Skills Development

Kicking Kicks - Key Elements of Improving your Kick in Swimming

The role of kicking in swimming is a matter for study, research, debate and discussion but one thing we do know. Better kicking = better swimming.

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Kicking Individual Challenge Killer Sets - KICKS

Yes, I know. Kicking is about as much fun as watching 30 hours of cake decorating on television, right?

Wrong.

The reason most people find kicking dull and boring is they don’t see kick sets as a challenge. Kicking is often put into a training program to fill in space or to recover between swimming sets. Because of this, swimmers don’t see kick as the critical element of swimming performance that it is.

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Building the Perfect Swimmer (or DIY Genetic Engineering)

With all the talk about cloning, stem cells, genetic engineering, genetically modified food and computer generated medical technology, the question arises: Can you build the perfect swimmer?

Let’s pretend we could get into a scientific laboratory and build the perfect swimmer. Just think of the possibilities.

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