The Fastest Age

Originally posted by Ion Beza This: is another breaktrough. In the thread 'lefty!', I wrote that good thechnique in flip turn they occupy my mind to the point of slowing me down badly. To make them an asset I need thousands of them. Until then -right now- they are a liability to my speed. You've been swimming for 17 years now, you should have tens of thousands of them under your belt by now. Or have you been avoiding tackling working on them for 17 years? Let me see, you say you train 30K a week, that is 1,560,000 Yards a year, times 17 is 26,520,000, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say, if you only made a flipturn every 50 (yards or metrers) that would make 530,400 flipturns, and if you do one every 25, that would make 1,060,800 flipturns. So, lets take the lower number, 530,400 and take 10% of that, it would amount to 53,040 flipturns. So, if you only dedicated 10% of your training to honing in the flipturns, you would have had tens of thousand of them under your belt. I think you need to get past your flipturn mental block already, get over the bruised ego that can't accept that you may not be superior in something... Use your own term, step up to the plate and tackle honing in your flipturns. As you said, they're the liability to your speed, and I reallt believe that they are much greater liability to your speed then the elusive un-quantifiable VO2max. Also, very accomplished swimmer out there is capable of making a mental switch fro a swim into a flipturn at least every 50 M if not more often. Use that superior mental ability that you claim you have, and practice the flipturns. Don't just talk about it, show us. Do you swim any other strokes or just freestyle? Are you in a mental block about trying the other strokes too? You know, a lot of the other stroke drills actually help your freestyle, in a way that you can't relate to till you actually experience it.

Originally posted by Ion Beza This: is another breaktrough. In the thread 'lefty!', I wrote that good thechnique in flip turn they occupy my mind to the point of slowing me down badly. To make them an asset I need thousands of them. Until then -right now- they are a liability to my speed. You've been swimming for 17 years now, you should have tens of thousands of them under your belt by now. Or have you been avoiding tackling working on them for 17 years? Let me see, you say you train 30K a week, that is 1,560,000 Yards a year, times 17 is 26,520,000, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and say, if you only made a flipturn every 50 (yards or metrers) that would make 530,400 flipturns, and if you do one every 25, that would make 1,060,800 flipturns. So, lets take the lower number, 530,400 and take 10% of that, it would amount to 53,040 flipturns. So, if you only dedicated 10% of your training to honing in the flipturns, you would have had tens of thousand of them under your belt. I think you need to get past your flipturn mental block already, get over the bruised ego that can't accept that you may not be superior in something... Use your own term, step up to the plate and tackle honing in your flipturns. As you said, they're the liability to your speed, and I reallt believe that they are much greater liability to your speed then the elusive un-quantifiable VO2max. Also, very accomplished swimmer out there is capable of making a mental switch fro a swim into a flipturn at least every 50 M if not more often. Use that superior mental ability that you claim you have, and practice the flipturns. Don't just talk about it, show us. Do you swim any other strokes or just freestyle? Are you in a mental block about trying the other strokes too? You know, a lot of the other stroke drills actually help your freestyle, in a way that you can't relate to till you actually experience it.