"If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9) - “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16) - “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”(Jeremiah 29:11)
Miraculously, when I was on my school swim team, we all managed to learn flipturns just fine. I always found them fun once I got the hang of it. But even after YEARS of friendly competition (I swam from grades 6-12 and so did many teammates), our coach still made us work on our dives every year. It was so bad that our (very German) coach either yelling “KATASTROPHE” or muttering it in disappointment became a running joke, and one year our team chant was “KATASTROPHE! KATASTROPHE! JaaaaaWOHL!” Good times! :D
I'm a lifeguard, I always get fascinated by the "professional" swimmers at the pool I work at, I always try to stand by the edge when they make the flip-turns xD I was "taught" how to do it some years ago but never used it on my swimming practices so I don't know how to do it. I guess I have to start practicing but it really looks hard doing it.
I have never been able to do a flip turn right. I have always used my hands out to the sides to flip and then had to take time to get them out front. Then last week the coach of my masters swim team said after pulling with your hands down and starting your flip turn your hands over pulling water up driving your head down. I had a little time to practice and think I'm beginning to get it. I noticed both Mark and Heather did this. I am 68 years old and never noticed or heard that before. Great video guys.
Appreciate the video. I swim as part of my fitness routine- a mile at minimum and have been trying to figure out the flip turn because of its efficiency. I’ve watched other videos and made many failed attempts. I appreciate the tidbit about feet at a 45 degree angle. That is what was happening and I shoot off face down. Many videos have swimmers staying face up and that was where I struggled. The pool is shallow at the ends and I’d crash I to the bottom. This works for me! It does take time to get the breathing, but worth it. Thanks.
Using this video as a guide for 3rd attempt. So far water up the nose, toes stubbed off the wall-ooft - and rotating side ways instead of feet over the top of my head! Will keep practicing
My phobia is I'm SO SCARED I'm going to hit the wall with my head! Also when I do the flip I feel like i'm almost out of breath...Even if I've just breathed!!
I have been swimming (on and off) since I was a little kid, and I'm now 31 years old. Yet whenever I lap swim in recent years, I have never enjoyed doing a Flip Turn. Instead, I would just turn myself around, maybe take a quick breath, and then continue my lap. Now that I have been improving my swimming again though and swimming more regularly, I wanted to ensure I am improving. This video was helpful - I was already able to do a "Flip Turn" just naturally if I wanted to, but this showed me a more proper technique and will help me adjust with some practice.
This is actually helpful, as a swimmer myself I find this very helpful cause I’m not the greatest at flip turns 😅, and watching how you guys do it definitely helps, THXSSS
Hi! Just wanna say thank you for this video! I learned to do flip-turn just by watching this video tutorial a few times. I started my swimming lessons last June and I got frustrated with this flip-turn stuff! 😂 I told my coach after a few weeks of trying that "sorry it's not happening!" Lol and he kindly tells me that "it's ok, the beginners don't need to learn this. They just want us to try if we can do it or not. My classmates can do it easily but not me and I don't want to be left out so I simply find a way to learn these. I try to do it while floating on my front and it's been so easy! Later I'll try to do the freestyle with flip turn. 😆
@@techchamp4508 it must be stressed in as tutorial like this though. I learnt flip turns from tutorials and I guess I am lucky to see one that stressed the breathing.
Thanks guys !! I always wanted to do it. Will try it today. Though have failed miserably plenty of times before ! Of all the other reasons I believe flip turn looks very stylish as a swimmer 😎
It is creating one body distance difference when one switches from touch-turn to flip-turn.👌 Thanks for the comparison part at the end of the video and rationale for practicing it even for Open water event preparation. Very useful 👍
Thank you for this video. I just starting learning the flip turn. However, I am having issues with when to blow the bubbles. I am not a competitive swimmer, I just learned but having so much fun learning new things.
Hello, guys! Thank you for another nice video! I love your way of teaching and generally the atmosphere in your videos, have seen almost all of those about swimming. Keep up the great work and have great races!
I was once good at these,but last week I tried one,I'm guessing I went into it too fast and got pretty bad vertigo and left the pool shortly after,any tips to avoid the vertigo?
Thank you so much for showing this video this is my second year on a swim team my first year I couldn’t dive or do a flip turn, but this year which is my second year I can dive now, but still no flip turn. Even though I’m on a swim team I still like triathlons better.
Thanks to both of you, for another great video. I will see if I can master this in the next few months. I suppose its the best time of year to try this. last time I tried I gave up, as I was going to deep after turning. Was I doing something wrong?
