At 62, after years of "touch and turn" I finally decided to learn flip turn. I watched several tutorials but yours is the best by a long stretch. I found it specially useful the drill with the two kickboards . With some practice (and lots of water in the nose :-) ) I finally can flip turn during a whole 2500 mts training," Thanks a million!
I like that you demonstrated with the two kickboards. That provided a clearer visual of hand positioning during the turn. I have not seen others use that and it is helpful. Nice job!
THANK YOU for this!! I have watched dozens of videos on the subject, but yours was the first one to explain what to do with the hands during the turn! I have spent a lot of time trying to learn the flip but your advice made it happen. Thank you again!
I just love this channel ❤🏊♂️. This woman is like a swimmer rehab technician. She's the type that will immediately diagnose one's flaws and prescribe the right drills. This channel is even therapeutic for me😅. Thank you very much for sharing your experience. Greetings from the Bronx, USA🗽🇺🇸✌❤🏊♂️
None of us go fast enough to hurt ourselves if we actually hit the wall. Thank you for that! I was truly afraid of hurting myself. I'm 60 and just learned the flip turn recently. This video will help me improve! Thank you.
so, after 7 years of swimming on my summer team and doing flip turns thinking I was doing them perfectly normal, I join my high school team and learn that Ive been doing it wrong the whole time. this video discussed the same mistakes and used the same flip drill that I did yesterday in practice, which is cool
Thank you so much. I've been decades both pool and ocean swimming and I have yet to master this. Now, it's on my bucket list to finally master, and I will do it thanks to these drills!
In order to avoid water getting into the nostrils, it is necessary to blow out during the flip turn. But that empties your lungs, forcing to take breath immediately after the turn. What is a solution?
I try to only blow out slightly has that will loose less air. also you can practice increasing lung capacity has that will help with taking a breath off the wall. it takes some time and i struggled breathing off the wall a lot. for the most part you just need o keep training in order to get passed it
Thanks for asking this - I do the same thing! She's actually suggesting that you take at least two strokes after the turn before breathing in, which I'm assuming is after the dolphin kick phase. Seems very challenging to master and I'd be keen to hear how I can work on it.
I get so disoriented when flipping in the water, I can’t tell which way to head to the surface, I panic for oxygen and flap about trying to orient myself…. Basically I suck lol. And the more I fail at flip turns, the more nervous I get grrrrrr
Thank you for these tips. My friend recently got me into swimming and I love it. I've gone from looking like a total spaz to having enough confidence to try the flip turn for the very first time in my life. Fingers crossed.
Excellent video! I have been making all of those mistakes you covered. I can feel it's wrong, but haven't found a tutorial that really shows how to avoid those things.
I've been swimming with a club about a year and a half. I swam as a kid but only lessons. This video and particularly the first part about arm and hand position just clicked! And whilst they were very far from pretty, last night I managed my very first backstroke flip turn!!! Thank you so much, that was a real milestone, very happy 😂
Thanks for sharing, very good explanation of the flip turn. When I swim crawl 400, 200 and 100, I think a have a good breath and swim pace technique. Unfortunately where I swim I have to share the fast lane with other slow swimmers and they messed up my pace and the breathing and missed the location of the T. No excuse!!!, my challenge is to swim perfect with or without slow swimmers. I am training my body and my head to look at the soroundings and adapt the pace sometimes slow sometimes fast.
Flip turns are momentum driven. As you accelerate into the wall you transfer your linear momentum into angular momentum around an axis parallel to the wall. If done right the most efficient version of the flip turn doesn't include any hand movement to initiate the turn. You just keep your hands pointed in the opposite direction and immediately move to streamline as you are rotating over the axis.
I mean, if I were to take rhe time to preach physics irt flip turns it would have to include resistance/drag, inertia, and of course the centripetal momentum to address turning one’s body around
Thank you so much for solving my problem. That what I need to know n see the technique. Even my son explain to me I couldn't do it. Now I apreciated the way you explain n show in this video.
❤ i tried this today, and it was a mess. i was all over the lane. i could do the flip, and my feet on the wall. its the whole pushing and turning (without twisting) in streamline. i will keep watching this and practicing, until my flip turns are olympic pool worthy :) i had better progress with my open turns, where i elbowed my brother and called my mother to explain to her what happened, and also to boast about how my streamline underwater pushes are advancing splendidly, to which i would think she would be proud of me :) ps - you are still the best teacher ever :)
This was awesome. I’m still afraid to do them but I’m willing to try with your demonstration and tips. I never knew the T at the bottom was for that :).
I can do the flip, and worked out how to turn back round by using the wall and the Dolphin kick - thanks, you’ve improved my AdLib, thrashing about turn into something that looks like a pro!
Thanks so much for this video! I tried it today and my flip turns were a lot more peaceful and efficient. I worked on arm placement and hitting the wall in a squat position!
