I bought a Finis snorkel a few years back but I just do not enjoy swimming with it. I find I hold my breath more per 25 than I do in an underwater or hypoxic 25. I haven't even tried doing a flip turn with it yet.
Anyone else go through a similar adjustment phase when they started working with their snorkel? How did you get used to it?
Why in the world would anyone want to use a snorkel. Can it be used in a race??
Will it really help you??
Snorkles are about as useless as swim paddles, kickboards, or fins.
Gotta love fuddy-duddy statements. Sure, throw all that stuff in the trash, along with those newfangled "computer" things all the kids are using. Cell phones too; a string and two paper cups was just fine back in the day.
I agree with the last statement but probably not the way you intended. All that equipment can be useful as training tools. (I don't use any of them a ton but sometimes I like them. I probably use kickboards the most and think they get a bad rap.)
You need way more than 400 yards to get used to using a snorkel. I use the "exhale forcefully" method to expel the water after a flipturn, but I've learned that you don't want to expel too forcefully, just a little bit of force works fine.
I would just do a set of, say, 6 x 50 at the end of practice for a few weeks (months?) to get used to the snorkel. Gradually pick up the speed and increase the distance over time.
My two biggest gripes on snorkels: can't push off the walls very hard at all, and it hurts my forehead to wear them for any length of time.
Why in the world would anyone want to use a snorkel. Can it be used in a race??
Will it really help you??
Snorkles are about as useless as swim paddles, kickboards, or fins.
Gotta love fuddy-duddy statements. Sure, throw all that stuff in the trash, along with those newfangled "computer" things all the kids are using. Cell phones too; a string and two paper cups was just fine back in the day.
I agree with the last statement but probably not the way you intended. All that equipment can be useful as training tools. (I don't use any of them a ton but sometimes I like them. I probably use kickboards the most and think they get a bad rap.)
You need way more than 400 yards to get used to using a snorkel. I use the "exhale forcefully" method to expel the water after a flipturn, but I've learned that you don't want to expel too forcefully, just a little bit of force works fine.
I would just do a set of, say, 6 x 50 at the end of practice for a few weeks (months?) to get used to the snorkel. Gradually pick up the speed and increase the distance over time.
My two biggest gripes on snorkels: can't push off the walls very hard at all, and it hurts my forehead to wear them for any length of time.
