Drafting

Lat night, I swam wiht the Unerv. of Ill. masters team. We did Indian Swimming. It used drafting by having us swim in a close line and sprinting. It was a lot of fun but drafting is a big no-no. Also, when you listen to peole after they've just swam a really fast time, thye will almost always mention that what was the best thing was that the water was either quiet or smooth. If you can get still water & move through it, you will swim faster. At least that is what I've always been told. Isn't that why you skull? So that your hand moves into still water through the length of the pull. Wave action is very tricky, it seems to me. Trying to move into & then stay in some one else's wave can be very deceiving. I don't know about all of this. When I think about it, it makes sense. But when I try it, I use a lot of energy trying to stay in the wave coming off of another person. Who knows? Some of this is talked about in Swimming Fastest. Physics is so confusing ot me, I was an Anthropology major. I could go on forever about the social and ecomonical dymanics of the division of swimmers in lanes

Lat night, I swam wiht the Unerv. of Ill. masters team. We did Indian Swimming. It used drafting by having us swim in a close line and sprinting. It was a lot of fun but drafting is a big no-no. Also, when you listen to peole after they've just swam a really fast time, thye will almost always mention that what was the best thing was that the water was either quiet or smooth. If you can get still water & move through it, you will swim faster. At least that is what I've always been told. Isn't that why you skull? So that your hand moves into still water through the length of the pull. Wave action is very tricky, it seems to me. Trying to move into & then stay in some one else's wave can be very deceiving. I don't know about all of this. When I think about it, it makes sense. But when I try it, I use a lot of energy trying to stay in the wave coming off of another person. Who knows? Some of this is talked about in Swimming Fastest. Physics is so confusing ot me, I was an Anthropology major. I could go on forever about the social and ecomonical dymanics of the division of swimmers in lanes