Stupid question - practicing scuba frog kick alone

[Marie13]

Apnea means free diving, indeed it’s broken English this is not the word a mother tongue speaker would use

Ah! Thanks for explaining. Apnea in English refers often to sleep apnea, a serious medical condition.

 

[The Chairman]

indeed it’s broken English

Broken English? No. It's a Latin derivative: "a"- without & "pnea"- breath (or breathing). It refers to the breath holding techniques of free divers.

Sleep apnea refers to the cessation of breathing whilst sleeping. This was John Candy's cause of death.

 

[stepfen]

Yes, float on your back to do the kick correctly without actually diving. No mask or snorkel needed either. You are trying to clap the bottoms of your feet together and should feel pressure on the bottoms of your toe tips if you're doing it correctly.

I have difficulties imagining/visualising this. Any chance of having a video showing this???

 

[The Chairman]

Next time I'm at one of the many, many springs nearby, I'll get someone to take a video topside and in the water.

I have difficulties imagining/visualising this. Any chance of having a video showing this???

 

[АлександрД]

You would like to have nice or effective frog kick?
In case of effective - you can use very simple way. (with scuba or holding breath)

Put one (or two, when you be more powered in propulsion) finger on the pools wall (underwater)
Start to make frog kick.
You will start to feel force on your finger. As more big this force - as more efficient your fins stroke.
THAN when you turning back your fins into initial position.... As less your finger will turn away from the wall - as more efficient your back (return) stroke.

This measure can easy estimate your frog kick efficiency.

 

[Marie13]

You would like to have nice or effective frog kick?
In case of effective - you can use very simple way. (with scuba or holding breath)

The OP has a rather nice collection of snorkels. Why hold your breath when you can use a snorkel?

I practice kicks this way holding on to the pool wall.

 

[АлександрД]

The OP has a rather nice collection of snorkels. Why hold your breath when you can use a snorkel?
I practice kicks this way holding on to the pool wall.

When you use snorkel - you can get two bad things:
in one case - you can slap by fins over water surface.
Other - you can get bad practice to lower your fins. But for the frog kick it is more correct to hold your fins above line of your body.

You can hold, why not. E.g. my friend use that device, when he teach students for neutral bouyoancy

But when you just touch the wall - it is more difficult and sensitive.

 

[Magnus Lundstedt]

Ah! Thanks for explaining. Apnea in English refers often to sleep apnea, a serious medical condition.

Apnea is when you not breathing, sleep apnea is when you stop breathing in periods of your sleep, apnea diving is breath holding diving aka freediving.

 

[Sbiriguda]

I will bump this thread because I found a video of frog kick very well executed
Note that the diver has no bcd...