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Knees is the answer – full stop.
Why?
It starts with the phrase every coach on earth has said, but never explained, leaving us thinking “you didnt explain sh*t” lol
We remember those talks.
The core isn’t just your abs.
It’s your glutes, your low back, and your hamstrings. When you “engage your core” you pull your body into a “hips forward” feeling-alignment using your posterior chain.
You cant keep your core engaged ANDDDDDDD…. Disengage your hips to move forward and backward to generate propulsion.
Instead, the down kick driven from the knees creates a slight counter movement from the hips, to keep the down kick momentum from spreading the legs like scissors – this LOOKS like kicking from the hips.
The counter movement keeps the kick tight, and garuntees that the kick forces push through the engaged core and push the body forward instead of a hip kick simply pushing water backward.
If you want to learn to push yourself forward down the pool instead of pushing water backward, comment “knees”.
02/09/2023
Motor Skills 🤔
When helping athletes develop crucial components of their sport (like underwater dolphin kicks for swimmers) it can be beneficial to break things down to specific motor skills.
When looking at the first 2 images in this post, we can see the swimmer kicking “up”.
The problem with telling a young swimmer to kick “up” is that they might not be able to associate the idea of kicking “up” with the motor skills that correctly correspond with our desired outcome.
Now we have to figure out what actually needs to be communicated.
In this particular case, it’s kicking “in front of your body”, not “up”.
And as you can see from the 3rd image - sometimes to figure out what’s going on, all you have to do is turn the screen.
So when you’re coming up with drills to develop proper motor skills, a change in perspective can be the missing piece.
Comment below what your favorite weird or creative drills are that you use with your athletes.
And if you want to save yourself the time in the workshop developing these drills, click the link in our bio to fast track your success.
Backstroke Speed Breakout 🚀
As we are dolphin kicking off the wall, we are naturally going to approach the surface at an upward angle. ↗️
For the Speed Breakout, you want to level out and be parallel with the surface of the water. ➡️
The first ☝️ pull we take is for speed and because we are parallel to the surface of the water, we will shoot forward.
The second ✌️ pull we take is to lift the entire body to the surface of the water to continue the stroke.
Check out the video above for more info!
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