How to improve your kick in swimming
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- čas přidán 13. 06. 2013
- Wall kicking exercise is very efficient in swimming. You can improve your kicking power and become faster in swimming. Tips: make sure you hands touch the wall during this drill. Do this exercise for 10 to 20 seconds with rest, then repeat several times.
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0:39 That was majestic.
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Thank you for posting this and rewinding back definitely help me as much. Because the important steps to practice makes perfect. Yet, these are incredibly important for someone to swim properly with their feet, using their legs, and body movements in many ways of swimming the proper and safest way.
+karoline celis Thank you for your feedback, we definitely appreciate it :)
thank you, your voice is good
i still find difficulties in the first kicking form.. don't seem to move forward much :/
I can kick well when holding the Wall but when I try without wall i sink
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You're probably not horizontal enough.
Try a float.
I have a bad foot and can't point it can I still learn to kick and swim?
thanks!!
Great idea, thanks
Absolutely! Always happy to help!
thanks for the sharing...
I will do this on tomorrow or Monday. Can't wait
+Valentine Camp Let us know how it goes :) Good luck!
Thanks for teaching me... I like I never do swim
This video of the best of this matter :)
Do you want to bend the knees slightly when performing the freestyle kick?
thanks man superb tip
+chandru sekar Glad you found it helpful! Cheers!
Thanks again
Most people says you only get 5-15% propulsion from your kick but in my case i can get about 30% propulsion at a good pace. I can easily compete with my co-swimmer just by kicking!
how did you calculate that?
ralexlu with a bronometer
yeh,i have leg injury(shins-chronic compatment syndrome)and i cant run/ride a bike,but i can swim,and best goes freestyle,BUT i cant fullly use my legs,if i do i get cramp in my shin muscles,so my legs just floating a bit,i try to use as little power as posible just to keep legs moving/kicking beneath the surface,if i do use more power with my legs then swimming is much more eazy,i go faster and i dont have to get all the power out of my upperbody
Thanks for your tutorial, sir! Do you keep your feet out at all times when swimming breastroke?
Unlike in other strokes, breaststroke requires to keep you feet pointed out. Squeeze around and push part, however, bring them together.
You almost get a straight line at a certain point from knee to toe. My ankles are stuck at somewhere between 90 and 45 degrees. I don't know how to straighten them.
How do you make a turn without water going into your nose? Great vid!
I find butterfly the hardest. Just can't seem to get the motion in place :(
I am have been swimming three times a week for four months and for the first time i can see i actually have waist so i am delighted. However, i want to tone more, i wantto work the lower abdomen and love handles, i have a kickboard and pullbuoy and now getting my head under the water when using the kickboard to maximise the work on the lower core, what else can i do? I cannot stay any longer in the pool but it is getting easier so less efffective. I dont eant paddles or fins.
One of the most efficient ways to improve your swimming is doing exercises on dryland. Going to the gym and standing in plank position will definitely improve your core as well as kicking freestyle in sitting position. Thanks for watching the video!
Great!!!!!!!
It's nice and helps
+Robbie Xiao Thanks!
wow thanks :))
i've been taking swimming lessons for 3 days,i already know the glide,the bubbles,the arming and etc. but there's one problem,the kick. i can kick tho,but it would take me minutes just to get to another place,i would stay at one place kicking for like,maybe 1 minute ,lels.
I have just started swimming... during kicking my stamina goes down... how can i improve my kicking...my coach says that my kick is no strong...plz suggest me.
+sang uni Thanks for stopping by! Kicking by is essentially your "engine" that moves your body forward. Did you try using swimming fins?
You need to do core-strengthening exercises, this is where the power you need will come from. Also just practice, a LOT! It takes time but it is oh so worth it if you love the water like I do!
Do you have tips for developing shoulder mobility?
Thank you for your question. Something as easy as warming up before swimming will prevent injuries and help you rotate arms in the water with ease. One particular exercise we use is grabbing the towel with both hands at a length of your shoulders (you can start wider in order prevent injuries) and rotate arms back and forth. This should increase your flexibility over time.
This is helpful but I'm not flexible at all in the ankles
I think using swimfins for a while improved my style.
Imma try dat.
