﻿{"id":313143,"date":"2018-06-10T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=313143"},"modified":"2018-06-08T12:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:35:41","slug":"finis-tip-of-the-week-the-fifth-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/finis-tip-of-the-week-the-fifth-stroke\/","title":{"rendered":"FINIS Tip Of The Week: The Fifth Stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome to the \u201cFINIS Tip of the Week.\u201d Swimming World will be bringing you a topic that we\u2019ll explore with drills and concepts for you to implement with your team on a regular basis. While certain weeks may be more appropriate for specific levels of swimming (club, high school, college, or masters), each tip is meant to be flexible for your needs and inclusive for all levels of swimming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The tip for this week focuses on developing the ever important \u201cfifth stroke\u201d: underwater dolphin kick! Underwater kicking has evolved to become an essential part of almost any race, short course or long course, and has become one more skill that every swimmer should be working on each day in practice. The tips presented here are ways to refine your underwater dolphin kick and are considerations to keep in mind when applying this skill to your race plan. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Maintain Kick Tempo Through Breakout&#8230;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You want to be maintaining your kick tempo through your breakout so that you are carrying speed through your first stroke. Think about decreasing the amplitude of your kick as you approach the surface so that your kicks are smaller but still at the same tempo, which should help you focus on accelerating through your breakout stroke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A great way to play with this is to grab a tempo trainer (an ideal kick tempo is around .4) and play around with holding a certain number of kicks off of the walls on short rest. For example, a set of 20 x 25\u2019s with 8 fast dolphin kicks at .4 tempo on :30. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Stable Hips And Core&#8230;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While dolphin kicking undeniably involves some degree of whole body undulation, the main propulsion from the dolphin kick ultimately comes from the downward snap of your legs. In order to set up for a powerful down kick, your core needs to be engaged and your hips need to be controlled to provide a stable base for your dolphin kick. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More up and down movement in your hips does not mean you will have a bigger or stronger kick. Rather, think of locking the core in and driving the hips forward with each down kick to get set yourself up to maintain a fast tempo with a focus on what is actually going to propel you through the water.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Know Your Strengths&#8230;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While underwater kicking is so important now in swimming, that doesn\u2019t mean that every person should be going the full 15 meters off of every wall. What is best for one swimmer is not going to be best for another, and figuring out what is going to be best largely requires you to play to each person\u2019s individual strengths. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whether they are taking 12 dolphin kicks off the walls or just 3 dolphin kicks off the wall, every swimmer in your program can benefit from having a plan for their dolphin kicks in a race and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">practicing <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">them every day. Just like turns and breakouts, there are literally hundreds of opportunities every day to work on improving your underwater kicks. 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