Flipturns?

Some say they're not needed because you don't do flips in open water. Well, you don't have walls to push off either, and don't take a break every 25 yards with an open turn.

I say learn them, use them. When you're in the pool, swim like a swimmer.

They disorient me and make me motion sick.  I don't do them. 

I say if you're comfortable using them, use them. If you don't give a darn, don't. If you never got the hang of them, don't use them.

I only use them when I am racing my son.  I get a light headed when I do too many. 

I just started doing them. Much easier to do than I thought. I spent many hours (months, a year or so) doing open turns, then started doing an underwater open turn. After many hours (months, another year or so) of that I decided to try a flip turn. It was surprisingly easy for me and now (for the past few weeks) I do them exclusively when in the pool. I find it helps keep a steady rhythm going , though I am still working out the kinks with timing the breathing. My next scheduled race is my first pool tri and flip turns are allowed, so, why not!

I will add that I used to argue against learning them, though not against doing them. I just didn't want to take up training time learning a skill I would not use directly in open water. Turns out it really didn't take me long at all to learn though I've not mastered it by any stretch.

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If your goal is to become a better overall swimmer, do flip turns. 

I don't think learning flip turns is as important to swimming as learning to track stand is to being a better cyclist!

Is this thread a joke or are we really going to go around and around (no pun intended) about flip turns for another week?

I say learn to track stand first.

Todd

I do them because they are fun.
It makes pool swimming a little less nasty.........ugh....I hate swimming in a pool.
Also helpful to keep the rhythm going .

OP has only 5 posts.....  I say joke.

I grew up a competetive swimmer so I do them kind of out of habit but they aren't something that I work on anymore.

I say do them.  I haven't been swimming long and I was hesitant to start using them because it was so hard to breathe when doing them.  Someone at Master's told me to start using them and I did.  Not sure if it's coincidence or not but I started seeing bigger improvements around the time that I started doing flip turns.   Now, breathing seems so much easier.  I think it's helped me. 

I think doing a flip turn mimics constant swimming more so than an open turn where you have a chance to come up for a breath. 

That you should do them when you can at the pool

I think they are so important I do them when I run.

And yes, I smell a troll.

They're pretty tough to do on a bike!!! ... or, at least, tough to complete!

I just do tailwhips on the bike...while in aero!  It helps me keep up my cadence when doing 180 turns. 

what's a flipturn?

It's what Mr Wilson does in his car.

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took me a minute!!!! 

I love 'em.

But, by golly, do they look silly in the lake...

 

I think it's just the time of the year...I'm waiting for the TI and Galloway threads to start popping back up.

I was going to say Geraldine Jones and see if anyone at all got it

'killer'