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Today we're going to talk about breaststroke kick and variations in the width of the kick and the draw of the kick. So there's going to be four different variations of kicks that you can watch out for. And I'm going to define them by by their width, basically. And it's wide, wide, wide, narrow, narrow, narrow, and narrow, wide. And then I'm going to show you what I'm teaching a certain number of athletes right now, and how we teach it. So always thinking about the resistance that you create and the propulsion that you create, and what is the benefit or what is the end result between those two. So here we go, we're going to start with wide wide, which I bet you already know what's going to happen.

So I honestly have no idea how I did. But I tried to exaggerate as much as possible. So the preferred one as far as what we've been working on, is what we call narrow wide. We saw it really definitively at the Olympics this summer. And the idea is you recover the legs behind you in the flow of the water that you're you're drawing water with you. When the legs go back, they have to get outside. And I think that we've been focusing so much on narrow, narrow, and you know, keeping it very small both up and back, that we're missing some grab. Some swimmers aren't getting their feet outside of that into the Stillwater. So the way I've been teaching it is with a poor boy. Now you only get one. So what happens is you have to draw the poor boy up, and when you kick the kick, you kick the legs out to get it outside the shadow of the body and the poor boy falls out and you try to replicate that and so you do it again and again and again thinking about narrow up and wide back. And so this is something we've been doing quite frequently and got to come up with a contraption that you can do over and over and over again. But right now it's you get one.

The idea is that you have something physical to hold. You're hanging on to it. You're trying to memorize that feeling of what it's like to squeeze it together. And then when you kick the feet or going outside and grabbing that Stillwater I felt it with the poor boy. And then it took me like two or three times to really feel it and then really on my last stroke, I felt it really well. That there's this huge variation between the draw and then the kick. But it felt good. Give it a try.

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Breaststroke - Kick Width