I could have sworn freestyle swimming styles looked different in Olympics in the ‘90s. It looks like now freestyle is mostly upper body with fewer kicks. Why is this? Why the change?
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I was a pretty good sprint swimmer in highschool. I only swam freestyle and 200y or shorter. I was climbing a horizontal ladder in the water (figuratively) and that made me very quick. But I had a cross-kick, where every time my body rotated, I’d kick twice, my legs would cross at the ankles once.
In practice though, all of the “kicking only” drills I was almost the slowest. It’s more about keeping the body in position for the least amount of drag possible imo.
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