I look like im being born again when i do these, and not in a good way. :p 2 years ago

I’ll try with a nose clip next time… 4 years ago

I still can’t do a flip turn, but I did swim 2 miles today in open water!! Wee-hoo! 5 years ago

I hadn’t been able to try this for ages because of bad sinus problems over Christmas that seemed to be kick-started by the chlorine in the pool where I usually swim. However, at the end of my swimming class in another (nicer) pool last week, we worked on flip turns and even the little time I’d devoted to them late last year paid off: I was able to swim up to the wall (slowly), flip, and get my feet planted sideways on the wall before pushing off. I’m not very spatially-aware, but I was making contact more often than not. I have to use a nose-clip, though, and won’t consider I can really do a flip turn until this aid is eventually abandoned! But I figure it’s an idea to get the turn into my muscle memory first before being disoriented by water going up my nose! 6 years ago

The first nose plug didn’t work. I’m going to try another. 7 years ago

I can now a flip turn. I’m still not comfortable doing them, but I can do them. Now I just have to get used to doing them while I’m swimming laps. I’ll mark this goal complete once I’m consistently doing them. 7 years ago

The swimming lesson times for fall are now posted. I just emailed mom to see if she wants to take a lesson with me. Yeah! Hopefully this will work out and I’ll learn to do flip turns and butterfly. 7 years ago

I hope to take an advanced swimming class this fall and learn how to do a flip turn and improve the strokes I do now (crawl, backstroke, and breatstroke). 7 years ago