diveprof
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If you are in splt fins, the standard flutter kick delivers well. For blade fins, I love the dolphin kick as s variant. Get your weighting/trim right first. This has a major impact on air consumption.
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Looking to try and reduce air consumption as much as I can while I am learning. What's the most efficient kicking style. Power vs. Effort?
One less thing to raise the heart rate.
I was in the middle of filming along side a wreck this past weekend, when another diver dropped in, and proceeded to frog kick his way along the side of the wreck in front of me. Every stroke blew silt out of the zebra mussle encrusted hull to his side. Man oh man, if this wasn't the place for a flutter kick instead.......