Sometimes I do this on accident. It is just the angle you were kicking off at. All you needed was more practice. Also, when this happens, remember that if you hold your streamline, your body will follow the direction of your hands. So to resurface faster just lift your hands to a 45 degree angle.
Hi Heather and Mark, greetings from Vancouver, Canada! Your videos are very articulate, motivating, ad offer great tips. Just getting back to the pool because of a foot injury. Kind of a blessing in disguise. I‘ve missed swimming. I‘m wondering though, I tried doing a flip turn a few years ago (pre-covid), when I was only 56, haha, and I got a bit disorientated. Never had any lessons. Have you got any advice for us older folks? I‘m just wondering if it‘s safe past a certain age, given that your ears and balance change. Cheers!
Clearly, I’m becoming more comfortable after four lessons, because I’m searching for this stuff now! I haven’t swam the length of the pool yet, but I know it’s in my near future, like Monday when I go back! 😬
Thank you so much for talking about what to do with your arms leading into the wall. I never knew what to do with mine and I would end up pulling myself over at an angle. Ugh!
Does anyone else have problems with water going into your ears? As a kid l never had any problems, but now in my 40's l can't swim without earplugs. When practicing for a specific distance race, should l add more lengths because of the push off giving me a little extra help on how far l don't have to use my stroke? Thanks for the excellent tips Heather and Mark and thanks to the crew who always do an excellent job. Your channel is my number one for all things triathlon. When are you going to start selling tri suits with the GTN logo by the way?😁
I wear silicon ear plugs and they work a dream. I also use ear drops from the chemist. They have alcohol as an ingredient and help with pushing water out of your ear. Also jump on one leg holding your head sideways (to the side of the grounded leg) a few times, this also releases the water. Hope you are still swimming. 😊
So I just finished my first season on the swim team (I'm a freshman in highschool) and yeah It was my first time swimming and I pretty much went the whole season not knowing how to do a flipturn but I'm hoping to learn to do one and cut my time by a lot as well before next season
Great video , thank you. One question please , the pools that I frequent have a depth of 3 1/2" at the wall. Is it reasonable to be able to learn to do the flip-turn in that shallow a depth? I'm 6'2" and have always shied away from even trying to do it for fear of smacking my head against the bottom. The pool in the video has to have about a 5-6' depth at the wall , give you lots of room to turn. Your thoughts? Thanks. Al
the difficulty i faced for a long time was just b4 flipping, 1 must hv both hands at their hips. As they flip, cup both hands & push the water over their head. This is easier said than done bec we're accustomed to 1 arm pull, the other arm recovers forward. To prevent the other arm from recovering, at the last stroke, put your hand on your thigh as if holding. When the other hand pulls down, flip your wrist so that both hands are cupped on your lap & pull normally. i had to practice every day for 2 weeks to make this happen naturally!
Hi, swimming junkie here. I just wanted to say you're missing a few steps to explain, like your butterfly kick before you do your somersault at around 1:10. And starting with your arms in front is counter productive towards the motion you set with your butterfly kick.
EucalyptaYukari hi swimming junkie, actually a butterfly kick before the tumble decreases velocity coming into the wall. the proper way would be to simply tuck the chin, this causes the body to flip over whilst maintaining speed
EucalyptaYukari I was wondering if you could help me. I wanna try out for my school swim team but I have no experience. I was thinking about doing private swim classes to learn the strokes and then joining an out of school team over the summer. My school tryouts are in November. I was wondering if you guys could give me tips on how to prepare, what to bring, what strokes I need to know etc. Also my school team is a swim+dive team. Do I really need to know how to dive?
Amita Mungi, Private swim lessons, especially from someone that has swam on some competitive level (even if just high school) would be very beneficial to learn proper technique of all the strokes. Most school teams that I've been familiar with will have a swimmer do every stroke at some point during the season....so you will probably be asked to swim butterfly, breast, back, even if it's only one time in the season. Dive "team" is separate from swim "team." Those on dive teams don't necessarily participate on the swim team and vice versa. However, you will want to learn how to properly dive from the "blocks" at the start of each race. Enjoy.
Tysm! I do competitive swimming and I just sit out during practice when we do this. For meets it is necessary or else the whole team gets disqualified now I need to learn how to dive-😅
I'm surprised it considered disqualified but guess depends on league hope you've gotten flip turn more easy now my first year of swiming 9th grade did nothing but open wall turns haha was slow as hell but still got a time the next year was able to flip turn it Hella awkward being only racer open end turning
You don't say anything about the breathing coming into the turn! This is where I mainly struggle....I can flip turn when swimming easy pace, but at full pelt I need to breath, so how do i do it? Do I just need to sacrifice that last breath and get used to it?
