Breaststroke Kick: Learn How To Swim 101 - the Leg Action
This is the hard part because you are teaching your legs to do something that they have not been doing till now. So we are going to teach the action separately from the arm action and put it all together later.
Often called the frog leg kick because of it's resemblance, some would say, of the way frogs kick, the best way to learn this kick is on your back with a kick board. Please make sure you do learn this with a kick board because you are not allowed to do flutter kick at all in breast stroke. A flutter kick (another term for the standard kick you do when you are doing freestyle and back stroke) even of the slightest, will get you disqualified in a competition.
Don't Plan On Competing?
"But I never plan on doing competition" you say. I've heard that before from some who are now very good competitors so you never know. And even if you don't compete isn't it better to do things the right way. Who knows you may become a swimming instructor one day and you wouldn't want to teach what you can't do because you didn't practice would you, (trust me I've seen some really bad teachers).Apart from that the frog kick is a very useful stroke if you ever need to rescue someone.
The picture below is a good example of how you should practice your frog kick with a kick board on your back:
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Breaststroke Kick On Back With Kickboard |
The leg action it's self is: Bend your knees, open your legs and push.
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Breaststroke Kick (Frog Kick) From The Side |
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Breaststroke Kick (Frog Kick) From Above |
You Don't Have To Spread Your Legs Wide
You don't have to spread you legs as wide as the picture for it to be and effective kick but this will give you the idea of what to practice.Once you are feeling confident with this action, get someone else to look at if you have any doubt, it's time to start to put it into action.
Starting with a torpedo position, push off and move your legs with the action you have been practicing. Like this:
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Young Girl Doing Breaststroke Kick In Glide Phase |
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Glide Position After Kick |
Practice this for a while and next time we'll put your breaststroke all together
Enjoy
Richard
Richard
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