How To Swim Kick Drills Video

Kick drills are important in swimming because they improve technique and build strength. There are unique kick drills for each of the swimming strokes. Get expert tips and advice in this swimming video.

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Kick board drill
Side kick freestyle drill
Dolphin kick butterfly drill

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Phillip Toriello has 16 years of competitive swimming experience. 12 of those years he has been teaching and organizing swim events for swimmers of all levels and ages. He is has competed in all four strokes, and their corresponding events. Though his favorite race, is the individual medley. Phillip is the Aquatic Director at the high end Avila Bay Athletic Club.

PHILIP TORIELLO: Hi. This is Philip Toriello and this is how to swim kick drills. Swimming kick drills really helps you to focus on you kick. The first and most popular type of drill with your kick for any of those four strokes includes those with a kickboard, basically isolating your arms, keeping your arms on top of the water, and going through your kick. Other stroke techniques or drill techniques that you can use for kicking include one arm out on the front, one arm on your hip, side kick freestyle drills that kind of do the same thing and also really focus on that balance in the water. Another one includes the two kicks, one breath technique in the breaststroke. Basically what you'll be doing is keeping your arm isolated out in the front, doing a simple pop-up breath whenever you come up to take your breath and it's two kicks, two swift kicks underwater with a glide following each kick and then a pop-up breath. Two kicks, pop-up breath; this really works on your ability to get your body nice and tight and streamlined through the water and focusing on that glide, in particular that snap and how much power is coming out of each kick. The same thing kind of applies with your dolphin kick; while you can use the kick board, it's highly advised that you don't as far as your butterfly kick drills are concerned. You really want to either keep your hands out in front so your body is following your hands, again creating that wave like motion from your nose all the way down to your toes or you can keep your hands by your side so you really actually concentrating on just this portion and not the tips of your hands. You can also perform the dolphin kick on your side, again, with one arm in front, kind of help keep your balance and one arm on your hip, flipping sides to kind of work on the different angles.

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