I quit using a kick board years ago, and tool to using the snorkel. Then on another channel, the guy suggested using the kick board for the breathing stroke on the fly. The reasoning was that with the breathing stroke, you can't engage the core the same way you do on underwater or regular fly. To compensate for this, pretty much every fly swimmer lifts their heels slightly out of the water on the breathing stroke. That actually makes some sense. One other thing, feet and fins. The optimal foot position for dolphin and flutter kick is slightly toed in, and ankles rolled over. The propulsion in these 2 kicks comes from the side of the foot and not the toes. Our feet are very 3D, and not at all flat like frog feet. For fins, the only ergonomically correct fins that promote proper foot position are the Positive Drive Fins (PDFs) from Finis. The traditional frog feet make you point your toes out straight out behind you. The PDFs have a lot of fin on the little toe side, and very little fin on the big toe side. After figuring out that the gymnastic toe point didn't work, and going pigeon toed worked better, it cut my time in half for a length of the pool on my kicking laps. For those of us who have stiff ankles, the side benefit of going pigeon toed gives us another 10 to 20 degrees of toe point. I never could swim breast stroke without using a scissor kick. My feet will not stretch/point out to the sides at all for that kick...
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I quit using a kick board years ago, and tool to using the snorkel. Then on another channel, the guy suggested using the kick board for the breathing stroke on the fly. The reasoning was that with the breathing stroke, you can't engage the core the same way you do on underwater or regular fly. To compensate for this, pretty much every fly swimmer lifts their heels slightly out of the water on the breathing stroke. That actually makes some sense.
One other thing, feet and fins. The optimal foot position for dolphin and flutter kick is slightly toed in, and ankles rolled over. The propulsion in these 2 kicks comes from the side of the foot and not the toes. Our feet are very 3D, and not at all flat like frog feet. For fins, the only ergonomically correct fins that promote proper foot position are the Positive Drive Fins (PDFs) from Finis. The traditional frog feet make you point your toes out straight out behind you. The PDFs have a lot of fin on the little toe side, and very little fin on the big toe side. After figuring out that the gymnastic toe point didn't work, and going pigeon toed worked better, it cut my time in half for a length of the pool on my kicking laps. For those of us who have stiff ankles, the side benefit of going pigeon toed gives us another 10 to 20 degrees of toe point. I never could swim breast stroke without using a scissor kick. My feet will not stretch/point out to the sides at all for that kick...
Thank you! This explains some!
Seems so complicated 😂 thanks for the video. Very clear and informative!
Love it❤
underwater dolphin kick with fins is addictive
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Which fins do you recommend for beginner swimmer
Fins with short blade. Don’t get the plastic ones
@@danswimnyc can you recommend some online please
in russia dolphin kick you 😂
You got it wrong my friend. In Russia life kicks you in the face.
If you don’t know how to dolphin kick the proper way
Looking amazing in those speedos Dan! 😉😍🍑🍑🔥
Maybe I should expend to a different platform like only fans 🐸
@@danswimnyc ahahaha well you would have your first subscriber for it already 😉🤣😜🍑🍑🍑🔥