Yes thanks for the tutorial video. I took the tips on board and practiced this morning - especially with keeping arms by my side. Practiced the flips mid lap - got a bit messy - but when I flipped off the wall it fell into place - once. Looking forward to practicing more to become more fluid. Little steps. Thanks heaps for the video - love your direct, generous and enthusiastic sharing. You are very inspirational! Thanks again!
BIg THANKU Taylor🎉 Today finally did the bicep curl, kicked off the wall (not the floor!!!!) did streamline -looking at surface, blew out nostrils (only just!), did turnover and CONTINUED swimming!!!! Yahhhhhhoooooo THANK YOU
Thanks. Took these words to the pool and had an instantly better experience. Will start doing the drills as well - but just the conceptual piece was so effective.
Thank you so much for the tips, they are on point! Is there anything I can do, maybe drills, that could help me hold a longer breath. I am having a hard time because at the end of the flip turn I feel like I have no more breath so I panic and cannot continue swimming smoothly :/
Thank you! I'm an arm flailer using them to help complete the turn. I will try the arm curl next swim and do the drills. I'm usually a bit winded coming out the water so I breathe right away. Got to try getting in a couple of strokes first. This 66 yr old swimmer is trying to consistently swim < 2:00 min/100. Also got to try looking at the T. Enjoy your videos
In my free style backturn, I'm turning from crawl to backstroke, then turning at the surface. It allows me to breath much more. So to break the surface very far, even on long distances (400, 800, 1500). I noticed Sun Yang breathed much, but didn't break the surface very far. It is also good for your arms, because of two back strokes. One under the surface, the second above. Just like if you woke up in a large and good bed ! I did 25 minutes at fifty years, not especially fit. The last + IS that it is purest, smoothiest turn. So easy ! Sensual: Just like if you dived into the Sky ! You show it well in this post. There are several ways, with one common beginning. Congratulations. I like to innovate, focusing on " not to be disqualified". And to write down about swimming ! I like a New distance : la poursuite ( in french)... You don't know when it ends, because you have to catch your opponent. I learned it all at Tulle, France.
I finally learned the flip turn 2 days ago at 35. 😂 Using a nose clip helped A LOT in the beginning. What makes it challenging for most is the fear of getting water up your nose when you turn and with the nose clip on that essentially removes that fear. Now I need more practice to be better at it.
Please: what i have to avoid to don't fell nauseated during flipturns training? It's very hard for me. Close eyes? open eyes? Where to focus? Love the channel! Big hug from Brazil!
I've been getting back into swimming and for the first time struggled with flip turns. My tips: First I tried one or two normally to identify where I was getting tripped up: I was getting dissy, I was breathing out too much, I was afraid of the wall and not sure then to start the turn, I was kicking off the wall at inconsistent angles. First I practiced doing a flip (without the turn) away from the wall. Doing this over and over breathing out less and less each time, till I got water up my nose. I figured out that I only need to breath out a little stream of air to keep water out. As opposed to exhaling fully through my nose. I also only needed it as I qas comming into the flip. There is a certain point that water stops coming in. After a few times, my body knew where that point was and I knew to stop breathing out. These flips also helped me normalize the turning motion in the water and either feel less dizzy or be able to function despite the dizzyness. I then practiced flip turns away from the wall to analyze my form without the wall to psych me out. I then did some at the wall (aproaching with a few strokes to build momentum). Slowley I made myself wait slightly longer and longer till I found a good spot. I then went a bit closer to check and my turn was weird (cause it was too close). I was careful at this point to keep looking at the wall on approach (which I would normally not do) to make sure I wasn't going to injure myself. Sometimes I say I was too close in a dangerous way, then I would bail out (put my hands up to stop myself gradually on the wall and forgoe the turn). Now that I had figured out a good time to turn, I practiced it a few times to help my body remember it and ended the day on two good turns. This process took about 40 minutes and beforehand I could do flip turns, but they would exhaust me and make swimming laps continiously very hard. If you are working on the basics it will likely take more time and not all this will be helpful. Rambaling: I've found the best skill to have is to not panic under the water. If I am disoriented or get water under my nose, etc. I stop for a second and evaluate. I put the instinct to panic asside and figure out where I am and what to do. That is easier said than done. It may take time and desensitization. Don't push yourself too far and build your confidence. Knowing that I can handle the situations I put myself in helps me to mot panic in them. I have been in over my head a few times when swiming in the ocean. Staying calm allowed me to conserve the energy I needed to make it back to shore and prevent those moments from becoming true emergencies where I needed to be rescued. Stay calm and learn saftey skills.
Hi. Very helpful tips on flip turning. I'm having trouble with my free style. Is it possible to do the flip turns while doing the dolphin stroke. Tqvm❤
Great tuition video. As a club swimmer when i was a young man ( 73yrs now ) we were taught the reverse flip turn, where as you approach the wall you'd have one arm outstretched and just before your hand touched the wall, you would flip onto your back and do a reverse somersault. This brought you right side up for the push off. I reckon it was just as quick as the forward roll. Does anyone do this nowadays ? be interested to find out if it's still current.
