Can anybody tell me what is the correct position for me to have my head/face whilst exhaling during bilateral breathing.On the third stroke I am trying to wait until I feel my fingers enter the water before I exhale and then move my head to the side to breathe in.:cool:
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laineybug,
About exhaling during the flipturn...
What I do, I time my last breath intake just a stoke before getting into the flipturn, I hold my breath (or exhale just very very lightly) just a split second till I start the flipturn and my head starts going up-side down, I give it one quick exhaling burst, just to force out the water trying to get in my nose. Using maybe 152-20% of the air in my lungs, then as I'm twisting in a normal freestyle position, I continue to exhale at the normal rate.
It takes some practice to get the feel for how much air you have, and how fast you're exhaling and how much you have left.
Does your coach ever have you guys do the breath control pulling drills? Where you breath on 3's, 5's or 7's? Those are good to teach you to ration the air and the exhaling.
lol, what coach? Yes, I do the breathe on 3, 5, 7, 9, etc until I die.
Yep I breathe just before the turn too, but have been trying to learn to breathe outside or right at the flags.
And you are right it does take some practice and fiddling around with how much you can exhale during the flip to make your air last long enough.
Thanks, Lainey
