Duikelkeerpunt, ook voor open water zwemmers (in het zwembad)

In het Engels, maar wel degelijk relevant:

One of the best things about open water swimming is that there are no walls to block our progress. This makes swimming outside easier (turns are tiring and disrupt your rhythm) and harder (you get a speed boost with each turn and your arms get a brief rest). Obviously you don’t need to do tumble turns in open water, despite the jokes people make about tumble-turning half way through double crossings such as two-way Windermere swims.

A tumble turn, sometimes called a flip-turn, is the way competitive pool swimmers change direction when they reach a wall in freestyle races. It is considerably faster than grabbing the wall with your hand and dragging your legs through the water – called a grab turn or touch turn.

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