![]() ![]() Talk to your pupil the whole time about how their feet feel. As they continuously repeat the motion, sit behind them on the wall and grab their feet, ensuring their feet are pointed outwards like we demonstrated before this drill. Have the swimmer bend and straighten their legs, as though they were gearing up to whip their legs around. It’s going to appear similar to the third stage pictured above, but with a wall edge in front of their calves. Have them lay on their tummy, head facing away from the wall, and help them hook their feet on the edge of the pool. Have the swimmer hold a kick board superman style (two hands out in front, gripping the top), with their chest slightly resting on top. ![]() Move right into the first drill before the swimmer has a chance to forget what you’ve (hopefully) bore into their brain with those awesome key words. This is vital for making the swimmer understand the position of their feet,and will help them get the most power from their kick. As in the photo below, you can see how the feet are not only flexed, but when the ankles are touching, the toes are turned out from each other. In breastroke, the only time your swimmer should point their toes is when their legs are straight out behind them, otherwise the push of water comes from using the inside of your foot, and therefore they have to be flat. Tell them to bend their feet up towards their head as they would in breastroke, and show your pupil what flexed feet look like. Have a swimmer (that’s not your pupil) lay on a kick board on the pool deck, tummy down. Always begin correcting breastroke (or teaching it form scratch) with a demo. We, as instructors, want them to be conscientious about where they place their arms, what direction their feet turn when it’s all about making them think as they’re swimming, because if they’re left to do it naturally, they’ll do it wrong. It’s very important -throughout the entire set- for a swimmer to be able to visualize their stroke in their head. I learned these techniques mixed with some choice phrases were key -and am now waiting on our club to lose its (previously well deserved) breastroke reputation.Įnjoy this progressive set which works up from feet, knees, power, and timing. What I also found (after the first day of experimenting drills) was that most of these problems were solved quite easily, all using the same technique but modified slightly based on how quickly the swimmer picked it up. What I found was a variety of problems -scissor kick, frog kick, hips sink, too wide, too narrow, pointed toes- the list went on. Within our club, we’re infamous for really awful breastroke, so I thought I’d try to tackle some of the root problems and try my hand at correcting them. Just last week I was running a breastroke clinic with the mini swimmers of our local swim club, and was really focusing on kick.
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