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
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I actually borrowed the "swimming Faster: Turns for all strokes." DVD from the spma zone library.
The flip turn in the DVD is taught much like the one described in this article.
www.h2oustonswims.org/.../flip_turns.html
I've gotten to where I feel the "U" shaped tube you describe but only when I come off the wall on my back. If I try to pivot and come off on my side I don't come off straight and can even hear the difference underwater.
Right now I am working on the best way to get to my stomach after the push. If I twist as I push, somehow I slow down. Perhaps because I am breaking my streamline. And If I do a slow cork screw it feels akward and it seems to take to long. But at least this is faster by almost a full second.
Last thursday I swam a 50 from the blocks and went 23.50. But I tried to twist to my side off the turn and when I did I felt immediate resistence as I pushed off the wall. And I don't think I came off straight either. My splits were 10.45 and 13.05 (hand timed). The 10.45 is my fastest first 25 since I've been timing myself and getting 25 splits.
My goal is to consistently have less than a second difference between each 25. This has been hard, but I am working on it in every practice.
Kevin
I actually borrowed the "swimming Faster: Turns for all strokes." DVD from the spma zone library.
The flip turn in the DVD is taught much like the one described in this article.
www.h2oustonswims.org/.../flip_turns.html
I've gotten to where I feel the "U" shaped tube you describe but only when I come off the wall on my back. If I try to pivot and come off on my side I don't come off straight and can even hear the difference underwater.
Right now I am working on the best way to get to my stomach after the push. If I twist as I push, somehow I slow down. Perhaps because I am breaking my streamline. And If I do a slow cork screw it feels akward and it seems to take to long. But at least this is faster by almost a full second.
Last thursday I swam a 50 from the blocks and went 23.50. But I tried to twist to my side off the turn and when I did I felt immediate resistence as I pushed off the wall. And I don't think I came off straight either. My splits were 10.45 and 13.05 (hand timed). The 10.45 is my fastest first 25 since I've been timing myself and getting 25 splits.
My goal is to consistently have less than a second difference between each 25. This has been hard, but I am working on it in every practice.
Kevin
