Need a Crossover kick video

Triathlon Forum
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I’m looking for a video of someone that does a crossover kick. I have a friend that says he does one and wants me to help him out.

I don’t know exactly what the crossover kick is, I think I know but would like to see a video of someone doing it.

It looks like Katie Ledecky does is sometimes in her 800 free here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHbNKX3VkIM

Is that what it looks like?

jaretj

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Maybe what the guy in the third video here http://www.swimtypes.com/arnie.html does? They call it “scissor kicking”, but it is a) caused by cross-overs at the front of the stroke and b) the legs DO cross when watched from above.

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Thanks so much but that’s not what the kick is described to me as. Perhaps I’m using the wrong term.

It’s described to me as a two beat kick with an extra 2 short beats between them as a person finishes their pull.

jaretj

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I call that a 4 beat kick.

You do one half as if you were doing a 6 beat kick, and the other half as if you were doing a 2 beat kick. Pretty common.

No, I don’t have vidos.

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Thanks, that is what I was visualizing.

jaretj