How to Do Breaststroke Turns

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"PHILLIP TORIELLO: Hello and welcome to Expert Village, I'm Phillip Toriello from the Avila Bay Athletic Club. The breaststroke turn is really quite simple. You're basically going to be using an open turn, turn. What you'll be doing is you'll be going through your pull breathe, kick glide in that last portion right when you're close to the wall, you're going to get that strong glide. And really at this point, it's all a matter of timing. As you come into the wall and hopefully, by the time that you're entering races, you'll have a really good idea as to how far out like how much of a stroke you need to really reach into that wall. You'll come into the wall, touch it with an open turn type process, bring your body underneath you and just as your feet are coming underneath your body, you'll be turning over to your side sliding your left or right hand, your choice, underneath your body and just as that left arm is coming down, your right arm will come over the top, you'll put yourself under the water approximately 12 inches from streamline off the wall onto your belly."