From a swimming perspective you should not breathe the last stroke going in, and the first one coming out from the turn. This will put you in oxygen debt, but significantly increase speed. Get used to it, its worth it.
I will suggest modify your breaths to match your flip turn. By that I mean instead of sacrifice the last breath, modify the breath so that you breathe two strokes or three strokes before the turn. (Instead of doing all breath every 4 stroke, you might do one breath with 3 stroke.) I stop learning swimming in 6th grade and have the issue of running out of breath, but in my case it was because I blow all the air out during the turn. Also do the drills of 3, 5, 7 breath (9 if possible) for 50m. That will help you control your breathing/use of oxygen.
drumfun100 i usually breathe 1 or 2 strokes before the flip starting out and once you’ve really perfected it, it’s worth it to sacrifice that breath as you’ll be more more efficient and fast in the water into and out of the turn
I believe it is essential for triathletes to learn how to do flip-turns, especially if they are racing in the ocean. Flip-turns not only help you maintain pacing and momentum; they discipline you to hold your breath when an unexpected event occurs and not panic. This is especially important when you are swimming into shore, and a sudden wave engulfs you or topples you under.
I am on swim team and I've had the hardest time learning the flip turn. But the most part of this I kind of panic and then breath up and then i flip...and i actually ended up choking really really really bad. and i couldn't breathe
i think basically the same as when you push off the wall from your back during backstroke. You just have to keep the pressure up in your nose or the water will win and come in.
Freakish! I was wondering to do this and low and behold you upload this gem once again thanks. I will of cause endeavour to do this and learn this in my next session
Okay so im a swimmer for about like almost 5 years and i still cant do that salto turn in free style cause im like very scared and i just cant do it, and the thing that makes things worse that almost EVERYONE can do it i never do it swimming free style and when they did this tutorial i actually started feeling better and problaly will try this in a swimming training when no one will see ☠ So yes thank you so much for this even if this was posted 3 years ago :]
I have one question I've been wondering ever since I went to the pool for the first time! Question: HOW THE FLIP DO YOU GUYS SYNCHRONIZE THE MOVEMENTS WHEN Y'ALL SWIM?? AND HOW CAN Y'ALL SWIM AND HOLD YOUR BREATH WHILE MAKING BIG MOVEMENTS?? Pls reply :)
This is interesting and I am going to start practicing tomorrow. You have such great athletic bodies but of course you are athletes. I am struggling with streamlining because my knees are arthritic and I don’t want to use too much force. Anyway, thank you for a well-explained video! 😊😊😊
@@graphics_dev5918 I didn't even know they existed until I saw some people at the pool do it. I've been swimming since I was a kid... -_- I feel useless now
I've been swimming for years, also was a pool and beach lifeguard for years, only realised last weekend that you breath out through your nose when you turn, however you turn, and it stops you feeling like you're going to die. lol I've been holding my breath and breathing out when i come up 🙂 I will be learning to do this to a high level this year. Was suprised the swimming instructor at my local pool doesn't know how to do them. Many thanks for the video.
Yes. Same thing happened to me. The nose hurt so much and the tears come. I tried to breathe out from my nose when I flipped but the water pressure makes it hard to breathe out.
ok, now I am ready to try again, yesterday went bad. I just hate the discomfort of the water entering my nose, it's like I am so focused on trying to flip I forget to blow bubbles through my nose ps: if I become an olympian, I'm mentioning this channel😭😭
Should the swimmer finish the flip facing the ceiling, or should they be rolled about the head-to-toe axis in anticipation of completing the roll into a face-down swimming position? When I do a flip turn, I usually finish the flip with a roll angle of about 45 degrees rather than facing the ceiling. This might be a good thing because it reduces the angle through which I need to roll to get into a face-down swimming position; however, all the step-by-step videos of flip turns that I've seen show the swimmer facing the ceiling after the flip. This seems to be the case for the step-by-step portion of your video, but the portions of the video that show you two swimming in earnest show your bodies rolled about 45 degrees after the flip.
I believe this is an on going argument in swimming community for ages, the goal is to finish the flip turn and get back to freestyle as soon as possible. If the swimmer can do one turn faster than the others, I will suggest going for whichever is fastest to them. That being said, I see 45 degrees more common as your body position is half turn already versus the 90 degree turn. (source: spying on people as a lifeguard.)
