A big thanks to everyone who got a chance to try out the Endless Pool at the LCC's. In the end over 1/3 of the participants took a test swim and over 250 took home videos of their stroke. Your feedback and support was very valuable. We look forward to seeing you at the SCC's next year!
Best,
Endless Pools
Backstroke for me was the hardest to get used to swimming in the Endless Pool. This is only because my backstroke is far from fluid/straight and I had the habit of moving to the left or right causing myself to get out of the swim current. I've rigged a pull clothesline that I can have go across above the pool so if I'm doing backstroke I can keep myself in the middle and in the current by aligning with the rope above.
I find minimal wave motion. The rear intake which routes the water under the side benches and back to the front are primarily the function to help make the current smooth. However, certain strokes are a bit wavier than others, such as breastroke causes a bit more wave motion. Freestyle is awesome in the stream with extremely minimal wave motion (which is my competitive stroke).
Overall the Endless Pool is a great workout; however, for maintaining a training regimine for competitive swimming a regular pool is also needed routinely. Not just for practicing starts and turns, but for the whole training of strokes in a regular pool type of water. Endless Pool does well in allowing focused training and wonderful constant swimming (particularly building endurance), but you can't rely on it alone. If you do the Endless Pool a lot and then go to a regular pool after a few weeks, the first few laps feel quite strange without going against a current. It is easy to transition between the two types of pools.
Backstroke for me was the hardest to get used to swimming in the Endless Pool. This is only because my backstroke is far from fluid/straight and I had the habit of moving to the left or right causing myself to get out of the swim current. I've rigged a pull clothesline that I can have go across above the pool so if I'm doing backstroke I can keep myself in the middle and in the current by aligning with the rope above.
I find minimal wave motion. The rear intake which routes the water under the side benches and back to the front are primarily the function to help make the current smooth. However, certain strokes are a bit wavier than others, such as breastroke causes a bit more wave motion. Freestyle is awesome in the stream with extremely minimal wave motion (which is my competitive stroke).
Overall the Endless Pool is a great workout; however, for maintaining a training regimine for competitive swimming a regular pool is also needed routinely. Not just for practicing starts and turns, but for the whole training of strokes in a regular pool type of water. Endless Pool does well in allowing focused training and wonderful constant swimming (particularly building endurance), but you can't rely on it alone. If you do the Endless Pool a lot and then go to a regular pool after a few weeks, the first few laps feel quite strange without going against a current. It is easy to transition between the two types of pools.
