Drafting

Originally posted by Tom Ellison Lindsay: Drafting is somewhat difficult (if not impossible) to do to a swimmer who really in not interested in pulling someone along through the race. I had two guys intentionally attempt to draft me in a 5K in Lake Travis, Texas. Both got warnings and then one got a serious lesson in manners out on the course after ignoring my very decent and forthright warning. Intentionally drafting another swimmer in open water swimming events is a very rude and knuckle head thing to do. Swimmers who do that know good and well that sometimes there are consequences for that type rude behavior and from what I’ve seen over the years, the lessons are sometimes not very pretty. Simply put, sometimes you screw around with the bull, you get the horn…… Tom -- Tell me more about this. How do you give a guy a warning? How do you execute that "serious lesson in manners" out on the course? A kick to the face?

Originally posted by Tom Ellison Lindsay: Drafting is somewhat difficult (if not impossible) to do to a swimmer who really in not interested in pulling someone along through the race. I had two guys intentionally attempt to draft me in a 5K in Lake Travis, Texas. Both got warnings and then one got a serious lesson in manners out on the course after ignoring my very decent and forthright warning. Intentionally drafting another swimmer in open water swimming events is a very rude and knuckle head thing to do. Swimmers who do that know good and well that sometimes there are consequences for that type rude behavior and from what I’ve seen over the years, the lessons are sometimes not very pretty. Simply put, sometimes you screw around with the bull, you get the horn…… Tom -- Tell me more about this. How do you give a guy a warning? How do you execute that "serious lesson in manners" out on the course? A kick to the face?