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Our team has some money to buy some equipment. I have been looking at some fins. The fins I have looked at are
I have no idea what of these are good. Currently we have just these fins - http://www.swimoutlet.com/product_p/23059.htm I really do not like these fins. So I am not sure what I should buy for the whole team. Our team ranges from 5 year olds to 17 year old AA swimmers - only about 40 kids - so it is quite a range and we are all in the water at the same time. overall using power points, our team is really good at 50 and 100 free. - pretty good at backstroke - not very good at breast stroke. I would say their kick off the walls are not great. and yesterday I did a kick set of 10X50 on the 1:10 with about 15 kids that are 11+ most of them A swimmers and only 1 made the interval (she made it easily) - we are really not a good kicking team. A lot of my focus on this season is to get them kicking better in every stroke and off the walls. Right now since I hate the fins we have, we are doing all the kicking no fins. thanks for any help or advice
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Question back, Scott. When they have kicked in the past, has it always been with fins? Or have they just never done kick sets? I took fins off my swimmers when I first started because they had become over reliant on them. My predecessor had routinely done kick sets with fins and the swimmers just kicked slower! I prefer a shorter bladed fin anyway and now we use fins only when I want them really moving quickly to make tight turn rounds, in the main. We do a lot of kick work off the wall. |
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Well I am just starting 4th year - many of my swimmers were here before me. I am not sure what they did before me. A lot of my swimmers were 10-12 when I took over and had been swimming for several years. I normally do a kick set like 10X50 on 1:15 - many just do not make it. I know I should probably kick more then 500 yds if doing 2500-3000. that is something i am working on fixing. Up to this point in my coaching them has been things like getting your head down. swimming back stroke with bent elbow, etc. the basics and breaking bad habits. So part of getting fins is that I want just more variety. I want to kick closer to 1000-1200 a day. I would consider a lot of the older kids - 13-17 "discouraged kickers" - they are so used to being bad kickers that I do not feel they give 100%... thus they do not improve. I do know with some of my older boys - ankle flexibility is an issue - I do know some fins will help with that as well. |
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