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Because regular foot fins are on your feet, they sink your knees down too far in the water when you swim. They also make you bend your knees too much. You can feel your knees dragging through the water. So they don’t give you a better kick. Instead, foot flippers force you to do a different kick to good swimming without fins.
Good squad swimmers keep their knees much higher and straighter, and they swim a lot faster. However, you see many swimmers at the pool who kick with low, bent knees. So their kick feels inefficient and lacking in power. This is a common problem for swimmers, even without fins. But foot flippers make it worse.
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Your body remembers your higher knees, straighter knees and better kick, even after you take off your shinfin
Now you can have fins for extra speed and have higher knees, straighter knees and a better kick!
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Because regular foot fins are on your feet, they slope your thighs down in the water when you swim. You feel the extra drag from the water pushing against your sloping thighs. This thigh drag wastes your energy. So foot flippers don’t help to lift your thighs to streamline your kick. Quite the opposite. Foot flippers sink your thighs and work with different kick to good swimming without fins.
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Many swimmers know they should have their thighs horizontal. But still their thighs keep sloping down when they kick. Wearing shinfin
It helps if you already have enough hip joint movement range to straighten your thighs, at least in line with your upper body. If not, then doing stretches on land can help to increase your range of hip joint movement. Swimming with shinfin
Now you can have fins for extra speed and have your thighs horizontal for streamlined swimming!
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Because regular foot fins are on your feet, they sink your hips down in the water when you swim. You can feel your chest dragging through the water. Foot flippers also make you bend your hips too much. This slopes your thighs down in the water and increases thigh drag. So they don’t help to improve kick technique. Worse, foot flippers reinforce a different kick to good swimming without fins.
Good squad swimmers have higher hips, kick with straighter hips and swim fast. However, you see many swimmers at the pool who kick with hips too low in the water and who bend their hips too much when they kick. Their legs slope down in the water, increasing drag. So their kick doesn’t feel so good and is low in power. This is a common problem which gets worse with foot flippers.
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Your body remembers your higher hips, straighter hips and improved kick, even after you take off your shinfin
Now you can have fins for extra speed and have higher hips, straighter hips and improve kick technique!
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Our bodies are all different shapes. But when you look at swimmers in the pool, people with all sorts of different body shapes still look streamlined if they are swimming well. Whatever their body shape, if they are not swimming well then they do not look streamlined in the water. This means we can all improve our body streamlining to swim faster, regardless of our body shape.
Because regular foot fins are on your feet, they sink your whole body down too far in the water. They sink your hips and slope your thighs down. They also make you bend your knees too much. You can feel the extra drag on the front of your body and thighs. So foot flippers don’t streamline your whole body.
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It is a chain reaction, triggered by shinfin
Now you can have fins to swim faster and streamline your whole body!
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Because regular foot fins are on your feet, when you swim with them you can feel the thrust pulsing during each kick. The forces build up towards the end of each down kick. You can hear the changing sound as the water surges past your ears. So foot flippers give you a fluctuating thrust throughout your kick. Many swimmers find it difficult to get a smooth thrust from their kick, even without fins. But foot flippers make this problem even worse, increasing the surging of the propulsion. They do not give continuous thrust throughout each kick, as is needed for best body streamlining and stroke efficiency. So foot flippers alter your whole stroke.
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Now you can have fins for extra propulsion and have a streamlined thrust throughout kick!
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