Question Who uses pelvic tilt?

[Trace Malinowski]

Talk about a clickbait title!

I dated a girl for a few weeks who insisted that a pillow under her hips was a must.

 

[txdamselfish]

Would Marie13 advice here give me a good starting point for the pelvic tilt?

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[NothingClever]

It's been so long since I flutter kicked while SCUBA diving I can't remember how much I rotate my hips.

When fitness swimming, I definitely rotate my hips when I'm reaching to start my stroke.

While frog-kicking, absolutely no twist and I don't perceive any tilt. The whole point of the frog kick is to remove the need to contract the abdominal muscles thereby improving one's diaphragmatic breathing. Tilting up or down along a transverse axis of the hips is going to make something contract.

 

[NothingClever]

Changing the thrust direction is done by rotating the hips (pelvic tilt).

Could definitely use a video to understand this nuance.

 

[formernuke]

I'm having a hard time picturing this underwater while swimming. Plus not sure how it would help.

 

[dmaziuk]

Flutter kick comes from the glutes and lower back, if "pelvic tilt" means your hips rotate around the lower spine, that's just how you flutter-kick. As opposed to "bicycle-kick".

In breaststroke, you could angle your kick down and go "wave style" -- that involves the abs and pelvis a little and is totally irrelevant to the "modified frog" kick you'd use on SCUBA.

 

[lermontov]

I dated a girl for a few weeks who insisted that a pillow under her hips was a must.

can we break this off into a seperate thread