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What can I do to keep from ending up at the bottom of the pool while doing flip turns? I scraped my finger once, my arm, my back all on the bottom of the pool. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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My biggest issue (though, I struggle with other parts of it as well) is that I get water going up my nose as I start the somersault. So to counter that, I exhale through my nose through the flip, but then by the time I'm pushing off the wall my lungs are nearly empty and so I feel like I have to rush to the surface to get a breath, which feels like it negates any benefit of doing a flip turn. I guess if I clean up the other parts of the technique that should improve as well, cuz my turns feel really slow right now, which makes the breathing part more of a struggle too.
Technique is definitely key, and it does take a lot of practice! Try exhaling very slowly as you flip - instinctually, you want to exhale quickly to relieve pressure, but professional swimmers do not exhale at all during their flip turn. You've got this :)
You have to push your upper lip against your nosetrills. True ! And fondamental ! It helps to do what thé teacher says, which IS also very accurate ! Good training !
I came here hoping to learn how to correct my tumble, with a half twist, turn, but hearing you compare it to something like an X games manoeuvre on a half pipe, im feeling somewhat proud of its degree of difficulty and am contemplating keeping it.
I have heard a couple of Olympic swimmers say that you must spot the T on the wall for your flip turn. Depending on the bottom of the pool is not reliable, and if you miss the turn, you lose. They ALL lift their heads slightly to spot the wall. A slight lifting also adds to the rotation when you tuck your head/chin into your body. Yes, you can lift your head way to high out of the water, and it is a subtle movement, not a huge one. If you are getting a big kerthump when you tuck your head/chin, then your head was too high. Pretty much all of your swimmers in the video use a short bicep curl with their arms which adds to rotational speed. If that is good enough for Caleb Dressel, then it is good for me. Arms are not passive in the flip turn.
Going to use your videos to work on my breath training so I can stop breathing into my flip turns! Just getting back into swimming for fitness after taking five years off. So happy I found this channel.
1)When pulling chin down, palms are up. 2) when flipping over, the palms point down and the frorearm makes a countereffort so as to straighten the body. 3)right before pushing off the wall with feet, the palms go up again and end in fingers of both arms interlaced. Palms up, palms down, palms up. The later video excerpt (female) however doesn't switch palm direction at all.
I wish youtube and channels like this one existed 20 years ago, when I competed and was struggling to get my times down as much as the rest of the kids. Just the tip about not turning before push off probably would have allowed me to shed the second that kept me behind from the rest. Still, great tip, will apply it to my practice from now on
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The issue in public pools is that sometimes you’re flip turning between people standing at the ends so I twist off the wall and look quickly to avoid a collision with a swimmer coming into the wall. I will try and flip onto my back in future but I’ll probably still be concerned about collisions.
Appreciate the video. A couple of people were making fun of me while I was practicing my flip turns and these tips definitely help make me better. This ought to shut up my wife and kids!
I asked to be taught this when I took adult swimming lessons several years ago just so I could make useful exercise out of the 9 metre pool at one of my former apartment buildings. I have no interest in competitive swimming myself. Now I am practicing doing the manuever without nose clips for the first time, just to see if I can do it...
What can I do to keep from ending up at the bottom of the pool while doing flip turns? I scraped my finger once, my arm, my back all on the bottom of the pool. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Are you scraping the bottom when you turn on the wall or when you push off? When I first learned how to flip turn I was scraping at push off and needed to change my angle to be out/straight, I had previously been angling down somehow. No issues after about a week of practice and just getting more comfortable!
I swim because it’s the only thing my lower back can tolerate. I’ve been able to flip turn for a couple weeks now, but the force of kicking off the wall seems to be causing back pain. It’s almost causing the same effect as the impact of a jump on land does (NOT GOOD for a bad back!). Is there something I can do to fix this? Or are people with horrible backs just doomed to not being able to do any flip turns?
Hi Lee! With paddles, you'll want to make sure that your arms are tight to your chest so they're close to your body and won't hit as much resistance from the water. With a pull buoy, squeeze your thighs tightly together as you tuck into a ball! Hope this helps :)
Hey hope you are doing well. I have a question. How should I know my orientation or position inside water if it's in river or canal as water is not much clear. This has really bothered me alot
Great instructional video Fares. A lot to take away from this. I use the reverse flip as taught when i swam many years ago, so no problem coming out in line and with no unwanted arm movements. What's your thoughts on this ?
I sometimes end up too low after I flip. At times I’ll end up either scraping my elbow, my hand, and even my back on the bottom of the pool. I think I’m doing something wrong with my arms.
Very informative as always, but I still have difficulty estimating the distance from the wall where I will do a flip, as the swimming pool I practice in has no lines on the floor or the wall..what should I do?
As a 15-year-old who has been swimming since I was 8..this is based on when you start, and your skill level to determine whether a minute is a good time or not. I advise you to ensure your technique is good and your breath control. you will improve over time regardless of age. the USA standard time is something you can look up and work toward.
Hey, i think this is kindof adumb question, and unrelated to flipturns, but with a techsuit, would you be faster in briefs or the shorts kind since they have more of an aea of compression
It's a cue - you'll naturally lift your head, but you don't want to lift it so high that your hips will sink. By thinking "don't look" - especially for beginners - you'll have a more efficient turn.
Absurd. A tennis ball bounces because of elasticity. Last time I checked a concrete wall ain’t elastic. Go fast into wall…because… you want to go fast. In and out. Treat the wall like its hot. It will burn your feet.
my man i like your videos but the momentum into turns is false. the tennis ball comes back faster because of the elastic nature of the objects in question (racket, ball). velocity is directional so you are reversing going negative, in short you need to generate all the speed going back from where you came with your muscles. none of it comes from your momentum but... i know keeping speed is important for the turn speed and more obviously the actual lap time :) thanks for videos though!
I had some similar thoughts about this too. But it may be a little more complicated if you take the tendons acting as some sort of spring into consideration. I'm not sure how this all balances out but there is some element of elasticity involved.
This is an interesting point. A person initiating a vertical jump from a crouch can improve their jump height by at least 10% by instead initiating their jump with a downward counter-movement. So, swimmers can expect similar benefits by coming into the wall fast. The exact biomechanical nature of this improvement, probably some combination of neuromuscular force development and elasticity, is still not settled. See "stretch-shortening cycle" (SSC). Yes, the tennis ball analogy, though a useful mental picture, is a gross oversimplification, as it is nearly a perfectly elastic collision.
Hi Desmond! A few reasons - one, for efficiency, as you can get more laps in when you're spending less time hanging on the wall. The second is to improve your overall skill set in the water, which will in turn increase your feel and technique :)
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Hey hope you are doing well. I have a question. How should I know my orientation or position inside water if it's in river or canal as water is not much clear. This has really bothered me alot
