How to Practice Your Breaststroke Kicking?
It is not a dream to swim better and faster if you practice leg
skills of breaststroke. Let's put on our
swimsuits to practice.
People who have swam
breaststroke should know that leg movements are an important factor in keeping body balance and pushing body forward in breaststroke. However, many beginners always have difficulty in mastering leg motions because they have no systematic study, which leads to poor and slow swimming in breaststroke. In this issue, we will take you to understand the practice of breaststroke leg skills, helping swimmers bid farewell to wrong motions and swim better and faster.
1. Practice on the frog leg when holding the shore faceup.
Motions tips: Grasp the bank side of the swimming pool with your backhand. Let your body float on your back, and then practice according to the continuous action tips of frog legs.
2. Frog leg practices with nose down when holding the bank side
Motions tips: float on the bank side of the swimming pool; hold up your body with your hands; keep your head above the water; float on the water with your legs together; then practice according to the continuous action tips of frog legs.
3. Frog leg practices with kickboards
Motion tips: Just like holding a kickboard to do the starting action of pedaling on the wall, after pedaling, float for a while, and then do the exercises as per continuous motions of frog legs.
As we all know, the main driving force of the breaststroke comes from the
leg's kicking and grabbing water. Correct kicking method of the breaststroke leg is not backward pedal, nor is it straight legs that grab water. It is a combination of two actions: kicking the water with the inner leg and foot plate, pushing the water like whipping the leg, which is really difficult to complete. However, as long as you practice more with the help of your swimming instructor to correct wrong gestures, you will soon find the feeling of pedaling and grabbing the water.
The correct breaststroke leg movements can be roughly divided into five parts:
- Slowly close the legs.
- Knees with shoulder width apart
- Evert the kickboard.
- Kick and grab the water backwards.
- Draw back legs parallel together.
It should be noted that when practicing
breaststroke kicking, swimmers can float on the edge of the pool first. Then keep their heads above the water surface and straighten their legs together to relax and float on the water surface. When the legs are drawn back together, the calves are slowly closed to the center, and the knees are separated at the same time, about shoulder width. Like hoes, two feet hook up, forward and outward. Two feet plates and legs face outward, and draw a semicircle forward. If you practice more according to skills, and persevere in it, your progress in breaststroke motions will be obvious!