I use back kicks all the time for video, caves, wrecks, and for looking cool.
Finning backward applications?
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You don't push-off on a 14 inch Battleship Shell Armament to get away from it 
-->you use a backward fin kick. . .
-->you use a backward fin kick. . .KevinNM
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AJ
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Back kick to me is about regaining my position in the team formation and other skills like shooting a smb. Very usefull not having to use my hands for repositioning.
I think the point was ease in making backwards progress in the water or ergo creating thrust. If you can't do 100 ft or 33yds without heavy strain and fatigue, you have ill suited fins to do a back kick in the first place.
As for my practical applications, I usually do at least 25yds when getting Basic Students to fin laps for the first time. It boosts my ego
As for my practical applications, I usually do at least 25yds when getting Basic Students to fin laps for the first time. It boosts my ego
I backed finned probably 20 times diving yesterday, but probably only moved 20 feet... I just had to move a bit to frame a photo or get out of divers way.
100 feet? What gym exercise do you do to let you swim backwards that far without feeling it the next day? I feel like that is a bit of a stretch....
100 feet? What gym exercise do you do to let you swim backwards that far without feeling it the next day? I feel like that is a bit of a stretch....
Kharon
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I would like to develop this skill. Any good websites that explain how to do it?
I don't know exactly where you are, but the best instruction in this area would be at the Scuba Shack, just south of Hartford. Ed Hayes is a GUE instructor and teaches Fundies, in addition to a class of his own called Core Principles(Advanced Buoyancy when I took it). Very much worth the drive, and he's a great instructor. If he could be patient with a train wreck like I was, he can do it for anyone.
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