Lesson 7: The kick

Finally we moved on to working on the kick today. From TotalImmersion I have a very pronounced 2 beat kick – that is to say, I kick onceper arm stroke, primarily to rotate the body. The idea is to squeeze a few moresmaller kicks in between, so that I will be doing what is called a 6 beat kick.You may wonder why I am talking about going straight from a 2 to a 6 beat kickwithout passing through 4. The reason is that a 4 beat kick means that everyother stroke your kicking leg is exactly the wrong one to help you rotate. Imight as well try to benefit from all that hard work to coordinate my kick withmy rotation that is the backbone of the Total Immersion technique. It's a bit like dancing a Waltz...