There was a very turbulent phase in breaststroke technique from 1936 until 1956 (and some other turbulent stuff going on) between the Berlin and Melbourne Olympics. This change was not popular with everyone, and the kick was considered illegal. This evolved into changing the kick as well and subsequently single kick into two kicks per arm cycle. Armbruster theorised that an over arm recovery might be a faster way to swim breaststroke. In the 1930s, an innovative swimmer (Jack Sieg) and his coach (David Armbruster) changed breaststroke into what became Butterfly. To understand Butterfly it is important to understand how it evolved.
Two kicks happen during butterfly: one on the top of the sine wave and one on the bottom. This is also the same thing that happens using a kick board. If you watch a swimmer perform dolphin kick on their front, with arms at their sides, at the surface, you will see the head is always on the down phase of the dolphin kick. ‘ Press the T’ Bill Boomer always told me). If you took your imaginary eraser and erased a swimmers arms, you would note: on the downward kick the head is up and on the next downward kick the head is down (or front of body is down, the head may not be lowest point. Rarely swimmers kick only once per cycle like Laszlo Cseh of Hungary. If you watch someone swimming Butterfly you will know that a good flier kicks twice per arm rotation. Indeed, you likely do do dolphin kick but is that exactly the same as in a Butterfly stroke? Nope.
STYLE KICK WITH BOARD FULL
Kornelia Ender in 1976 Montreal Olympics on the cover of my thoroughly read SWIM Canada magazine.Īnd so, after that blethering intro, why don’t coaches have their swimmers train butterfly kick exactly the same way as it is swum in full stroke Butterfly?īaloney, you say! We train dolphin kick all the time.
Also for example Biondi-drill is a drill that teaches poor timing and incorrect wave-style as well as incorrect arm recovery position (sorry Nort Thornton). For example, head-up breaststroke can speed up tempo but a head-up style isn’t as fast as a wave style. Many drills have both good and bad affects. So basically what you do, you get better at.
In the specialised area of developing drills, it takes a creative insight because there must be a cause-effect underpinning. If there are parts of the stroke that are strong, it means assisting part of the stroke to get stronger. To assist a swimmer to get faster, it might mean decreasing resistance, it might mean improving balance both front/back and left/right and also sometimes means developing drills that help correct a ‘stuck-in’ ineffective style. It never surprises me to discover new things even after spending my life either in a pool or beside a pool since 1970.
STYLE KICK WITH BOARD HOW TO
In my strange swimming world I get to help loads of swimmers to learn how to get faster in a one-to-one capacity in an Endless Pool.
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