How To Do A Flip Turn When Swimming | Tumble Turn Step-By-Step Guide!
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- Flip turns, you've seen people swimming on tv do them and tried them in the pool yourself, but how do you master this skill? They can be tricky but Mark is here to break it down with a step-by-step guide so you can look like a pro in your next swim session!
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Some months ago I was obsessed with including flip turns in my train, I felt left behind not knowing how to do it and seeing my swimmates doing it so effortlessly. I watched this video over and over I just couldn't replicate it in the water, I felt so frustrated until one day, it clicked and now I swim for kilometers doing flip turns and the other day one of my mates said my flip turns are amazing and asked me for advice lol. Thanks gtn 🏊🏾♂️
Took me awhile to get it. At first, I felt like a dying walrus. The issue is speed. As your speed gets more consistent, it’s easier. My recommendation, and one that the GTN guys left out, sorry mates, is not to look up towards the wall. It slows you down and will make the turn too far from the wall. Practice looking only at the T at the end of the lane line. Keeping your head down allows you a better glide and more speed into the turn, which makes the turn tons easier. Hope that helps.
helpful, thanks
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.
It means your feet land too near the water surface so you get pushed downwards when you kick off the wall. You need to be parallel (horizontal) with the pool floor when your feet land on the wall. It’s either you’re initiating you’re turn too late or you’re “uncurling” from that tight ball too early.
我拜讀過閣下的評語，而今日我在泳池嘗試，果然效果好好。
多謝閣下無私的賜教。
Thanks. I figured it had something to do with speed into the turn. I am far to slow.
I made flip-turns my 2021 resolution. Been doing ALL of my turns in the pool as flip turns this year. 4 months in, I think I’ve gotten them. Figuring that it’s the 10,000 times rule... I’ve done just about 10,000 by my count.
Total badass. You’ve sold me.
Thanks for the video. My advice is to practice every single time you get to the end. The more you do it, the easier it gets.
Has taking me an age to get these right, shooting off at all angles 😂 Have found driving your head down, flip, plant then push off to a twist all whilst making yourself long. They do take some practice but help your speed and stroke count no end.
I have been swimming for 35 years and I was doing some fossilised errors, thanks to this video I am able to correct them! Thanks!
My ears always get water. Is there a solution?
Always wanted to know how to do this. Thank you!!!
I’ve been trying to master the turn for years, this has really helped thank you 😊
Very helpful instructions….I’m getting there but definitely need more practice!
Thank you ..
Love your explanation. Now I’m going to practice…
When I see other videos and ppl doing it, it looks easy............been practicing this for months and still haven't mastered it yet. It's very difficult to do
I'll say for the arm movements, I usually have both hands out in front and imagine pulling on the "T". So it's more of a Butterfly pull then a single arm pull.
Me too, I find that it is easier to get the somersault "straight" when using both arms
Thanks for this! I always had to flutter my hands to keep the flip going, which slowed me down and also confused my watch into thinking I hadn't reached the wall. It became so frustrating I switched to touch turns. I'm looking forward to getting it right from now on!
I’m having better luck with BUTTERFLY than this freakin flip turn!
😊😅
One thing that drove me crazy when watching videos on the flip turn, was that there are a lot of 'tricks' to learning the flip turn, and many of the videos would have a couple of tips, but none, ever, had all the tips. Most notable that are not here, using your arms in the bicep curl to help pull you over, and tucking your chin into your chest to initiate the rotation. I am so old that they wouldn't teach us flip turns because 'they are too difficult and you can't do them'...... Now, kids learn them as soon as they can make the length of the pool....
Turning your chin in is so crucial it’s crazy they forgot it
Remember to keep your arms pointing towards the direction you want to be going afterwards ie the opposite end of the pool and not the bottom of the pool or the surface!
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.
“Reaching down to touch your toes”
Hmmmmm……
I’ll give it a shot. 😊
I struggle with when to take the last breath before the turn and how soon to take one after. I keep hearing that I shouldn't breathe after the flags and also that I should take at least two strokes after the turn before breathing again. But at my pace that's a lot of not breathing! Are these really "best practices" or is someone just trying to drown me?
Ignore what other people say about breathing and find what works for you.
Personally, I breathe to the every two strokes whilst swimming and take my last breath on my last right arm recovery before the turn, so well beyond the flags.
Coming out of the turn, I breathe as soon as my stroke is re-established.
Just do not breathe from the front looking at the wall just before bending the other way to the turn! And after coming to the surface breathe when you have to, but ideally not on the very first stroke. Saying when one should breathe like that is one of those things that are very easy to say, but then can be very hard to even national level swimmers.
Question: I wonder if I need to relearn the flip turn, because I flip and twist, so that I'm already on my side when my feet land on the wall. Should I start again?
It would be much faster to push back off on your back, or somewhere in between. If you haven't already, id recommend. Should be easier
Got any tips for doing tumble turns in a shallow pool? I started working on doing tumble turns last year, but only at the deep end. Problem is the pool I visit regularly there isn’t a deep end!
As long as you do not risk hitting your head to the bottom of the pool, you can do flip turns! If you cannot make a real under water glide after jumping off the wall, but have to come to the surface early with speed, you can just wait for the speed to go back to normal-ish swimming speed in gliding position before starting to swim again. That prevents you from creating interesting techniques in a phase of the turn when you cannot feel the water pressure under your arms when doing strokes, like swimming normally. (this applies ofc just to distance swimming)
Thanks for the video guys, however it would be good to see the wrong way to do it aswell. Reason I ask is I always end up hitting my back on the pool floor. Would be good to know what I'm doing wrong.
😊
No getting round it, you’re going to need to do this a few thousand times before you nail it.
