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Any tips on learning egg-beater kick for Open Water feeding?

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Posted Oct 05, 2009 10:04PM

Hey all,
I've been doing a lot of Open Water for the past 4 years and have got a lot of experience. (I wasn't a swimmer before then). But there are no other Master's swimmers or open water swimmers with my level of experience in my area and I'm signed up for a Channel solo next year. So my question: any tips or pointers to (good) videos on learning the water-polo egg-beater kick to reduce effort on the feeding breaks? It hasn't been a problem to now with swims only up to about 4 or 5 hours.
Standard flutter threading water is too much effort since I expect feed stops every 30 minutes. (One small problem is my local public pool is very shallow, only 5ft deep, not sure how that will affect learning it?)

Thanks for any tips.
Posted Dec 08, 2009 11:40PM

Maybe you already had your event? In any case, egg-beater kick is breast stroke kick one leg at a time. It is fairly simple Right leg rotates in a circle counter clock-wise and left leg rotates in a circle clock-wise. They alternate turns. The part of the kick that really pushes you up is when your leg (either one) is in front of you on the rotation and pushes in to the middle. Another big help will be your breathing. You will obviously float better when your lungs are full of air. Try to coincide your full lungs with the weak spots in your egg-beater. That's pretty much it.


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