Hey, I have a question. Do most strong swimmers know how to do a front flip into a pool?
I know they normally don’t do it as a part of swimming, I’m asking more if it’s a skill they tend to have.
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no. If 5% of the population can do a front flip it is 2.5% of strong swimmers : )
I think the correct percentage is very high for age group swimmers - greater than 50%. The majority of competitive teen swimmers can do a front flip into a pool / off a diving board / etc.
Younger kids might not have enough experience yet, and as you get older, your vestibular system might make it harder to do without getting dizzy.
I am, ok, was, a strong swimmer before my tri days, sub 1min 100m. Regularly did the flip turn. But once in tri, I kind of drifted away from it so to speak as it was unnecessary.
I think he is talking about a front dive flip, from a board or deck??
And have you really stopped doing flip turns in your workouts? I have never heard such a thing from such a good old time swimmer, who obviously spent a lot of hours following the black line..
I spent more and more time in open water. In Vancouver there is a 127m long open pool but the water is very shallow on one end. So 50% fewer flips :-). Doing flips in 25m pool when you want to swim long was just somehow too much for me. This pool also wasn’t frequented by, lets call them, serious swimmers so the walls were sometimes occupied.
There was also some 5 yrs gap between my competitive swimming time in Croatia (then Yugoslavia) and triathlon time in Canada.
I would say yes.
Most strong swimmers have been doing it a long time. As kids they spent many hours screwing off at the pool.
They’ve done many different things at the pool