I am wondering if there are ways you can get hurt doing flip turns. I have done them (slowly) and I am carefull not to hit my legs on the pool edge. I will say they are not (underlined) as easy to do as many swimmers make it look! Especially if you are coming into the wall at any speed!
I can understand world class swimmers getting every edge but other then show offing ..do lap swimmers really need to do this?
Tips on flips Please ?
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I had another thought for Peggy... But first, sorry for calling you "he/she" earlier. I'm not accustomed to this board's software yet and didn't see your name over there on the left.
I seemed to recall seeing some videos posted here of world class swimmers swimming different strokes while being recorded by an underwater camera. They take a while to download, but they're interesting to watch, so I went looking for them:
http://www.swim.ee/
There are two short underwater clips there of Ian Thorpe flipping, one in slow motion so that you can analyze his movements. The angle isn't the greatest, but it may be of use to you.
Anybody know of any other video like this on the web?
I had another thought for Peggy... But first, sorry for calling you "he/she" earlier. I'm not accustomed to this board's software yet and didn't see your name over there on the left.
I seemed to recall seeing some videos posted here of world class swimmers swimming different strokes while being recorded by an underwater camera. They take a while to download, but they're interesting to watch, so I went looking for them:
http://www.swim.ee/
There are two short underwater clips there of Ian Thorpe flipping, one in slow motion so that you can analyze his movements. The angle isn't the greatest, but it may be of use to you.
Anybody know of any other video like this on the web?
