So....here's the thing:
I'm actually getting decent at flipturns. I screw a few of them up, but I always know what I did wrong. The ratio of good flips to bad flips keeps going up. But, because there are usually some bad flips along the way, I haven't set any PRs yet when using flips. I'm at 1:25 100m with (some bad) flips, vs 1:22 with decent open-turns. My 50m is hi-39sec vice hi-38sec.
However....
When flipping, of course we are not breathing through the approach, turn, and pushoff. This is not a problem for me in a hard 50m/100m. But in a hard 400m, I'm dying, Man!! The accumulation of not breathing for this period every 25m has me GASPING after 200m. I crave that open-turn breath.
Maybe I will learn to handle this, but I dunno.
Even if you flip well, should you sometimes do open turns because of the oxygen situation?
:) UDK!! That's just not in my swimming yet. But I'll work on it.
The thing is, after pushing off from a flipturn, I'm dying for that first breath.....then consequently, I'm breathing on every stroke towards the next wall.
My open-trurn PR at 200m is 2:59. This morning I gasped my way through 7 (increasingly bad) flips for 3:13. Normal swimmers keep telling me that flips=faster!! Well, I guess I'm the opposite. :) Flips for me = exhaustion. But perhaps I'm doing it all wrong.
:) UDK!! That's just not in my swimming yet. But I'll work on it.
The thing is, after pushing off from a flipturn, I'm dying for that first breath.....then consequently, I'm breathing on every stroke towards the next wall.
My open-trurn PR at 200m is 2:59. This morning I gasped my way through 7 (increasingly bad) flips for 3:13. Normal swimmers keep telling me that flips=faster!! Well, I guess I'm the opposite. :) Flips for me = exhaustion. But perhaps I'm doing it all wrong.