I use to compete as a kid and learned to do them at a very young age. Now, decades later, I swim laps for fitness and stopped doing them as I never got the breathing right. Water always go up my nose :-(
Anyone know whether GTN is right in advising we push off the wall at an angle or MySwimPro is right in suggesting we push off the wall face up with head to the sky?
It matters if your technique is not adequete enough. It only took me a day or two to learn how to flip and push off the wall but I didn't start using the turns in my swimming until a couple of days later because in my pools shallow end (3.5ft deep) I kept sinking during the turns so my back would either hit the floor before pushing off or I'd scrape the pool floor on the push off. I didnt want to look like an idiot flipping on one end and pushing off the other lol but I figured it out and only use flipturns when swimming now. When your technique is adequete enough you should be able to flip and land on the wall with your body close enough to the surface that you'd be fine in a 3ft pool.
Ok now I’m ready for the olympics
Velozity Zero go for it!!
I have to do this in swimming class
But I learned to swim on the carpet. The skill is transferable.
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Everytime I see the olympics I always get this burst of energy and determination to become an Olympian 😭😭
Me too
For people who doesn’t know how to breathe while the tumble turn, you just have to breathe out gently :)
Thank you for the tip!
thank you! :)
Yeah i know how to turn but the problem is I'm out of breathe ☠️☠️☠️
Yeah... That noseburn is killing me...
OMG! Thanks a lot Zeus since each pro swimmer tells "this is how we do flip turn man!" but no one mentions about the little but crucial point 😶
Miraculously, when I was on my school swim team, we all managed to learn flipturns just fine. I always found them fun once I got the hang of it. But even after YEARS of friendly competition (I swam from grades 6-12 and so did many teammates), our coach still made us work on our dives every year. It was so bad that our (very German) coach either yelling “KATASTROPHE” or muttering it in disappointment became a running joke, and one year our team chant was “KATASTROPHE! KATASTROPHE! JaaaaaWOHL!” Good times! :D
I don't bother with flip turns. I just break through the wall.
Hulk smash
Oh yeah!!
Omg true sometimes I’m so tired I just go straight through the wall and bash my head
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LOL
I'm a lifeguard, I always get fascinated by the "professional" swimmers at the pool I work at, I always try to stand by the edge when they make the flip-turns xD
I was "taught" how to do it some years ago but never used it on my swimming practices so I don't know how to do it. I guess I have to start practicing but it really looks hard doing it.
I have never been able to do a flip turn right. I have always used my hands out to the sides to flip and then had to take time to get them out front. Then last week the coach of my masters swim team said after pulling with your hands down and starting your flip turn your hands over pulling water up driving your head down. I had a little time to practice and think I'm beginning to get it. I noticed both Mark and Heather did this. I am 68 years old and never noticed or heard that before. Great video guys.
Appreciate the video. I swim as part of my fitness routine- a mile at minimum and have been trying to figure out the flip turn because of its efficiency. I’ve watched other videos and made many failed attempts. I appreciate the tidbit about feet at a 45 degree angle. That is what was happening and I shoot off face down. Many videos have swimmers staying face up and that was where I struggled. The pool is shallow at the ends and I’d crash I to the bottom. This works for me! It does take time to get the breathing, but worth it. Thanks.
Using this video as a guide for 3rd attempt. So far water up the nose, toes stubbed off the wall-ooft - and rotating side ways instead of feet over the top of my head! Will keep practicing
oof
I stopped at this stage when I was 12
Same. I think we have to blow air through nose constantly when on back underwater to keep water out.
My phobia is I'm SO SCARED I'm going to hit the wall with my head! Also when I do the flip I feel like i'm almost out of breath...Even if I've just breathed!!
Just swim a lot more
You don’t turn while you’re on the wall turn a few inches away your legs should reach the wall first
When you know it is the last breath before you flip try to breathe out really slowly so when you finish your flip you still have enough air.
yes，you wear helmet
I'm scared of hitting the wall as well.
I always end up slowing down when I approach the wall so I'm happy never being a competitive swimmer.
I have been swimming (on and off) since I was a little kid, and I'm now 31 years old. Yet whenever I lap swim in recent years, I have never enjoyed doing a Flip Turn. Instead, I would just turn myself around, maybe take a quick breath, and then continue my lap. Now that I have been improving my swimming again though and swimming more regularly, I wanted to ensure I am improving. This video was helpful - I was already able to do a "Flip Turn" just naturally if I wanted to, but this showed me a more proper technique and will help me adjust with some practice.
