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Turns - Learning the Underwater Dolphin - Step 2

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | 7 days ago | 3 comments 3 comments

Here's Step 2 in our simple progression for learning the underwater dolphin.


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Turns - Learning the Underwater Dolphin - Step 1

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | 14 days ago | 23 comments 23 comments

There are few things in swimming that cross the lines of all strokes, but learning the underwater dolphin is certainly the most important.


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Freestyle - Ultra-Fast Turns

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Nov 10, 2009 07:30AM | 11 comments 11 comments

The concept of "working your turns" is something all swimmers know about, but few swimmers take seriously. Maybe they think they don't have time, or are too tired to create QUICK and FAST walls. Here's a drill that will help. For the younger swimmers especially, this proves to be a good drill, and fun.


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Turns - Two-Handed Freestyle

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Jul 01, 2009 09:00AM | 2 comments 2 comments

If you're like most competitive swimmers, the majority of your training is freestyle. This is great, but it doesn't give you much chance to practice your butterfly or breaststroke turns. This drill can be incorporated into any standard freestyle set. It provides the benefits of distance training, and allows you to practice your two-handed turns.


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Turns - Weighted Flips

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | May 24, 2009 05:41PM | 9 comments 9 comments

Every part of your race is important but flip turns carry a little extra weight because, pure and simple, fast turns mean fast times.


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Turns - Plant Your Feet

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Apr 21, 2009 08:00AM | 3 comments 3 comments

Turns can make or break any race, so having REALLY fast turns is extremely important to competitive swimmers. Some swimmers, however, focus so much on spinning around QUICKLY, that they sometimes place their feet too high -- or too low -- on the wall.


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Turns - Tennessee Turns

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Apr 14, 2009 08:00AM | 17 comments 17 comments

Way back in the mid 1970s, the University of Tennessee was one of the powerhouses of NCAA swimming. They were famous all over the world for their ability to start, and turn.


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Freestyle Flip Turn - Far-Hands Flip Turn

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Mar 10, 2009 12:04PM | 13 comments 13 comments

Every swimmer wants to have super-fast freestyle flip turns, and wants to execute them with vigorous authority. Sometimes, however, this desire creates more problems than it solves.


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Starts - Clean Up the Feet

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Feb 10, 2009 05:24AM | 9 comments 9 comments

Most of the time when we work on starts, we focus on the take-off. Here's a short focal point that starts with the end... the feet.


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Turns - Flip-Turn Eyes

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Jan 27, 2009 07:00AM | 12 comments 12 comments

One of the most common actions in our sport is the flip turn. Depending on how you accomplish this action, you're either making your life easier... or harder.


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Dryland: Building Quickness

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Dec 16, 2008 05:15AM | 6 comments 6 comments

Quickness and explosive power are essential to fast swimming, but it’s difficult to develop these skills in the pool because of the resistive quality of water.


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Salute the Official

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Nov 11, 2008 10:05AM | 6 comments 6 comments

Showing respect for the officials is always a good thing, but now it can actually help you have a tighter, straighter, faster butterfly and breaststroke turn. In this series of photos, a few swimmers demonstrate a very smart salute.


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Starts & Turns - Rocket Launchers!

By Barbara Hummel to Starts & Turns | May 13, 2008 08:00AM | 5 comments 5 comments

Here's a cool way to have some fun while improving your swimming. Rocket Launchers are a form of plyometrics, which is a fancy word for any exercise where a muscle is super-stretched before it's contracted. In Rocket Launchers, you're stretching (or loading) the quads as you crouch under the surface, then you're explosively CONTRACTING the quads as you jump up.


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Turns - Flip Turn Variations

By Glenn Mills to Starts & Turns | Oct 19, 2007 08:04AM | 0 comments 0 comments

Flip turns. Once you've learned how to get your feet over, you may think you've got them mastered. But think again.


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Turns/Walls - Kickboard Pushoffs

By Barbara Hummel to Starts & Turns | Jun 29, 2007 05:03AM | 6 comments 6 comments

If you have a tendency to push off right at the surface of the water, here's a drill that can help you get down to the proper depth.



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