I wouldn't say that swimmers bend their ankles more than ballerinas. Ballet dancers point their feet as much as they can, but the line of your foot has to be straight and rotating hips inwards is absolutely forbidden for aesthetic reasons and safety. It's also considered cheating. Many dancers stretch and train their ankles every day but because of their physics it isn’t always possible to get those overextensions. Still a good video and really helpful for swimmers!
I have decent ankle flexibility and mobility (for a beginner) but I have problems with coordination - to relax and to flex the calves in the right moment. Too many things to coordinate... 🙂
@@SkillsNT Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately pools are still closed in my country and lakes are freezing cold so watching youtube is the closest thing to swimming I can get...
@@SkillsNT I forgot to mention I like your videos very much. Lots of solid information. Actually I wrote the first comment mostly to help you with YT stats - that's a small thing I can do in return for your hard work. Thanks again.
@@inz_uzi I really appreciate it! Yes you do help. I feel your pain about the pools being closed. Hopefully they'll open soon and we will get to enjoy swimming again
Obviously by internally rotating at the hip the side of the big toe comes down to the floor and the foot is now at an angle where the heel is not under directly under the foot but to the outside of it. That's what's letting the foot touch the floor not that your ankle joint somehow became more flexible. That's not saying that keeping the hips a little internally rotated might not make you a faster swimmer just that your ankle joint flexibility did not change. At 2:47 in the video watch the woman nearer to the camera. Note that her kneecaps are pointed straight at the sky, not at each other. That means her hips are NOT in internal rotation. As far as actively using your lower leg muscles to point your toes at any time during any swimming stroke, I have looked as hard as I could for any EMG studies of the lower legs during swimming to show what muscles fire and when. Not only could I not find any studies of this, I cannot even find any studies simultaneously measuring the contraction of the quads, the hamstrings and the gluteals. Without studies like this no one knows for sure what muscles fire, when they fire,or what they're really doing. If you know of any studies like this, please let us all know. To really swim at the highest possible level this is critical information.
I disagree your not soposed to actively point your toes wile dolphin kicking this will actually decrease range of motion because you are keeping them still
One other benefit about going pigeon toed when using the flutter kick or the dolphin kick, besides the extra ankle flexing or extending, is that the whole side of your foot becomes part of your paddle rather than just the toes.
AI를 이용해서 번역한 한글 자막처럼 보이네요. 한국어 사용자 분들을 위해, 이 댓글을 남깁니다. mobility : 이동성(x), 가동성(o) point your toes: 발가락을 가리키다(x), 발목을 반듯하게 펴다(o) trick: 트릭, 비결(o) hip: 엉덩이(x), 고관절(o) range of motion: 동작 범위(x), 가동 범위(o) hip internal rotation: 고관절 안쪽 돌림 calf muscle: 종아리 근육 plantar flexion: 발바닥 쪽으로 굽힌 상태 fin: 지느러미(x), 오리발(o) work: 훈련하다, 연마하다
Yes, there great for that purpose. I use Fina Gold Zoomers, they are small ...with a profile like Bart Simpson's head. They don't alter you technique too much or interfere with timing your catch - basically you can swim normally with them. I find larger fins are good for drills with a float or snorkel 👍👍
Should I do this for all my dolphin kicks/underwaters and even while swimming butterfly? Is it a skill to implement into basically any movement in swimming using the legs like this?
no entiendo por qué en el vídeo decís que se puede pensar que la rotación interna es algo bueno pero no para nadar, y a continuación dices qué muchos buenos nadadores lo hacen. ¿ entonces en qué quedamos? ¿ se debe rotar internamente la cadera para patear durante el nado y ganar efectividad o no? Aparte de esto, muchas gracias por el vídeo porque cuando respondas a mi duda, seguramente me serà muy útil!
My left arm pulls more water than my right and don’t feel any soreness in arms or shoulder because my right shoulder is dislocated. When I kick, my legs naturally comes to the surface of the water, most of the time I am kicking the surface of the water and not getting any propulsion, is it because my butt is big or shoulder I arc my back or look foward more to sink my legs down a little bit?
