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“If your kick is stealing the spotlight — it’s stealing your energy too.”

In long-distance freestyle — especially in the glide technique — your kick isn’t meant to push you forward.
It’s not your engine. It’s your stabilizer.

A big, noisy kick breaks the line, lifts your heart rate, and ruins the rhythm you’ve worked so hard to build.
The goal is not more movement, it’s more balance.

What you want is an invisible kick:
Light. Relaxed. Just enough to lift the hips and support your rotation. That’s it. It disappears into the stroke and that’s exactly the point.

But here’s the catch:
To swim with that kind of minimal kick, you still need to train your legs. Short kick sets, vertical kicking, ankle mobility, they’re all part of the work that makes the effortless possible.

The result?
Less drag. Less fatigue. More flow and a freestyle stroke that holds together for hours.

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