Hi, I'm having trouble with the freestyle tumble turn.
My freestyle is okay - not too slow but not amazing. However, I am absolutely horrible at the turns. I can't seem to get enough momentum for the turns. I can't turn fast enough, and thus the turn is very sloppy, always ending up with me somehow staring at my feet when my body's underwater after the turn and my upper body too low in the water. I've watched some really good turners turn with absolute ease - mind you, I can swim faster than some of them, and some of them just seem to glide into their turns with no speed at all, but they build up huge momentum during the turn, finishing the turn with their legs almost straight and very far away from the wall, but still be able to get a good pushoff that's not deep at all.
So, how do I get my tumble turn to work? How can I turn fast enough and with my legs relatively straight? When I turn by umping off the floor of the shallow end I turn like the good turners, but when I swim into the wall I can't turn anymore, which leads me to believe that I'm not getting enough momentum.
Great advice and descriptions from everyone on the turns.
i could use some help on mine as well.. :)
Most of the time my turns are decent and I've got the fliping to my back and pushing off before starting to twist ok, but I still have those embarassing brainfart instances where I will start the turn too early and go to push only to find no wall there!
D'OH!!
Is there any specific way to guard against this? I try to keep my head looking for the wall when I come into it to gage my distance, but sometimes I'm at a point where I feel if I take one more stroke I'll be too close, (which happens sometimes too), and so I turn a bit early or have to coast for a second until I reach the correct distance.
What do others do to keep this from happening? Or am I the dork that everyone else is laughing at when they see that happen? I know at least my old coach got a kick out of it a couple of times!
lol!
:rolleyes:
Great advice and descriptions from everyone on the turns.
i could use some help on mine as well.. :)
Most of the time my turns are decent and I've got the fliping to my back and pushing off before starting to twist ok, but I still have those embarassing brainfart instances where I will start the turn too early and go to push only to find no wall there!
D'OH!!
Is there any specific way to guard against this? I try to keep my head looking for the wall when I come into it to gage my distance, but sometimes I'm at a point where I feel if I take one more stroke I'll be too close, (which happens sometimes too), and so I turn a bit early or have to coast for a second until I reach the correct distance.
What do others do to keep this from happening? Or am I the dork that everyone else is laughing at when they see that happen? I know at least my old coach got a kick out of it a couple of times!
lol!
:rolleyes:
