Can you beat 62 year old Rowdy Gaines in a 50 kick? Probably not.

Rowdy Gaines is many things...

4x Girl Dad
3x Olympic Champion
8x Halloween Costume Contest Winner
100% American

He's also atop the #50KickChallenge Legend Leaderboard with this exuberant effort!

Post your best 50 LCM flutter kick with a board and tag Brett (hawkebr), Nate (swimnerds), and Sonny (theswimsuitguy) on IG or Twitter.

Fastest man and woman will get $250!

Snorkels allowed. 1 stroke into the wall -- not 1 cycle -- just one arm pull for a single arm touch.

Kick through December 31st! Unlimited entries allowed.

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[ssteeeeeve]

I did ~48 sec LCM 1.5 years ago as a 54 year old, and did 44 sec when I was ~51. Time to start training the kick. I think Ande Rasmussen was kicking 30's when he was mid 50's

Nevertheless, I met Rowdy in 2013 at a SCY meet in SC. Gave me video feedback on my 50 free and always had time to talk. One heck of a nice person, one badass Olympian, and an awesome Master's swimmer. He's also my favorite sports commentator.

[Anna-wkux]

Rowdy’s kicks still Great! What a legend! Thumbs up!

[SkillsNT]

I wish I had access to a 50 meter pool to find out. But probably not. Will let you know when I do.

[gusmarin]

No shame in losing to an Olympic champion!

[theangryegg]

I won’t be touching a long course pool for 7 more months but I did a 50 fly kick SCM in :35 last week

[tmdillon]

I used to be on the masters swim team at the Lake Mary, FL YMCA. Rowdy lives in Lake Mary and kind of watched over the program. He didn't train with the team but did train in the same pool with friends of his. I was a swimmer in HS on three state champion teams and one semester in college. One day I showed up for practice and no one else did because of scheduling. 10 minutes later as I'm warming up, Rowdy shows up with two other swimmers. He decides to call me over to train with them. I'm shocked but OK! The other two swimmers are a woman who's a relay medalist at the 88 and 92 Olympics and the man was the captain of the Gator's two NC teams. They're all 8-10 years older than me. I lasted 15 minutes before tapping out. His training speed was my all-out speed. I was thrashed after 15 minutes. But Rowdy always would take time and talk to me after that. Weird to shake hands and be on a first-name basis with a guy you see every Olympics. It's been 6-7 years since I tore some stuff in my knee and stopped swimming. I doubt he'd remember me now.

[janechen]

Didn’t expect to see skills n talents here imma big fan.

[alexkizer]

I kicked a 28 SCY back in highschool. But there you have two walls and a stroke into the wall. I wonder how fast I could do this in my prime.

[robohippy]

Is this a metric or yards pool. If I remember correctly, 100 yards is 91 meters. Timed myself on a 25 yard sprint, for me anyway, flutter kick, and got 35 seconds, just pushing off enough to get up to kick speed. About 4 years ago, it was almost a full minute. Did a 30 second 25 today, dolphin kick. I am only 71....

[joeekaps]

I been working my damnest to try to make a sub 30 second 25 meters kick. Been training about 2 months now and I started at 1:10 and after one month I got it down to 58 seconds. Then every week after, I been dropping my time a couple seconds a week. 2 months later I'm down to 45 seconds. Kick boarding is brutal work but excellent for wind and cardio. Not to mention the improvement in your stroke

[ExitSiign]

Curious to try it hehe my aunt just swam the English Channel at 62 and I’m just getting back in the short course pool at 30. Long course was always tough even as a kid lol

[ianfroud]

When I was swimming competitively Rowdy held the world Record, might be wrong was it 49.36 ? or at sometime he swam that time and I thought wow, Alec Baumann was who I thought I was was when swimming both my IMs
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

[ghadeerdr]

How strong rowdy is!!! I didn't thought he could even swim ...what a beast ❤

[kanye.southeast]

I know there’s gonna be some people fast enough to go under 30 so I’m not even gonna try

[gmtoomey]

Brett Hawke & Rowdy Gaines - 2 champs for the price of 1 !

[joeekaps]

Is the kick supposed to be kinda like your whipping your legs. Like a whip, or straight up and down? I don't hardly go anywhere when I kick 😢

[davidhooper]

Doesn’t Rowdy hold EVERY master’s age group record for every event he’s ever tried?

[uttanasana]

😭 I training my technic for many years at crowl. I do 40s 😔 pfff....

[Fuzcapp]

Rumour has it (from the Australian Institute of Sport) that Alex Popov used to do 27 seconds for a 50m kick ...

[kelvin-nzsf]

my butterfly recond was 26.8s in 50m, but flutter kick only 59s