Your 9s comes out to 9,999,999,999 out of 10,000,000,000 of swimmers share the same definition of flutter and scissor kicking. Wibble's definition is odd, but not quite that odd.
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Getting back on track, is it a fair summary that one or more people would like to see multiple finning techniques?
I personally believe in frog and the non GUE definition of flutter kicks to be taught in open water. All the kicks covered in fundies belong in a <insert agency name> buoyancy course (though finning isn't about buoyancy).
I personally believe in frog and the non GUE definition of flutter kicks to be taught in open water. All the kicks covered in fundies belong in a <insert agency name> buoyancy course (though finning isn't about buoyancy).
Again, you are talking about the flutter kick. You don't use a scissors kick in the Australian or American crawl (aka front crawl, aka freestyle).
For anyone interested in the history of competitive swimming strokes, there was a short period where the sidestroke developed into something like a modern crawl arm stroke with a scissors kick. But it was called the trudgen after its inventor, not the crawl. It was popular in freestyle competitions from the 1880s until a new stroke was introduced to the world by Australian Richard Cavill winning the 1902 International Championship. This new stroke, eventually named the "Australian crawl", used the arm motion of the trudgen with a 2 beat flutter kick instead of the scissors kick. The "American crawl" was a later derivation that uses a 6 beat kick, mostly for sprint events.
Could (should?) be called the "Core Diving Skills" course to include all three: buoyancy, trim and finning.
Leave out the scissor kick then
Joking aside, the real challenge is that you cannot "learn" core skills in a single short course; you have to "earn" the skills with plenty of practice. But... once you've invested that time and effort, everything's so much easier.
Never understood why students can't take a course and then "pay" for mentoring over several weeks. OK, this is more for learning at home, but it's a chance for DiveMasters to show their core skills and earn some respect as a mentor (assuming they have the exemplary core skills in the first place).
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