I just started Masters swimming and competed at my first meet at Colonies Zone in April with VMST. It was my first swim meet EVER and I was glad I just made it through my races. My times were SLOW - but that for another thread!
I think I need to learn how to do a flip turn - especially for backstroke and freestyle because 1) I think I look too goofy being one of a FEW swimmers who is still swimming to the wall and touching and 2) I think it would help my times a bit.
Problem is, I am still twisted after my feet hit the wall. Should I just not try them or try them and potentially get DQed - or just looking bad?
www.GoSwim.tv has an excellent video series broken into steps to learn flip turns!
This is how I learned to do them! :-), & I'm still working on getting better at them (having my coach video me in early June, & pointing out that I was flipping too close to the wall, for instance). I think, as in a lot in swimming, it's "Accuracy, then Speed".
