flip turns. Some of us can do them, but many of us cannot. “Too scary,” says one of us. Another says they aggravate his lower back. A number of us aspire to them—“It’s on my to-do list”—while others shun the very thought. “I tried one once and thought I was going to drown.” One of us always fears she’ll start her turn too late and smash her head into the wall. “And yet I never have.” One of us is a former All-American whose stylishly savage turns are the envy of us all. He’s got just the right amount of splash. One of us recently mastered her flip turn at the age of sixty-three. “It’s never
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