I have noticed on a few different occasions where people have mentioned the apparent "speed" of the pool they swim in.
anyone want to enlighten a clueless person as to what this means? ;)
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Originally posted by Guvnah
Lane lines (or even double lane lines). They should be tight, and big and have surfaces facing various directions so that waves in all directions are "eaten" (therefore, they should not just be balls-on-a-rope.)
The pool where I swim has a good lane line down the middle of the pool, but uses balls-on-a-rope for the other lane lines. But the problem isn't that they don't have good lane lines for all the lanes. When there's going to be a swim meet, they put lane lines in all the lanes that look just like the one they normally have down the center. But then they take them out again when the meet is over.
Does anyone know why they want to use balls-on-a-rope most of the time (rather than just leaving in the good lane lines)?
Also, a question about grippy versus slippery walls:
I've been to masters meets where they had touch pads on the lanes that were so slippery that it was almost impossible to plant your feet on the wall for a backstroke start. (I can actually remember hearing the command to "plant your feet" at the start of a backstroke heat, and doing it, only to have my feet come sliding down the pad!) Why do they make touch pads this slippery, and why does anyone use them?
Originally posted by Guvnah
Lane lines (or even double lane lines). They should be tight, and big and have surfaces facing various directions so that waves in all directions are "eaten" (therefore, they should not just be balls-on-a-rope.)
The pool where I swim has a good lane line down the middle of the pool, but uses balls-on-a-rope for the other lane lines. But the problem isn't that they don't have good lane lines for all the lanes. When there's going to be a swim meet, they put lane lines in all the lanes that look just like the one they normally have down the center. But then they take them out again when the meet is over.
Does anyone know why they want to use balls-on-a-rope most of the time (rather than just leaving in the good lane lines)?
Also, a question about grippy versus slippery walls:
I've been to masters meets where they had touch pads on the lanes that were so slippery that it was almost impossible to plant your feet on the wall for a backstroke start. (I can actually remember hearing the command to "plant your feet" at the start of a backstroke heat, and doing it, only to have my feet come sliding down the pad!) Why do they make touch pads this slippery, and why does anyone use them?
