When swimmers hit the end of a lap in a pool, how do they do the trick where they turn around off of the wall?

Question

When swimmers hit the end of a lap in a pool, how do they do the trick where they turn around off of the wall?

Answer 1

wel, u swim w.e swim ur doing then once u get about an arms length away or maybe a little mor, u do a somersault in the water. wen ur feet get 2 where the wall would be,, u just push off as hard as u can. its kinda hard or scaryish at first, but just practice && ull get the hang of it!! hope i helped!!

also try other websites. like usaswim.

Answer 2

They flip! Once swimmers get really close, but not too close to bump their heads or scrape their backs, they somersault or flip frontwards and when they're in the "act" underwater, they twist their body ( stomach down ) so that their legs are in a squatted position with the soles of their feet getting ready to push off the wall. Once they push off, they stick their arms together ( and legs ) and do a butterfly motion...dolphin or mermaid like...and reach the surface to continue doing their stroke.

If they're doing the backstroke, then they don't backflip, but sense out the end of the wall a couple feet back, rotate their body around to the front position, and flip again. However when they're underwater, they twist their bodies stomach up, with feet squatting at the wall, and push off while blowing bubbles out of their nose. Then they reach the surface and keep kicking!

Answer 3

For full details, go to www.usswim.com

It depends on your height and speed, but when a swimmer sees the "t" on the bottom of the pool, they flip very quickly. If they are doing freestyle, they will push off of their back and rotate back to their stomachs just before they surface, doing butterfly kick the whole time.

When they surface, they will begine freestyle.

Hope this helps! K

Answer 4

They do a somersault under water and kick off the wall.

I'm sorry if i didn't give a lot of information.

But it's really straight forward. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

its called a flip turn an when you reach the wall you go under doing a flip on the wall and then kick off, when you kick off you will be facing the sky you need to quickly turn around and continue your stroke. there are different flip turns for different strokes.for breast and butterfly you grab the wall and turn back around and go with freestlyle you do a flip turn but for back stroke 1 stroke before the wall you turn and do a flip turn and instead of lipping over you stay the same. hope this helped!!!!!!!!  : )

Answer 6

Umm!!!! Do a flip (summersault) and then push off