All the other transitions seem pretty straight-forward to me, and I think I get off the wall pretty quickly on those, but for some reason I feel like I'm hanging on the wall too long on the back-to-*** and I just know I'm doing something wrong.
Should I be facing the opposite wall when i let go of the wall? or is facing the side ok?
Anyone have a trick or a technique for getting feet on the wall quickly?
Any help or advice you all can give is greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys!
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Hard to explain in words...Can't do any better than a video...
But here was the key for me:
As your reaching with you hand for the wall, you'll be rotating on your side (but your shoulders are NOT past the vertical so as to be on or toward your stomach.)
That leading shoulder will be high and you will be facing one side wall of the pool (see the girl facing the camera at the 2 second mark.)
After doing your flip, you'll be pushing off on your side facing the opposite side of the pool (see the 3 second mark.)
And as you push off you make sure to keep twisting so that when your feet leave the wall your shoulders ARE past the vertical (so you are NOT on or toward your back.)
BTW, both of these swimmers did the same turn:)
Good luck
Thanks for those videos - what I have been doing resembles neither one of those. I wish I knew the term for what I've been doing - i've been leaning into the wall with whichever hand touches first, grabbing the gutter, pulling myself into the wall, somehow getting my feet on the wall, dropping down onto my opposite side and pushing off. I guess I'd call it an open turn. All I know is that it completely destoys my momentum and it's incredibly slow
At the very least, I've learned from these videos that the hand touches underwater and stays there. The female swimmer is doing something that I can't quite figure out. The male swimmer's technique looks closer to what I have been doing so maybe I'll use that as my model.
THanks for posting these videos - I'll study them to see what I can emulate.
Any advice that could talk me through the steps would be most appreciated
Thanks everybody
Hard to explain in words...Can't do any better than a video...
But here was the key for me:
As your reaching with you hand for the wall, you'll be rotating on your side (but your shoulders are NOT past the vertical so as to be on or toward your stomach.)
That leading shoulder will be high and you will be facing one side wall of the pool (see the girl facing the camera at the 2 second mark.)
After doing your flip, you'll be pushing off on your side facing the opposite side of the pool (see the 3 second mark.)
And as you push off you make sure to keep twisting so that when your feet leave the wall your shoulders ARE past the vertical (so you are NOT on or toward your back.)
BTW, both of these swimmers did the same turn:)
Good luck
Thanks for those videos - what I have been doing resembles neither one of those. I wish I knew the term for what I've been doing - i've been leaning into the wall with whichever hand touches first, grabbing the gutter, pulling myself into the wall, somehow getting my feet on the wall, dropping down onto my opposite side and pushing off. I guess I'd call it an open turn. All I know is that it completely destoys my momentum and it's incredibly slow
At the very least, I've learned from these videos that the hand touches underwater and stays there. The female swimmer is doing something that I can't quite figure out. The male swimmer's technique looks closer to what I have been doing so maybe I'll use that as my model.
THanks for posting these videos - I'll study them to see what I can emulate.
Any advice that could talk me through the steps would be most appreciated
Thanks everybody
