During practice on Monday I was asked why we were doing open turns. For the past couple of weeks we have work through sets that involved some open turns while doing 75's (50 free/ 25 back and 50 free/ 24 breast or fly). Why do we do them? I have notice during the last few meets that some of us are losing momentum at the walls on our exchanges. We our not getting our hips and legs into the walls fast enough which hurts our speed coming off of them. I wanted to come up with something that would help our speed into the walls with the hope of helping you all get your hips and legs into the walls. I decided that if we swim in free which is faster and perform open turns the result might be faster exchanges for the breast and fly, and also for the IM events. Think about it there are seven turns in swimming and two of them are flips (free and back) which we do all the time. The other five turns involve the IM, breast and fly Oh,and by the way are open turns. Alot of time when w