Great tip when she mentioned: it should be like your sitting in a chair facing the ceiling when your legs are on the wall. Outstanding video.
4:51 Why on earth have you cut it right at the point where the difference can really be seen?
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This is actually helpful, as a swimmer myself I find this very helpful cause I’m not the greatest at flip turns 😅, and watching how you guys do it definitely helps, THXSSS
OMG ARMY
I am 80 y/o. I learned to flip at age 70. I swim for fitness and would not like to swim without flipping.
Hi! Just wanna say thank you for this video! I learned to do flip-turn just by watching this video tutorial a few times. I started my swimming lessons last June and I got frustrated with this flip-turn stuff! 😂 I told my coach after a few weeks of trying that "sorry it's not happening!" Lol and he kindly tells me that "it's ok, the beginners don't need to learn this. They just want us to try if we can do it or not. My classmates can do it easily but not me and I don't want to be left out so I simply find a way to learn these. I try to do it while floating on my front and it's been so easy! Later I'll try to do the freestyle with flip turn. 😆
You didn't stress on the importance of breathing out while doing the turn, else most beginners would just load a bagful of water in their lungs ! 😂
She mentioned it at 2:46
@@Tsapalipricky she didn't emphasise it. It is so key to this turn else you won't like it
Flip turns are not a beginner level, breathing is learnt way ahead of flip turn, so there you go... learn breathing first and then go for FT.
@@techchamp4508 it must be stressed in as tutorial like this though. I learnt flip turns from tutorials and I guess I am lucky to see one that stressed the breathing.
Abhishek Kaushik tell me about it 🤣
Thanks guys !! I always wanted to do it. Will try it today. Though have failed miserably plenty of times before ! Of all the other reasons I believe flip turn looks very stylish as a swimmer 😎
Now if I could just do this without getting 4 gallons of water up my giant nose!
Breath out slowly through your nose the whole time
^ emphasis on slowly... I always manage blowing all/ most my air out and feel like I’m dying after the turn
I’ll do one large exhale on the flip then use the rest on the kick off the wall. It’s helped me tons to not swallow water.
Just make sure you are breathing out the WHOLE time.
@@shilohgilbert9770 wish i’ve seen you’re comment last week
The tip about your feet being at a 45 degree angle is really helpful. I’m going to keep practicing the landing
It is creating one body distance difference when one switches from touch-turn to flip-turn.👌 Thanks for the comparison part at the end of the video and rationale for practicing it even for Open water event preparation. Very useful 👍
Thank you for this video. I just starting learning the flip turn. However, I am having issues with when to blow the bubbles. I am not a competitive swimmer, I just learned but having so much fun learning new things.
ty so much i hve a swim meet coming up and this vid helped me understand flipturns to improve my time
Really clear explanation- thanks! I am going to start practicing flip turns (finally) this week.
Hello, guys! Thank you for another nice video! I love your way of teaching and generally the atmosphere in your videos, have seen almost all of those about swimming. Keep up the great work and have great races!
I was once good at these,but last week I tried one,I'm guessing I went into it too fast and got pretty bad vertigo and left the pool shortly after,any tips to avoid the vertigo?
Avoid flip turning nd do a open turn
Thank you so much for showing this video this is my second year on a swim team my first year I couldn’t dive or do a flip turn, but this year which is my second year I can dive now, but still no flip turn. Even though I’m on a swim team I still like triathlons better.
Amber Kennedy what year of middle or high school are you
Sophomore
I’ve been a swimmer for 2 years, but I just have trouble doing this. Thank you
Thanks to both of you, for another great video. I will see if I can master this in the next few months. I suppose its the best time of year to try this. last time I tried I gave up, as I was going to deep after turning. Was I doing something wrong?
Sometimes I do this on accident. It is just the angle you were kicking off at. All you needed was more practice. Also, when this happens, remember that if you hold your streamline, your body will follow the direction of your hands. So to resurface faster just lift your hands to a 45 degree angle.
Paul Cartridge if you breath out too much you sink
I wished to learn flip turn from long time back.Thanks for nice video now i will try it hope i could just make it up
Hi Heather and Mark, greetings from Vancouver, Canada! Your videos are very articulate, motivating, ad offer great tips. Just getting back to the pool because of a foot injury. Kind of a blessing in disguise. I‘ve missed swimming. I‘m wondering though, I tried doing a flip turn a few years ago (pre-covid), when I was only 56, haha, and I got a bit disorientated. Never had any lessons. Have you got any advice for us older folks? I‘m just wondering if it‘s safe past a certain age, given that your ears and balance change. Cheers!
