Perhaps there would be interest in a rotating blog--a different swimmer each week posting his or her workouts. This would provide some insight into what various individuals are doing across the country (or around the world for that matter).
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Well I've either been duped by coaches for years or they didn't know how to correctly do a "Tennessee Turn". From watching the video, I've never done a 2 hand touch underwater and then spun around, we always did underwater flip turns.
Here's what I've done for years: At the backstroke flags, do a catch up stroke and in a streamline position do a surface dive on an angle kicking down to the wall, at the "T" flip your turn (about 6 to 5 feet below the surface), then rotate onto your stomach and kick up past the backstroke flags.
I'm thinking the requestors (coaches) of this may be from a certain generation; all the younger coaches I've had (just out of college) never bring it up, instead they have you go half a length underwater off each turn.
Well I've either been duped by coaches for years or they didn't know how to correctly do a "Tennessee Turn". From watching the video, I've never done a 2 hand touch underwater and then spun around, we always did underwater flip turns.
Here's what I've done for years: At the backstroke flags, do a catch up stroke and in a streamline position do a surface dive on an angle kicking down to the wall, at the "T" flip your turn (about 6 to 5 feet below the surface), then rotate onto your stomach and kick up past the backstroke flags.
I'm thinking the requestors (coaches) of this may be from a certain generation; all the younger coaches I've had (just out of college) never bring it up, instead they have you go half a length underwater off each turn.
