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The Kick
Picture #2, a swimmer with 40 degrees will have a kick that is of little or no use. To place the top of the foot at an angle that is propulsive requires significant bending of the knee. When the knee bends, the thigh moves down and causes enough drag to cancel out most or all of the propulsion from the top of the foot. The kick is not worth doing. These swimmers love pull buoys! Swimmers with less than this range of motion, when kicking flutter kick on a kick board, can actually go backwards.
This is why I am so slow in the water, compounded by heavy muscular legs.
Well there is the possibility of using the rack to improve my flexibility. I think I can build one of them myself.
The Kick
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Hope for Iraq
Tribal contributions to counterinsurgency – Fightin’ 6th Marines!
The locals are getting tired of Al Queda and taking things into their own hands in an organized way. (That’s the optmistic view)
Things just feel different here now. The reporters with significant embed experience under their belt who fly in from different areas of the country remark consistently that the environment in Anbar is much different than elsewhere. No one is saying words like “victory” or “peace,” but the words “significant hope” are on everyone’s lips.
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Chocolate Gourmand Blog
There’s even a blog devoted to chocolate!