Heather - you are elite level at these. Was swimming your best event in pentathlon?
Thanks guys, great explanation, it was also nice to the that the video was shot at my alma mater. Go team Bath!
Delighted to see your video thanks a mill - I keep getting water up my nose so I'm gonna try those tips
Thank you I’ve been having trouble with this in my swimming lessons!😁
I'm dreading trying to practice this at the Lane swimming at the local pool. I've only just started swimming regularly and want to get better.
Clearly, I’m becoming more comfortable after four lessons, because I’m searching for this stuff now! I haven’t swam the length of the pool yet, but I know it’s in my near future, like Monday when I go back! 😬
What sets me back is the disorientation and water up the nose but I'll give this a try. Thanks!
I did it! Thanks for the tips! Can i ask how to avoid going too deep into the bottom when flipping?
Thanks for the Videos! I've been training for my first TRI and I'm so excited! Thank you for all ya'll do!
When I am tired, I scream underwater after my flip to dump my lungs before breathing. My colleagues in the pool are surprised to hear something.
I think i can do it now... the explanation is very good. Thanks
I swear this video never gets old.
Thank you so much for talking about what to do with your arms leading into the wall. I never knew what to do with mine and I would end up pulling myself over at an angle. Ugh!
Does anyone else have problems with water going into your ears? As a kid l never had any problems, but now in my 40's l can't swim without earplugs. When practicing for a specific distance race, should l add more lengths because of the push off giving me a little extra help on how far l don't have to use my stroke? Thanks for the excellent tips Heather and Mark and thanks to the crew who always do an excellent job. Your channel is my number one for all things triathlon. When are you going to start selling tri suits with the GTN logo by the way?😁
Wear cap, water 💧💦💧 will not enter, few water which enter can be removed at the end of swimming by just bending u r head n tapping
I wear silicon ear plugs and they work a dream. I also use ear drops from the chemist. They have alcohol as an ingredient and help with pushing water out of your ear. Also jump on one leg holding your head sideways (to the side of the grounded leg) a few times, this also releases the water. Hope you are still swimming. 😊
It's about time! I'd been doing it wrong my whole life
Heather is looking stronger! 💪🏽 Thank you guys for an awesome vid.
So I just finished my first season on the swim team (I'm a freshman in highschool) and yeah It was my first time swimming and I pretty much went the whole season not knowing how to do a flipturn but I'm hoping to learn to do one and cut my time by a lot as well before next season
Off subject question, Heather I love the watch you are wearing on this video... what kind is it?
Great video , thank you. One question please , the pools that I frequent have a depth of 3 1/2" at the wall. Is it reasonable to be able to learn to do the flip-turn in that shallow a depth? I'm 6'2" and have always shied away from even trying to do it for fear of smacking my head against the bottom. The pool in the video has to have about a 5-6' depth at the wall , give you lots of room to turn. Your thoughts? Thanks. Al
the difficulty i faced for a long time was just b4 flipping, 1 must hv both hands at their hips. As they flip, cup both hands & push the water over their head. This is easier said than done bec we're accustomed to 1 arm pull, the other arm recovers forward. To prevent the other arm from recovering, at the last stroke, put your hand on your thigh as if holding. When the other hand pulls down, flip your wrist so that both hands are cupped on your lap & pull normally. i had to practice every day for 2 weeks to make this happen naturally!
lol... you guys were so young!! keep up the good work you're amazing
Very helpful, thank you!
Very good explained. I will try asap
Hi, swimming junkie here. I just wanted to say you're missing a few steps to explain, like your butterfly kick before you do your somersault at around 1:10. And starting with your arms in front is counter productive towards the motion you set with your butterfly kick.
EucalyptaYukari hi swimming junkie, actually a butterfly kick before the tumble decreases velocity coming into the wall. the proper way would be to simply tuck the chin, this causes the body to flip over whilst maintaining speed
EucalyptaYukari I was wondering if you could help me. I wanna try out for my school swim team but I have no experience. I was thinking about doing private swim classes to learn the strokes and then joining an out of school team over the summer. My school tryouts are in November. I was wondering if you guys could give me tips on how to prepare, what to bring, what strokes I need to know etc. Also my school team is a swim+dive team. Do I really need to know how to dive?
