The Fastest Age

Originally posted by SWinkleblech My five year old daughter just the other day told me to watch her and she did a backstroke flip turn. She learned this just by watching me do it in my workouts. No one ever taught her. Yet a member of my masters team as trouble even thinking about learning to do the backstroke flipturn. She was never taught how to do it when she was younger. She quit swimming before the backstroke flip turn was allowed in swimming. Now that she has returned to swimming she says she sticking with the way she knows how. I think this would give the "late-bloomer a disadvantage" along with a million other factors that have been mentioned in this never ending thread. I taught the flipturns to myself, by seeing couple of peple doing it, and by feeling my way through. At 33 years old. Few weeks ago at the starts and turns clinic, to my complete amazement, my coach picked me out of the crowd to show the other people people how a flipturn is supposed to be done. I was floored! If it wasn't at the bottom of the pool, my chin would have dropped on the floor in surprize. :eek:

Originally posted by SWinkleblech My five year old daughter just the other day told me to watch her and she did a backstroke flip turn. She learned this just by watching me do it in my workouts. No one ever taught her. Yet a member of my masters team as trouble even thinking about learning to do the backstroke flipturn. She was never taught how to do it when she was younger. She quit swimming before the backstroke flip turn was allowed in swimming. Now that she has returned to swimming she says she sticking with the way she knows how. I think this would give the "late-bloomer a disadvantage" along with a million other factors that have been mentioned in this never ending thread. I taught the flipturns to myself, by seeing couple of peple doing it, and by feeling my way through. At 33 years old. Few weeks ago at the starts and turns clinic, to my complete amazement, my coach picked me out of the crowd to show the other people people how a flipturn is supposed to be done. I was floored! If it wasn't at the bottom of the pool, my chin would have dropped on the floor in surprize. :eek: