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Swimisodes - Freestyle Kicking Sets Part One

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Improving your freestyle kicking technique will virtually guarantee that you will swim freestyle faster and there is no better way to accomplish this than to incorporate creative freestyle kicking sets into your swim training program. The speed of the freestyle kick is the baseline speed for your freestyle. The higher the baseline speed (kick speed), the faster you will swim, after adding your pulling motion and body rotation.
Some swimmers and coaches consider that the up kick of the freestyle kick is a recovery phase. This can be due to a lack of creative freestyle kicking sets. At The Race Club, we consider that both the up kick and the down kick are very important and both kicks need to be worked hard. Neither should be thought of as a recovery. In this Race Club Swimisode, World Class freestyler, Zach Hayden, demonstrates how to kick with the correct body position, using snorkel and alignment board, and a tough exercise we use to develop a faster freestyle kick, working the legs in both directions.
The technique of finding the best articulation (bend) of the ankle, knee and hip are also extremely important in developing propulsion, without causing too much frontal drag. Fast freestyle kicking is an art form, requiring strength and flexibility. We hope that this Swimisode will help you improve your freestyle kicking technique and give you some ideas for freestyle kicking sets.
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Director/Editor: Richard Hall
Producer: The Race Club
Writer/Narrator: Gary Hall Sr
Cinematographer: Frazier Nivens
Live Sound: Gustavo Moller
Jib Operator: Mikey Montoya (Jib and Co)
Underwater Housing: AquaVideo
Filmed at our training facility Founders Park Islamorada, FL MM87
Category
Swimming
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