The Kickboard Kicks Ass

It does as it is not easy trying to swim with using only your legs. Well, perhaps... super fit Elaine can manage that... but for normal people like myself, Vic and KY... it is a struggle.



Granted, it does look simple. Get in the pool. Hold the board in front of you, stretch out your arms and start kicking. Yeah. Until you realise that you aren't moving and that in order for you to actually do laps in the pool, you gotta be kicking real hard with all your might. Haha. My legs cramped after a while, so I just used the board to stay afloat. KY's had leg cramps twice trying to master the kickboard.

And Vic.. well.. let's say.. he 'humped' the board trying to do Butterfly Kicks (from the Butterfly Stroke).

Here's what a Butterfly Kick looks like:

And according to eHow.com, a Butterfly Kick is to "kick your legs up and down once in a whipping motion generating from the hips and bending at the knees, as if you were a dolphin."

So, imagine.. trying to do a Butterfly Kick with in water with a kickboard minus the hand movements. Fugging hilarious.

Anyway, I read somewhere that doing Butterfly Kicks with a kickboard helps to work the ab muscles.