I have officially given up trying to do a flip turn on my 50 Back. I was DQ'd this past weekend as I tried to turn over, flip and push off. I DQ'd because my feet couldn't find the wall and I just kinda floated there for a second, did a double arm pull, and went on my merry way. This has occurred at every meet so far, and I'm over it.
I noticed a lot of folks were doing open turns for their backstroke. I tried to find some videos online to show this, but I couldn't. Can someone explain to me how to properly perform an open turn for backstroke? I can do the back-to-*** turn just fine, so I'm guessing that back-to-back is kinda the same, except instead of pushing off on your belly, you push off on your back.
I have a lot of problems judging distance (always have, even as a kid...I used to run into a lot of walls when I figure skated), and this seems to have been the problem with swimming as well. Thanks ahead for any advice.
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I "retired" before the advent of the backstroke flip turn. I learned it by watching Natalie Coughlin's NCAA underwaters over and over on my DVR.
On the rare occasions that I compete, I spend the last week or two leading up to the meet swimming back at race pace and making sure I only take 1 stroke to get myself over and none after I'm on my stomach. It worked the first time I raced Masters -- I swam every distance of back and didn't get DQ'd.
Now that I'm working out with a team again, I've been focusing on doing legal turns ALL the time.
I "retired" before the advent of the backstroke flip turn. I learned it by watching Natalie Coughlin's NCAA underwaters over and over on my DVR.
On the rare occasions that I compete, I spend the last week or two leading up to the meet swimming back at race pace and making sure I only take 1 stroke to get myself over and none after I'm on my stomach. It worked the first time I raced Masters -- I swam every distance of back and didn't get DQ'd.
Now that I'm working out with a team again, I've been focusing on doing legal turns ALL the time.