Amita Mungi, Private swim lessons, especially from someone that has swam on some competitive level (even if just high school) would be very beneficial to learn proper technique of all the strokes. Most school teams that I've been familiar with will have a swimmer do every stroke at some point during the season....so you will probably be asked to swim butterfly, breast, back, even if it's only one time in the season. Dive "team" is separate from swim "team." Those on dive teams don't necessarily participate on the swim team and vice versa. However, you will want to learn how to properly dive from the "blocks" at the start of each race. Enjoy.
Tysm! I do competitive swimming and I just sit out during practice when we do this. For meets it is necessary or else the whole team gets disqualified now I need to learn how to dive-😅
I'm surprised it considered disqualified but guess depends on league hope you've gotten flip turn more easy now my first year of swiming 9th grade did nothing but open wall turns haha was slow as hell but still got a time the next year was able to flip turn it Hella awkward being only racer open end turning
thank you, this will help me so much!!!!!
Good job you two, that was fun to watch and super informative.
Flip turns also are good because they just increase the amount of muscles used and can actually help with leg // core // ankle activation.
You don't say anything about the breathing coming into the turn! This is where I mainly struggle....I can flip turn when swimming easy pace, but at full pelt I need to breath, so how do i do it? Do I just need to sacrifice that last breath and get used to it?
From a swimming perspective you should not breathe the last stroke going in, and the first one coming out from the turn. This will put you in oxygen debt, but significantly increase speed. Get used to it, its worth it.
I will suggest modify your breaths to match your flip turn. By that I mean instead of sacrifice the last breath, modify the breath so that you breathe two strokes or three strokes before the turn. (Instead of doing all breath every 4 stroke, you might do one breath with 3 stroke.) I stop learning swimming in 6th grade and have the issue of running out of breath, but in my case it was because I blow all the air out during the turn. Also do the drills of 3, 5, 7 breath (9 if possible) for 50m. That will help you control your breathing/use of oxygen.
drumfun100 i usually breathe 1 or 2 strokes before the flip starting out and once you’ve really perfected it, it’s worth it to sacrifice that breath as you’ll be more more efficient and fast in the water into and out of the turn
@@michaelfu5083 9?!! I get exhausted even if I just do a 3 stroke-1 breathe thing.
I like your viedeos very much！ thank you sharing.
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wht does that mean?
Thanks for this! Gonna try and master this in the pool tomorrow
I believe it is essential for triathletes to learn how to do flip-turns, especially if they are racing in the ocean. Flip-turns not only help you maintain pacing and momentum; they discipline you to hold your breath when an unexpected event occurs and not panic. This is especially important when you are swimming into shore, and a sudden wave engulfs you or topples you under.
I have just looked for a video to get some tips on how to improve my flip turns a couple of days ago! You GTN read in my mind!!
Super helpful and clear tips!
I am on swim team and I've had the hardest time learning the flip turn. But the most part of this I kind of panic and then breath up and then i flip...and i actually ended up choking really really really bad. and i couldn't breathe
How to control breath during flip turn? Can you make some videos for this?
i think basically the same as when you push off the wall from your back during backstroke. You just have to keep the pressure up in your nose or the water will win and come in.
Freakish! I was wondering to do this and low and behold you upload this gem once again thanks. I will of cause endeavour to do this and learn this in my next session
Very very useful tip
Okay so im a swimmer for about like almost 5 years and i still cant do that salto turn in free style cause im like very scared and i just cant do it, and the thing that makes things worse that almost EVERYONE can do it i never do it swimming free style and when they did this tutorial i actually started feeling better and problaly will try this in a swimming training when no one will see ☠
So yes thank you so much for this even if this was posted 3 years ago :]
Same
Flip turn is just so Cool!!
Any videos planned for how to do a lane change during a flip turn? I have a sprint tri that has swimmers zig zag between all the lanes on the pool
Great video ☺️ thank you
I have one question I've been wondering ever since I went to the pool for the first time!
Question: HOW THE FLIP DO YOU GUYS SYNCHRONIZE THE MOVEMENTS WHEN Y'ALL SWIM?? AND HOW CAN Y'ALL SWIM AND HOLD YOUR BREATH WHILE MAKING BIG MOVEMENTS??
Pls reply :)
uhm- lets say we are half dolphins half fish and half butterflys morphed together your welcome:))
practice
Thank you so much my swimming carnival is tommorow
My biggest flex is I learnt this when I was 8 and it’s was perfect 👌🏽🥱
This is interesting and I am going to start practicing tomorrow. You have such great athletic bodies but of course you are athletes. I am struggling with streamlining because my knees are arthritic and I don’t want to use too much force. Anyway, thank you for a well-explained video! 😊😊😊
How do you judge the flip, if it’s not makers at the bottom of the pool, how can you build up continuous bubbles, I run out of bubbles
practice holding breath try to hold your breath for 1 minute then rest for 90 seconds and repeat it
Great video.
