Thursday, November 24, 2011

How do you do a flip turn for breaststroke/ butterfly?

I just started swimming for my high school team. I haven't been competitively for a few years, but I seem to be holding up. Yesterday at swim practice they talked about doing turns for breast/fly instead of doing the open turn. It is almost like a backwards flip-turn but I have no idea how to do it. I really want to learn.. so please let me know!|||The reason you can do flip turns in backstroke and free is because you are not required to touch the wall with your hand. As far as I know, there really aren't "flip turns" for breast stroke and fly, because you DO have to touch the wall with your hand -- both of them! Your coaches are probably referring to a different style of turns that they think are faster. You'll need to learn from them.|||I have been swimming for a long time and you do have to touch the wall with two hands in both breast and fly. I have never herd of any kind of flip turn involved with these strokes. Your coaches could have been referring to a suicide turn which is a turn used in IM when going from backstroke to breaststroke.|||I think your coach must have been talking about a bucket turn in the IM from backstroke to breaststroke. That is basically what you said, a backwards flip. You stay on your back, touch the wall with your hand, then do a flip and push off with your feet into the breaststroke. That's only on the IM. If you are swimming the breast or fly, you need a two-hand touch.|||For Breastroke and fly there is no flipturn... On breastroke the turn is a two hand touch and then a pullout after you push off from the wall.. ask your coach about pullouts(They are only for breastroke). And on fly two hand touch and then about five dolphin kicks off the wall... If you do not two hand touch you will be disqualified in a meet... good luck and talk to your swim coach|||well the way i learned it was you swim to the edge and touch with both hands take your left hand and pull it back like your doing backstroke and then take your right hand and bring to your left hand as you turn your body. Thats the way i learned it hope it helped : )|||There are no such things as flip turns for those two strokes. They are both two hand touches. Well, finger tip touches to be exact.|||There is none. It kind of touch legally and spin around and go! Breaststroke has a required two hand touch. I kinda forgot about butterfly. I swim competitively 6 days a week. Sometimes 7|||There are no flip turns for breast or fly.. All you do is touch the wall with both hands at the same time and do a regular open turn.. Nothing fancy..

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