Hi Fred,
I used to teach swimming as well as life guarding and as I recall your terminology is correct. Kick wise I like to mix it up. I use a lot of flutter kicks and dolphin kicks, but in a long haul situation (miles) I end up using a scissor kick and a side stroke. I have cooled my jets on the horizontal dolphin, because at high speeds
my hood seal blow out and in 43F water that means big head pain. I usually dive with flutter kicks and surface with dolphin kicks, but as Sven mentioned, I bet we all constantly modify what we do to contexual our behavior. In terms of sneaking up on fish I love to sink to them with no kick, gliding, it feels great, but not always possible.
my 2Cs,
Fd48
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