Well, I've been swimming for about a year now and I'm not too bad at it, except for not being able to kick hard and fast. I can do a 50 in about 27sec., but that's without being able to kick fast, my arms do all the work. I've been looking online and asking my coach about the problem and everyone is telling me the same advice: hips up, butt out of water, and legs straight.

Dear all I am preparing my first IM distance in France in June and has 2 initial doubts on swimming: 1: # Strokes / breath

Here is one of the most inefficient things taught or not focused on when learning to swim. When coaching I usually watch some of the swim lessons going on. Here is what I hear and see…”Kick, kick, kick, kick”. That’s all is said. In reality you don’t want to just kick like kicking a soccer ball (without any other kicking reference what do we know otherwise?).