What’s Got Gary Small So Excited?
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Topic: Freestyle turns (14 of 16), Read 12 times
Conf: Racing - Pool or Open Water
From: Gary Small
Date: Friday, January 05, 2007 04:44 AM

Bob,

I've been practicing the flip turns these last few days only, and already my times for repeats I was doing last week have come down by 1-2 seconds on 50m (25m pool)! And I am in no way proficient at this art yet.

Thank you so much for your input, I am really excited about doing flip turns for the first time in my life. The thing is that I am now conscious of what various parts of my body are doing during the turn, whereas before I had pretty much given up on being able to do anythiWhat'ng other than an open turn. And now with your latest post, even that will improve vastly!

It is the sort of excitement I got when I started learning TI free style for the first time. Before, the turns were just a means to get me to the next lap so that I could discover more with each stroke. This week, the laps have almost been just a means to get me to the next turn, so that I can learn more there!

Thanks again for a truly consciousness-raising week, and for the "thinking" turns in the weeks to come. I'm off to the pool to do some more turns, with maybe some laps in between.

Regards,
Gary

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