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Anyway, in light of your reply your previous advice seems academic (as I suspected) so I can now ignore it. Thanks for that. I would have bowed to your expertise and wasted many more sessions struggling with it.
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A psychological disorder is: "Any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation." ~ George Kelly "The water is your friend.....you don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move." ~ Aleksandr Popov |
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![]() IMO the perfect two beat kick is actually half a butterfly stroke. Each kick is in time with the forward extension of your leading arm and uses up the first 45 degrees of rotation, which is then followed by the final 45 degrees supported by the hip drive. Which is the action practised in the underswitch drill, and acts against the catch using the momentum supplied by the arm extension, shoulder drop and kick.
The catch part of the butterfly, is the most powerful movement in swimming, so to me, it makes sense to try and replicate that in freestyle, even if it is with one arm, and the power is being applied in a rotational fashion rather than with undulation. Although, I suspect the rotation of the hips is perhaps a deliberate interpretation of undulation, and there may really be only one fundamental movement in swimming butterfly, breaststroke and freestyle. Where the hips supply the drive, and always act against the catch, with the arms and legs providing the initial propulsion. |
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A psychological disorder is: "Any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation." ~ George Kelly "The water is your friend.....you don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move." ~ Aleksandr Popov |
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![]() I have been having trouble with excessive knee bend with my 2BK particularly when I am starting to get tired, so I am wondering what people see as the benefits of a straight leg kick over the knee bend one which I see more of.
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Here's a demo outlining the basics (using a flutter kick) - illustrating that "excessive" bend is not desirable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqQB6JgVNc4 Last edited by borate : 12-21-2014 at 03:30 PM. |
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![]() Thanks for the video link. That certainly is not straight leg kicking.
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A psychological disorder is: "Any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation." ~ George Kelly "The water is your friend.....you don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move." ~ Aleksandr Popov |
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![]() Great lesson in holding stroke integrity at the end of the ladies 10K. The two girls in front are looking a bit srappy at the end of 9.5K and the other girl just get's her head down, keeps the stroke longer and wins the event, great swimming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcI5YsRU1Uw |
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As for knee bent, well a few things could be said. There's nothing intrinsically wrong in inducing some knee bent in the kicking, as long as the leg reaches full extension at some point (generally during the upbeat). Knee bent really becomes problematic when the leg keep this bent shape, with knees staying deep. So ideally, the leg should come back to the surface, and reach extension whilst moving back up to the surface. If this is achieved, then bending the knee a bit on the downbeat in order to improve angle of attack (ankle relative to the water surface) isn't a bad thing. Kicking only 15cm wide is very difficult to achieve, and will not presumably happen without doing a lot of video feedback, or having incredible proprioception. As Andy mentioned, best is to aim for as little as possible, and get the best possible. That said I'm working on a concept of an adjustable band, which would allow for setting the maximal amplitude width. Then it could be set to 15cm and thus provide with real time biofeedback. A first prototype was already achieved I could have something ready for sale by March 31th. |
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