Flip turn questions

Lately I have been really working hard to improve my turns and I have a few questions about a fast sprint freestyle turn. 1. On the push off you to initiate the rotation onto your belly with your feet or by pushing off straight and twisting your upper body? 2. Does it matter what side you rotate to? For example if you are right handed rotate to your left? 3. Where should your arms be for the best streamline. Covering the ears or slightly behind? 4. How deep should you be when you push off? The center of the "+" on the wall? 5. How do you roll to get a deeper push off? Thanks for any help or advice given. KEvin Kevin, 1. Push off the wall on your back & then rotate while in your streamline. 2. Doesn't matter. Do what's most comfortable for you. 3. "They" say squeeze head between arms. To me that translates to arms over ears.. I think, in part, it's a flexability issue. 4. Depth... can't say. Try to aim feet for the cross. You don't want to be deep, but you don't want to be grzing the surface either. 5. Controlling the push depends on where you put your feet & how you position underwater as you push off. Try to get arms SL asap and you can use your hands to direct your body, like a rudder. I'm having a hard time explaining this. Maybe someone else can do better. Hope it helps. Dana

Lately I have been really working hard to improve my turns and I have a few questions about a fast sprint freestyle turn. 1. On the push off you to initiate the rotation onto your belly with your feet or by pushing off straight and twisting your upper body? 2. Does it matter what side you rotate to? For example if you are right handed rotate to your left? 3. Where should your arms be for the best streamline. Covering the ears or slightly behind? 4. How deep should you be when you push off? The center of the "+" on the wall? 5. How do you roll to get a deeper push off? Thanks for any help or advice given. KEvin Kevin, 1. Push off the wall on your back & then rotate while in your streamline. 2. Doesn't matter. Do what's most comfortable for you. 3. "They" say squeeze head between arms. To me that translates to arms over ears.. I think, in part, it's a flexability issue. 4. Depth... can't say. Try to aim feet for the cross. You don't want to be deep, but you don't want to be grzing the surface either. 5. Controlling the push depends on where you put your feet & how you position underwater as you push off. Try to get arms SL asap and you can use your hands to direct your body, like a rudder. I'm having a hard time explaining this. Maybe someone else can do better. Hope it helps. Dana