Thanks, now time to practice
I've been swimming for 13 years. Why am I even here?
Because you can't do a flip turn?
@@graphics_dev5918 haha, I can. I just stumbled into the rabbit hole ig
I've swam for 6 years and I still cant keep my hands by my body for a flip turn lmao
@@graphics_dev5918 I didn't even know they existed until I saw some people at the pool do it. I've been swimming since I was a kid... -_- I feel useless now
I've been swimming for years, also was a pool and beach lifeguard for years, only realised last weekend that you breath out through your nose when you turn, however you turn, and it stops you feeling like you're going to die. lol I've been holding my breath and breathing out when i come up 🙂 I will be learning to do this to a high level this year. Was suprised the swimming instructor at my local pool doesn't know how to do them. Many thanks for the video.
Only problem is my nose pain after flip 🥽
You need to release the air from your nose while flipping
Yes. Same thing happened to me. The nose hurt so much and the tears come. I tried to breathe out from my nose when I flipped but the water pressure makes it hard to breathe out.
ok, now I am ready to try again, yesterday went bad. I just hate the discomfort of the water entering my nose, it's like I am so focused on trying to flip I forget to blow bubbles through my nose
ps: if I become an olympian, I'm mentioning this channel😭😭
Superb
Thank you it helped 😊😀
This is good one... But all pools doesn't have those T marks. How to figure when to flip turn in pools not having T marks?
A good way to swim without the T is to count your strokes 🙂
Instead of keeping the arms horizontal and immobile would it not be optimum to help the turning with a rotation of at least one arm ?
Can you please upload more swim gear hacks
Fantastic. Thank you!
curious. i could swear i learned this in a corkscrew motion many moons ago, so you're turned the right way before pushing off the wall again.
Should the swimmer finish the flip facing the ceiling, or should they be rolled about the head-to-toe axis in anticipation of completing the roll into a face-down swimming position?
When I do a flip turn, I usually finish the flip with a roll angle of about 45 degrees rather than facing the ceiling. This might be a good thing because it reduces the angle through which I need to roll to get into a face-down swimming position; however, all the step-by-step videos of flip turns that I've seen show the swimmer facing the ceiling after the flip. This seems to be the case for the step-by-step portion of your video, but the portions of the video that show you two swimming in earnest show your bodies rolled about 45 degrees after the flip.
I believe this is an on going argument in swimming community for ages, the goal is to finish the flip turn and get back to freestyle as soon as possible. If the swimmer can do one turn faster than the others, I will suggest going for whichever is fastest to them. That being said, I see 45 degrees more common as your body position is half turn already versus the 90 degree turn. (source: spying on people as a lifeguard.)
push off on your back and rotate to your front as you leave
Yes it is much faster to push off your back and then flip while kicking off the wall
Definitely push off on your back and rotate in the underwater phase. This is much quicker.
I use to compete as a kid and learned to do them at a very young age. Now, decades later, I swim laps for fitness and stopped doing them as I never got the breathing right. Water always go up my nose :-(
Nose clip
Breath out when flipping
Is doing a flip turn in the pool the best training for open water swim though? Wouldn’t it be better just the touch and maximize stroke#
Anyone know whether GTN is right in advising we push off the wall at an angle or MySwimPro is right in suggesting we push off the wall face up with head to the sky?
Does it matter how deep the pool is to do it? Or is it ok to practice in a 3ft pool?
It matters if your technique is not adequete enough. It only took me a day or two to learn how to flip and push off the wall but I didn't start using the turns in my swimming until a couple of days later because in my pools shallow end (3.5ft deep) I kept sinking during the turns so my back would either hit the floor before pushing off or I'd scrape the pool floor on the push off. I didnt want to look like an idiot flipping on one end and pushing off the other lol but I figured it out and only use flipturns when swimming now. When your technique is adequete enough you should be able to flip and land on the wall with your body close enough to the surface that you'd be fine in a 3ft pool.
Where was this when I needed it
I got it my 3rd try learning it today
Is there a benefit to learning and using flip turns in training if your only concerned with open water swimming?
hollo,
is it illegal to perform a dolphin kick before initiating the flip turn?
Since its freestyle you are allowed to do anything:)