Quote Originally Posted by light_sabe_r View Post
AHHH! So KSH is arm strokes more important that leg kicks when it comes to tris?? I mean on the bike you're using a different muscle group to the pool if youonly use your arms right??

More important?

Uuuummm... well... let me just say this... a front crawl stroke with very good form, can be very effective without a lot of kicking involved.

The key is learning how to insert your arms in correctly... so you can glide. A goal might be to try to get to the other end of the pool with less strokes than the lap before.

There are many times in the pool that I am passing people in the lanes next to me... and they are making a huge splash and working very hard to get to the other end... where I am gliding, focused on my stroke, with a small kick to keep my legs involved... with very little splashing happening.

Thus... swimming is ALL ABOUT FORM. You can have horrible running form and still go fast... you can't have horrible swim form and still go fast.

Finally... if you think about it, if you can swim fast with very little kicking... that only saves your legs for the run. Of course, a good strong kick does come into play when you need to power through waves or currents.