The flip turn is on my to-do liste once pools open again in my region :-(
Hot to prevent water going up nose?
I don't look like a total badass yet - I look like a total ass. Which means I'm probably halfway there!
Did flip turns for years. My problem is that as I aged (currently 64) the flip turn causes me to be dizzy. Any suggestion on how to deal with the dizziness?
I've heard this called vertigo, and sometimes it's caused by not staying straight (head over butt) when you turn. There are lots of videos out there about it, maybe focus on form to see if you've relaxed something that's causing it. I also have noticed this if I'm trying to go too long without a breath, but that's pretty easy to diagnose!
@@flynnifyable Thanks for the info. I will check out some videos. It's just strange since it started after I returned to the pool once they reopened after 8 months due to Covid. Never had an issue before that.
I heard ear plugs help
If none of the other suggestions don´t help, you can also try to make the turn a less aggressive and less complex movement. I mean if the sharp turn and flickering view while doing it is part of the reason.. I mean that you could focus on flipping first, and making the turn back face down more after the bouncing off the wall (nose clip might be necessary). Also, if you carry more swimming speed to the wall you are turning, that speed helps you just turn over without that much effort when you bend to that barrel - hopefully it could make the turning more relaxed. I must add that I do not know/remember how hard this is what I just said, as I was very young when I learned to flip turn and I have just done them somehow since..
Edit. And if you can: try not to look at the wall before doing the turn (very common), if you have pool end mark at the bottom of the pool.
Is it just in Aus we call it a tumble turn? Flip turn sounds very American to me but I guess the English say it too! Learn something every day.
Yeah, we call it tumble turn in the UK too. We had some rather confused American’s when we first started calling them tumble turns
@@markthrelfall3577 there you go!
Thank you Scott! Fellow Aussie here, and I was wondering the same thing! I’ve always called it a tumble turn.
Hi, I've tried flip turning but have always ended up 'diving' deeper in the pool after planting my feet and leaving the wall after the flip turn. I really don't know what I'm doing wrong so am unable to correct it, and then find myself to struggle to surface to take a breath after the flip turn. What could be causing this to happen and what can I do to correct this? Thanks.
I did this at the beginning, even scraped my shoulder on the pool bottom once. I realized I was closing my eyes (don't know why) and adding the visual of looking at the surface fixed this for me. It somehow connected the motion to the understanding of where I was in the water.
Maybe you push off too early, before you have done a full somersault?
@@karinaniskanen1386 Possibly. I suppose the only way to tell is to get someone to video me doing a flip turn, and then I might know where I've gone wrong.
I am rather new to flips turns and I am often getting cramps in the muscles under the feet after doing the first flip turns, if anyone has a hint on how to avoid this it would be appreciated. I guess that I am probably pushing the wall to hard or in a wrong way. Usually I just push with one foot and rather gently, which helps, but the result is that my turns are rather "slow"
It just takes time. Triathletes have a bad habit of using limited muscle groups and thus the moment you try using something "else" if just feels awful. Same thing happened to me...a few months later you start getting the correct feel. The big thing is just to focus on being as "smooth" as possible. If you do that, smooth will become "fast". But if you just try fast...well, it will never become smooth.
I noticed that when I get cramps in the bottom of the feet 🦶 is because I tense the feet too much. Try to be more relaxed. I hope that helps.
Been trying for a couple of years without success 🥴
Well my legs still keep flipping to the side 😭
Water in my nose. Trying to trickle air through my nose but still, water gets into my nose. Yachh
Make sure you have a very gentle release of air through your nose throughout. It doesn’t need to be a forceful exhale, but just enough to stop the water going up
@@markthrelfall3577 maybe that's it, I blow it out all at once and then there is nothing left at the end of the turn 😁Thanks!
It's difficult. Took me several months to master, and I'm still not very good at it. When you're throwing a somersault, your head gets a little bit deeper in the water than during normal swimming, increasing the water pressure against your nostrils. At that precise but very fleeting moment, you need to be blowing out a little bit more forcefully to keep water out, but still not all out, because just a split second later you're going to need all the oxygen you have for your big leg muscles to push forcefully from the wall. Learning that timing is difficult.
And to make it really look like you're a really tough nut, you'd also need to do some nice underwater dolphin kicks after your little flip before returning to normal front crawl (and taking a breath). That's the part that I still find to be the hardest one… I usually just glide for a moment and then instantly begin to swim (and take a breath).
Yet even without those dolphin kicks it's faster. Personally, this is evident by me constantly being a little bit faster in a 25m pool than in a 50m pool.
I don’t know if this would help, but when I started to practice this turns. I closed my nostrils with my fingers. As you push from the wall wit your feet move your hands to the stream line position. Once you get familiar on how to turn and the timing you will be better at blowing a bit of air through your nose and the water will not get in. I hope this helps.
@@nightsfalling Hi! So I read your comment a few weeks back and I tried this the next day. And it worked for me so soo good!! It did wonders for me. Idk why I had not thought of pinching my nose because that is what was causing the issue for me. I couldn't get comfortable while doing a tumble turn.
I used your technique and was able to tumble turn, with slow speed however but I was still getting much more used to being upside down in water.
And a few days later I tried the tumble turn without pinching my nose and it worked!!!! One of the happiest days of my life!
I had to find your comment again just to thank you for your tip.
So, Thanks a lot. Your mere comment made me achieve the thing I've been working towards for months!
How do you prevent water from getting in your ears?
Even I try to exhale from my ears but still it's getting inside of me somehow which makes me to stop doing that! And it's been 1 week and haven't learnt yet!
Put oil in your ears
Ah the joy of being an Open Water swimmer, no turns. I do appreciate the video though, for the sake of my students.