Dizzying flip turns

Maybe you're running out of breath? Make sure you get enough air before your turn and don't exhale it all, you need to save some for the push-off. Try doing a normal flip in the water, do you get dizzy then too? If not, find out what you're doing differently.

I also tried flip turns. But I do get dizzy . So I stopped trying. But I had never did flip turns. Although I would still like to learn , how to do them.:) :cool: :)

To read an article and watch a video on flip turns, go to this link and read the article. Also, click on the top link to watch the video. www.goswim.tv/drilloftheweek_comments.php

your inner ear isn't use to the sensation, that is what causes you to feel dizzy. When I started doing them again a couple of years ago I got dizzy too. Practice doing flips, not the turns... your inner ear will eventually get use to you turning over and over.

Do you leave your eyes open as you flip around? I don't. I don't think I could. And if I did, I'd probably get dizzy too. (I'm feeling dizzy just thinking about it.)

If I don't leave my eyes open when I flip, I wobble over to my left instead of going straight over. Sometimes not having both the visual and propreoceptive feed back is what causes the icky feeling. Your brain is feeling the flip (or whatever movement) but isn't getting the same information from the eyes. But, it is, of course, whatever works for you.

Originally posted by auto208562 To read an article and watch a video on flip turns, go to this link and read the article. Also, click on the top link to watch the video. www.goswim.tv/drilloftheweek_comments.php I just watched this video. This guy does really smooth flip turns and gets great distance of the wall. Here's a thought: take a couple days during the week and for the last 30 minutes of your normal workout, practice just flipping over and over, doing what this guy does in the video. Its a little like water play but the result, I predict, will be a greater comfort level (in your brain) with the phenomenon of the flip. We did these drills when I was an age group swimmer, usually as we tapered for SC or LC championships, to make sure we were sharp on the technical aspects of our swims (missing the wall in a 50 or 100 free means no finals for Freddy!). After 20 years of almost no swimming, the first flip turn I did felt as normal as walking to the pool, except for the sensation of the expanded mid-section. Good luck.

I found that focusing on a single point helps. I look at the wall, right between the knees where I am going to plant my feet.

Originally posted by Fred Johnson I just watched this video. This guy does really smooth flip turns and gets great distance of the wall. Here's a thought: take a couple days during the week and for the last 30 minutes of your normal workout, practice just flipping over and over, doing what this guy does in the video. Its a little like water play but the result, I predict, will be a greater comfort level (in your brain) with the phenomenon of the flip. Oh yeah - the man in that video is AWESOME! I can only dream of doing his flip turns... I totally agree that practice will help. I've never been a great flipper :D but for the past few weeks, I've been adding more and more flip turns into my swims and I'm getting faster and less dizzy. Who knows what they look like from above, but no one has pointed and laughed at me just yet. :p

I've posted this before so forgive me for the repeat, but if you missed it in another thread I thought you might like to see it again. Every now and then I'll get in to swim and just don't feel like swimming a workout... for a better word I want a playout. Because I think flip turns are fun I do this playout for those times I don't want to work (ha ha, don't kid yourself) Start at mid pool, swim to the wall, flip, streamline and GLIDE as far as you can. From the spot where you stop, swim to the wall, flip, streamline and glide as far as you can. Repeat and repeat and repeat and repeat trying to get more and more distance on your glide by concentrating on a good flip and streamline. Then when you get tired of that, swim to one end or the other and sprint 50. Repeat, from beginning of playout. Occasionally switch ends of the pool so you are getting flip practice in both the deep and shallow ends. Then do the same playout, but practice your backstroke flip turn. Don't forget to throw in some underwater dolphin after the turn for added fun. As a warm down I usually do a lap of summersaults... swim for a few strokes, do a complete flip mid lane, swim for a few strokes, do a complete flip, etc until you reach the other end of the lane (now THAT makes me dizzy)