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Fins and Flippers for Swimmers

A guide to some of the available flippers and fins for swimmers.
About Fins and Flippers
Want to improve your kick strength, ankle flexibility, body position, and go faster during practice? Add flippers to your workouts.
Fins by Zoomers
The home of the premier swimming training flipper, they also make several other interesting training aids.
Force Fins
An interesting design that does work for competitive swimmers as a training aid, the best choice in their line is probably the Multi Force model.
Monofins
From Finis, if you don't know what these are, you don't know fast swimming.
Rodale's Fin Review
A review of several models of scuba fins from the Rodale Web site. These are all too big for most competitive swimming applications.
Surf Fins
Models designed more for surfing than swimming, they claim to be the most comfortable fins on earth.
Toe-Fin
An innovative design for a swimming fin - they look comfortable and are designed to make you a better kicker (leading to a better swimmer) and to increase your flexibility.

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