If I use fins, I go really fast by just using my legs. However if I don't use fins, I simply almost don't move forward and I can't figure out what I do wrong. I checked many videos but the magic penny still needs to drop
+Marcel Lennartz Have you tried asking somebody to film you underwater so you could see what your kicking looks like underwater? Then you can compare it with other videos and see what can be done better. In general, keep you foot relaxed and pointing inside, try not to bend your knees (does not apply to breastroke). Specifically in butterfly kicking, elasticity would be the key. Hope that helps a bit and thanks for stopping by and watching the videos!
Marcel, how is your progress after one year of writing this comment>?
me too
what is the name of the last type of kicking
It's called breastroke kick. Feel free to ask any other questions about swimming technique and thanks for stopping by and watching the video!
how to keep the stomach and buttocks up from sinking while swimming
+Joelraj Samuel Some of our students found it helpful to incorporate swim buoy or even fins to keep the body more afloat.
kicking is just so hard for me, i feel like i can control my upper part easily, but i feel like my kicks are just a mess and wuss, not moving much and yet making me exhausted easily !!!! #fighting
Let us give you a few pointers here. When kicking in freestyle or backstroke, make sure you foot is relaxed and pointing inside. Try not to bend your knees but rather achieve elasticity all the way from an upper part of your leg. Last but not least, keep your heels in the water under the surface and create a little fountain that's coming from your kicking! Good luck and thanks for watching the video!
When i use a float and i try to kick i can't go anywhere i just stay there.
Hi there! Which stroke are you trying to kick and are you using a kick board?
I'm trying to do the front crawl and I am using a kick board
To help you a little bit with kicking we can recommend the following tips: make sure your feet are relaxed and pointing inside, place both hands on top of the kick board and hold the top edges with both hands. Engage you thighs and try not to bend your knees (natural bend will still occur due to kicking). Last but not least, it is not a bad idea to try kicking with fins first and get the motion idea. Lots of our students learned freestyle kick that way! Good luck and thanks for watching!
i keep sinking in :(
and i can't keep my self underwater too long, i start floating on water😔
be like a stick, and don't spread your arms out, keep your head kinda down or just move it up a lil to see in front of you, and keep your legs together.
Kam Zi it takes practice and repetition, so your legs become flexible.
Kicking against a wall is the worst way to improve your kick as you have no way to measure your propulsion. You should always use a kickboard or any other way that allows you to move forward and feel the effect that any change has on your kick.
+Fernando PerezGil Thanks for stopping by and watching! Actually this is just one of the examples how you can improve your kick in swimming. Another great way is kicking without a keyboard while in streamline position. Not sure if you heard about this exercise but it really straighten your core and makes you feel how powerful your kick is. There are definitely a lot of great exercises but they not necessarily have to be all with kickboard. Cheers!
Absolutely, kickboard is not mandatory. My personal experience with kicking against a wall is terrible... I was taught to kick against a wall and my kick is really bad as I never had the chance of measuring the effect and it developed into an energy consuming with minimal results effort to the extent that I don't kick anymore. Lately I've been using fins to develop muscle memory and to be able to distinguish the effect of any changes I make to my technique and it has somehow helped in slightly improving my lousy kick.... All this is the effect of learning at a young age to kick against a wall.
Any time! Check out our special swimming bonus at swimtechnique[dot]tv/bonus and you'll find a lot great info including video articles that will help you with your swimming. Best of luck!
This is "showing" not teaching how we can kick more efficiently.
Thank you for your feedback. We truly appreciate it! However, our intention with this channel is not teaching people but rather introduce our services. People who would like to learn how to swim or improve their skills work directly with us at the pool. Let's agree, it would be naive to learn swimming by just watching a video. If you want to learn (including kicking), you actually have to visit the pool.
SwimTechnique TV I would disagree, I have taught myself to swim from videos. I do need to improve, but your video title is misleading from your intended statement.
Raul T Congratulations!!! Now you know how to swim!
forget about kicking, you can learn complete swimming by watching videos. If video tells step by step how to do it rather than what to do. Also if i am from other country, how can i join your swimming academy ? Post this kind of videos in local websites, not on youtube which is global.
FirstName LastName showing is teaching you moron. What did you learn from sports?