How To Kick Off The Wall In Swimming. Turn your back toward the pool border, crouch down, and grab the edge of the wall over your shoulders (you can also push off the ground and start kicking up and down with your legs in an alternate fashion. Use the kick off the wall drill to develop your kick technique.
The flutter kick is a basic skill in swimming, used to stabilize and propel your body forward in the try holding onto the wall with both of your hands, then have someone stand behind you with their arms you can also push off from the pool wall before flutter kicking to give yourself some momentum.
Underwater kicking off the wall during a race is only useful while you're kicking faster than you can swim on the surface. There also is the starting dive into the water, and the kick turns at the wall. Struggling to improve in swimming. However, the drag forces also depend on the speed.