Subject: RE: Flip Turn video clip?When I learned as kid I ended up with scars on the tops of both shoulders from pushing off right towards the bottom of the pool!
Now I do them for several reasons:
-first, there is the underwater glide where you can really focus on teh feeling of the water slipping past your body and makign yourself as streamlined as possible. you can't get this during any other part of swim training. I think it is good tactile training for how you should feel while swimming
-second, there is that little extra it of aerobic training depending on how far you glide before coming up.
You can still do a flip turn, not push off with too much vigor, come up quickly and not break breathing cadence too much.
Not doing a flip turn keeps you VERY aerobic, but sometimes I find that it breaks my rhythm a little too much.
It all depends on how you do it. |