bjorn wrote:
Well, seems to me that applying a downward force with your legs and feet is the easiest way to keep them up high. If that isn't enough, as stated before, just look at what happens to 99% of swimmers body position when you tie their feet together very tightly. I'm honestly at loss for how people can say the kick doesn't help with body position. Propulsion etc is a different discussion.I think the point trying to made is that if you learn to not depend on kick for leg position, you can let that kick energy translate to proplusion.
With beginner/noob swimmers, they spend huge amounts of energy using a kick to keep their legs up when in reality they should be conserving that energy and learning a better non-kick horizontal body position to conserve that energy.
Same principle at work, but less dramatic as you get better at swimming.