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many of us on this thread can scull sideways, we can all do 0 radius flat turns, and with good technique you can in fact go backwards faster barefoot than with hands. Your references to these animals don't work because they are designed differently. Seals, penguins etc have large front fins, so of course they use them. If you put fins on your hands, it would be a different discussion. Moving 10cm with your fins is not difficult, you don't kick, you scull. If you're fins are touching something, then you can touch the wall and push off of it, we are ok with that, pushing water with your hands is not necessary and is only bandaiding the root problem of not knowing how to kick properly