An train to enhance your really feel for the water appropriate for all ages.
All the pieces difficult about being within the water will be summed up within the numerous elements of the butterfly leg kick. The leg kick will be carried out at a lot of completely different angles. You could ensure that your physique is well-balanced, you want a secure core and the flexibility to sense the place you might be in “the water”.
The intention of this drill is to be taught to benefit from each angle of the leg kick beneath the water. Generally a swimmer might not be completely aligned after pushing off (from each the beginning block and finish of the pool) and with the ability to deal with this example may recommend there isn’t a must waste time whereas performing the underwater section.
Step one in studying this system is to start to get a really feel for the place you might be within the water. So, when pushing off the tip of the pool in the course of the underwater section, rotate your physique absolutely (via 360°) utilizing solely the preliminary thrust off the wall coming out of your legs. After pushing off the wall, you will need to not transfer your legs. Bear in mind to maintain your physique as relaxed as doable and in a glide place together with your toes and arms absolutely prolonged.
Having learnt the motion, you possibly can transfer on to the following step.
Ranging from the place referred to above, instantly after pushing off and gliding for just a few seconds, change the aspect on which you might be working. So, you’ll carry out two butterfly leg kicks going through forwards (abdomen going through downwards), two butterfly leg kicks in your left aspect, two butterfly leg kicks in your proper aspect and two butterfly leg kicks in your again (abdomen going through upwards) earlier than returning to your beginning place. Do not forget that your complete drill have to be carried out utilizing solely your legs and sustaining full management over your physique.
Now you can transfer on to the ultimate step of the frill.
Sporting fins, prolong your arms out in entrance of you and loosen up your shoulders. Take a deep breath and kick off the wall and start to glide abdomen going through downwards trying on the backside of the pool with out shifting your arms in any respect. At this level, start your leg kick and alter the angle of your kick after every repetition, on the identical time rotating your physique. Carry on kicking underwater till you might be again within the beginning place.
The intention of this drill is to get a greater really feel for the assorted actions concerned within the butterfly leg kick, studying how one can change place within the water with out utilizing your higher physique. Consideration should concentrate on each your head and the route through which you’re looking, which ought to assist direct your physique via the water, and in addition the velocity and price of your leg kick, which ought to help you kick at as many alternative angles as doable within the area of 25 metres.
The fantastic thing about this drill is that it’s supreme for everyone and will be carried out by any group of swimmers, from the very youngest to masters swimmers.
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