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 What is it?
- The first and only tool ever designed and developed specifically to help coaches teach and swimmers learn the fundamentals of the freestyle flip turn.
- A support apparatus, enabling swimmers to move through the proper mechanics of the turn prior to learning it.
- Provides coaches with a systematic, standard method of teaching and swimmers with a fun tactile method of learning.
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Who is it for?
- Coaches, Swimming Teams, Swim School Owners, Swim Camps, Masters programs or any swimming facility that supports such programs and opportunities.
- Novice level swimmers of any age, youth or adult, who need to learn the turn from scratch.
- Intermediate to advanced level swimmers who need to clean up various fundamental aspects of the turn such as proper line of rotation, proper push off alignment or streamlining.
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How does it work?
- One Station consists of two hand platforms suspended underwater by two floats which attach to the lane lines. The platforms provide swimmers with a place to put their hands while tucking and flipping.
- With platforms used as hand “placeholders” while the hips and legs flip over to the wall, swimmers feel the proper mechanics of the skill before they’ve actually learned it. See Advantages
- Repetition of the FlipTrain 6 Step Drill Progression develops muscle memory and allows movement imprinting to occur. Swimmers learn the skill faster, more enjoyably and coaches are provided with a standard method by which to teach the skill.
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| Why is it Needed?
"First of all, having a "system" for doing anything in athletics is very important. The typical hit-and-miss, or trial-and-error method of training or teaching has gone by the wayside with the term "dumb jock." Quote taken from Glenn Mills, Technical Advisor to Swimming World Magazine and Swim Technique in his article “Backstroke -Timing Your Turns", posted on www.goswim.tv, June 2005.
This is the reason FlipTrain was conceived and developed . . . to provide a system for teaching and learning the freestyle flip turn. But, more than that . . . a tool, to support and implement a standard system. A tool to leverage time and effort. A tool that brings a higher level of efficiency, fun and success to the entire experience of teaching and learning the flip turn.
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