flots am
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To me the idea is kick and glide. It seems to me that 1 kick requiring a little more force is more efficient than 2 or 3 easy kicks.
Unfortunately, there's still no free lunch.
The only thing that matters is how well the fin directs the water in the opposite direction from your intended direction of travel. It doesn't really matter if it's one hard kick or two easy kicks. Energy is energy and efficiency is efficiency.
What does matter is how much water (energy) is directed in useless directions like up, down and sideways, since this doesn't contribute to moving you were you want to go, but does use energy (and also stirs up silt if you're near any)
flots.