes just slightly before the down kick on the same side, so right side pull, then right side down kick. Some people try to link it with the recover arm which would be right side down kick, then left arm recover/enter. Many teach that the hips drive the arm/shoulder rotation. I don't agree, the pull/catch arm drives the hips, which is pretty much what this video shows. Also, in the bit where you are using the snorkel, your kick is pretty much vertical. When you go into full stroke then the kick is going sideways at an angle that pretty much matches the hip rotation angle. Much more effective. For me, learning to go pigeon toed and pronating my ankles has helped me drastically reduce my lap time with the flutter kick. It used to take me almost 2 minutes for a lap in a 25 yard pool. Now, I am down to about <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="75">1:15</a>, and getting faster. For years, I always tried to keep my toes pointed straight out behind me. Going pigeon toed and pronating also gives you a much more effective oar surface so you use the side of your foot for propulsion rather than just the top of your foot. Like you said here, it does add slightly to getting more toe point/hyper extension/plantar flexion.

great video ! thank you !!

Awesome thanks 👍

Thank You very much!!!

Your video is helpful. Thanks

I thought I had perfected all of these tips but was slower than ever. The bucket really seemed to hold me back !!!!

I will give it a try

I've just started swimming and still working on my kicks. Been applying this to my swimming lessons, and my instructor is seeing great improvement by the day🎉 Thank you 😃😃😃

Thank you

Excellent video

Thanks ❤

awesome video as per usual!!!! thank you so much!! (and beautiful song too n.n)

That’s amazing 🗽

Great vid

Very good

This sucking tummy in and squeezing glutes is such a great tip!!!

Watched this twice - lots of good pointers… 🤝

I liked swimming in bunburry 1998 good old days in WA.

Always thought it was supposed to be a diagonal kick while entering the hand in the water. Could also be interpreted like this if watching the vid in slow motion as the catch happens while the other hand is entering the water. Sure about the timed catch and kick?

As I saw in other video, another way to sync is to kick with one foot when you finish the opposite arm recovery and starting the reach (when you get your hand again into the water). Do you agree?

Choice,

Please make a video with ankle flexibility excercises. When it comes to effective kicking, flexible ankles are the number one requirement!

I'm an amateur triathlete from Brazil. Is the four or two kicking per stroke hate, very important for triathlon and open water as well in your opinion???

I want to have a stronger kick in long distance free style should I use Long fins or short fins like zoomers

Could you try to include some endurance speed videos please? You always seem to have sprinting.

That's a big bucket !

I was injured 3 years ago and my ankle has never recovered, it hurts when I try to point my toes backwards, would it be possible to just skip that part?

I am a little confused, you mention right catch with right downkick, but the video shows right hand catch with left down kick, so am I suppose to catch and kick on the same side? Or alternate side like right hand left leg? Thank you.

I feel as though my kick draws me back in breast stroke, the recovery of the feet has too much drag

I really enjoyed the video....until I realized i have to start doing kick drills :)

Great vid: question, where should the power mostly come from? The glutes/hips or quadriceps/knee? Thanks in advance

Wow that swimmer is FAST!

I am learning how to swim better at 42 of age but can't seem to sync my kick when front crawling. How would I fix that?

When I use a kickboard, I usually am the fastest among my teammates but when it comes to freestyle, I am a lot slower 😢 I think I'm having a hard time simultaneously kicking and properly using my arms 😢 Would appreciate tips from anyone, thanks!

if catch and kick is done together does this mean one kick one pull of can do more?

Thank you for the video I m not much clear about the body position you told I ll be more clear if u can show it out of the pook

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In the video I see the downward kick on the left in sink with the right catch. I watched over and over like 20 times. What am I missing?

What should I do if I feel very weird when I try to kick and catch using one side leg and arm? It’s like I can’t engage the right muscles. Are there any drills for it maybe?

What can you do to activate your legs? My problem is that I've got fast stroke rate and my pulling is really quite strong but it's almost like I have a problem with activating my kick. So it's a huge disadvantage in racing. Especially sprints.

I tried online coaching before the guy was good I got fast off of his training, but he only focused mainly on kicking drills. My kick got better. However, even though I told him I need hand technique he wouldn't focused on it and my shoulder kills now and back pain so I don't swim as much to avoid the pain. He stopped coaching me b/c of the shoulder pain, and my time is back up for 100M . Would you be able to help me to where I can avoid these injuries from online coaching, or you recommend I get a local swimmimg coach which haven't worked for me. I travel to Florida to training b/c the coach there helps me improve but always loose it when my form is not corrected when I swim back in NY. Sorry for the long message

Any thoughts, I hurt my back with several mishaps, a series of injujuries that I am left. with pain from my hips abdomon, ribs,? My back is so sore pain during the day with doing easy movements from swimming to not swimming light movements ,before iwas doing bit shower, but, some days fairly steady, if I can sleep tonight bed it has been so difficult to get my body to rest without pain, very difficult to sleep .Do you have a suggestions on what to do now to resr.and move in the water tomorrow.

Can you post the name of the music, please?

Does it mean that I need to keep my bellybutton and bums tense the whole time for effective kicks?

hi, can you clarify, in most of the featured swimmers, the kick is opposite to the outreached arm? but the host mentioned it's the same side...

toes tend to cramp when point in after 1.5k ish swim

Holding a coin in your butt analogy is used in ballet for toddlers too! 😂

@ <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="252">4:12</a> I would say this is an error because you say to time the CATCH on the right hand side with the downward kick on the RIGHT hand side. In fact one would want to kick the right hand in to a catch position via the LEFT hand side leg, no? Perhaps you mean to pull with the right hand while the right foot kicks down?

What if the top of your thighs keep rubbing each other?

What you think about Paltrinieris kick?

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Has anyone tried a ballerina foot and ankle stretcher to increase their ankle flexibility??? Think ima try one...

Thanks for some great tips but look can I please ask you and any other coach who reads this that in the UK where I live to bear in mind the following: In a UK pool we are generally NOT ALLOWED to use snorkels, fins or paddles. Also 99% of all pools in Britain are 25 metres - only 12 m of which is deep enough to do "aqua kicking" I am keen experienced triathlete of some 20 years and I have lost count of the times that I had to tell coaches online about our stupid swimming restrictions. Sorry about the rant but my frustration lies with the spineless "snowflake" brigade that are the swimming pool operators who don't want us to get hurt. Keep up the good work on these videos! Just seen the rest of the video and I had to add this to my comment - you mention videoing ourselves. I can hear a distant, collective cry of bewilderment from all UK triathletes and swimmer Video in a swimming pool?? Ha - ha -You would be very likely be be hauled out by the management and referred to the police on the premise of paedophilia. Recently our local swimming pool has been beset by notices banning mobile phones (let alone cameras) anywhere the pool. The object of all this is to ask you please to bear this all in mind when you make recommendations - thanking you in advance.

What suggestions do you have for swimming while menstruating? How can I swim in such a way, in which I won’t have additional cramps? Also, which brand of tampons are best for swimming?

You say kick on the same side at the same time as the catch; but then the video of Sharon doesn't demo this. Seems more important to kick on the opposite side as the hand is entering the water?

Great site, but pulling in your belly button and trying to breathe?

Haha..I have been swimming for over 40 years and basicly drag them with just a little for balance

Who here wants a private pool so you don't need to swim in public and everyone laughs at you like the comment

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