I know that sounds dumb, but I have never been to a competition and I have no clue what touch pads look like, how much room they take and how low below the water they are situated...Also, can you somehow miss the touch pads when you hit the wall or not press hard enough on them and not stop the clock?And how is it doing turns with touch pads on the wall?Are they not an unwelcome thing to land your feet on at turns?
Touch pads are Evil. There should be a different category of records for swim meets that use pads as they reduce the length of the event by approximately .005 yards (or .0044 meters) for every length. That's just absurd. With touch pads it shouldn't be advertised as a 100m SCM Freestyle, it should be 99.9824m. Bah.
Oh look here come the nice men in the white coats....
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
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Paul
Touch pads are Evil. There should be a different category of records for swim meets that use pads as they reduce the length of the event by approximately .005 yards (or .0044 meters) for every length. That's just absurd. With touch pads it shouldn't be advertised as a 100m SCM Freestyle, it should be 99.9824m. Bah.
Oh look here come the nice men in the white coats....
We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.
:bouncing:
Paul
