Purchase Options

Additional Uses/Tips/Support:

The Knee Strap is perfect size to fit around kickboards (to add our Weight Bags, Drag Cups, Hip Fins, 1SwimChute, or Power Bags to kickboard)

Long-Term Maintenance:

• As the female Velcro ‘feathers out’ just take scissors and trim down the excess to get more life out of your straps.

Adding Weight to your Kickboard:

• • Make your kickboard more neutrally buoyant by combining:
    • Our Weight Bags
    • Our Knee Strap
  • This can nearly eliminate the flotation of your board so you have to use your core to stabilize yourself
  • It can also help maintain a more ideal body position, position, and alignment while underwater off your walls

  Adding Drag to your Kickboard:

  • We have 3 options for adding drag to your kickboard. Start with our Drag Cups along with our Power Bags
  • Our Power Bags with our Weight Bags inside the bags
  • Or our 1SwimChute can be clipped with the carabiner to the front of soft kickboards or use 1-2 of our Knee straps to secure it.
• These options are similar to pulling a parachute but can be dropped on the pool deck faster than a parachute can be removed for alternating race pace and EZ effort in your sets.

Adding Alignment to your Kickboard:

• Combine our Hip Fins to the underside of your kickboard
• This will provide a new way to feel you board as you come off the walls and help encourage ‘straight on/straight off’ instead of ‘circle swimming’ all your walls

Train the Ideal Ankle Catch and Finish for Breast Kicking

BR Kick with knee strap and Power Bags

• • • Quick to install around the knees (can leave slightly loose for personal preference)
    • Better than a buoy between knees as the buoy forces the hips too high instead of hips moving forward
    • Trains the ankles to quickly flex out and catch as much water as possible
    • Trains a complete whip kick around and back behind the body
    • Add the Power Bags to the feet (close the bottoms to keep feet inside bags) for more kick power
    • Kick vertical with the Knee band to ensure the most power and quality

Feedback (Swimmers FEEL / Coaches SEE / Video for Self-Analysis):

• • • FEEL your feet recover fast and fully
    • FEEL your feet catch water with the outer edge of feet as high as possible
    • FEEL your feet (big toes) finish completely together
    • SEE the feet finish up close to the surface and not down below the body

Links:  Using the Knee Strap to Fine Tune Breast kicking

Control Knee Width on Flip Turns

• • • Wrap around knees for the desired distance between knees
    • At first you may want to keep knees close
    • Eventually you want to train the knees to maintain shoulder width on recovery

Feedback (Swimmers FEEL/ Coaches SEE / Video for Self Analysis)

• • • You should feel water moving through your legs as you recover the legs on flip turns
    • Your feet need to land on the wall at shoulder width
    • Stop your flip with your feet on the wall and check to see your foot placement

Link:   Using the Knee Strap to Improve Flip Turns

Use the Knee Strap as an Ankle Strap

• • • Use for pull sets to train the core to press the chest and raise the legs
    • Makes pull sets much harder due to the added drag of the legs lower in the water
    • Use to attach parachutes from the ankles for added power to pull sets
    • Add a pull buoy between the ankles to create more imbalance to the front of body

Feedback (Swimmers FEEL / Coaches SEE / Video for Self-Analysis):

• • • As your feet sink, press down on your chest to help drive up your legs
    • Alternate between adding a pull buoy between the ankles in different sets
    • Feel any ‘fishtail’ of your legs and use your core to stabilize your side-to-side balance

Links:  Using the Knee Strap to Fine Tune Upper Body Strength

Use Knee Strap for Pull Sets

• • • Knee strap with pull buoy between thighs
    • Like pull sets with an ankle strap, you can also do pull sets with the knees strapped together
    • This is an easier transition if you are struggling with an ankle strap on pull sets
    • Can also use knee strap to help hold buoy between thighs

Feedback (Swimmers FEEL / Coaches SEE / Video for Self-Analysis):

• • • As your feet sink, press down on your chest to help drive up your legs
    • Be sure to do pull sets without a pull buoy to help improve your core and power
    • Feel any ‘fishtail’ of your legs and use your core to stabilize your side-to-side balance

Links:  Using the Knee Strap to Fine Tune Upper Body Strength

Use Knee Strap as Belt

• • • Great as a 1SwimBelt for thinner swimmer (10 and under)