Team Ankle Stretcher (Team Fankle)

Warm up first by doing ankle rotators, etc. or swim and get out to stretch. If you want to prove this works, time a kick set. Measure your ankle flexibility. Use the Team Fankle or your individual Fankle or Fankle Mini at home, retest you ankle flexibility and retest your kicking in the water. It’s amazing how much you can improve!

It’s simple.


To improve your underwaters, you HAVE to improve your ankle flexibility. Each centimeter of improvement helps you push water backward. Yet we hold our feet in 90 degrees almost all day long!To improve ankle flexibility we have to hold the stretch for some time -- at least as long as it takes for your brain to let you relax and trust you aren’t going to hurt yourself with a fast stretch.


The Team Fankle encourages swimmers to hopld the stretch in two ways:

  1. 1.You measure your present ankle flexibility (the greatest swimmers have over 180 degrees of flexibility. Look at the ankles in the video by Lenny below).

  2. 2.You stretch, improve, and retest and improve  over time.


The Team Fankle includes a protractor to measure and four stations for swimmers to stretch and talk or text, etc. so they can forget the discomfort of stretching and relax while improving at least as much as they do using fins and kickboards, etc.

 

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