There are so many new products on the market, oddly shaped paddles, gloves - I even saw this contraption where you connect a tube from your waste to your ankles so that kicking is more difficult.
I do not think that this equipment is effective - particularily paddles - unless you are a very high lever swimmer and you only use it spottingly. Unfortunately ussage tends to be most common with LOW level swimmers and these swimmers use the equipment far too much durring each workout.
My advice to those returning to the pool is to avoid all of this stuff - it will only lead to injuries.
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Shakey,
Where you at? Sounds like a place to AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE, when I come up for orders. I've been lucky. I've always found a decent Masters team wherever I've gone (and everyone understands the ground rules there), and when I use lap swim time, I have not had the crowding or doofus issues you have encountered. Of course, I have also found that most people tend to get out of my way during lap swim. Is it because I am fast (my history at SCN's would indicate otherwise), or maybe because I am the doofus?
Matt
P.S. What is the plural of doofus, anyway? Doofuses? Dooffi?
Shakey,
Where you at? Sounds like a place to AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE, when I come up for orders. I've been lucky. I've always found a decent Masters team wherever I've gone (and everyone understands the ground rules there), and when I use lap swim time, I have not had the crowding or doofus issues you have encountered. Of course, I have also found that most people tend to get out of my way during lap swim. Is it because I am fast (my history at SCN's would indicate otherwise), or maybe because I am the doofus?
Matt
P.S. What is the plural of doofus, anyway? Doofuses? Dooffi?
