Does anyone know of a lightweight glove that can be worn while swimming? Something like thin cotton gloves, but a material that won't absorb water and be difficult to remove.
When sharing a lane with someone who takes up a lot of room I try to stay close to the lane line out of self-preservation. Occasionally I hit my knuckles on the line, so I usually have a few skinned spots on my hands. I figured gloves might help. So would swimming in a straighter line, but that gets messed up by the other guy's wake.;)
Does anybody else run into this problem?
Tom
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Jim & Tom,
One person's opinion: yes, form does matter. You want to recover your arm with a high elbow and keep your hand relatively close to your body. If you swing it wide, you will have a stronger tendency to fish tail from one side to the other (an equal and opposite reaction kind of thing). Also, you increase the risk of thwacking either the lane lines or your lane mates.
I still have scars on my right hand from circle swimming on my college team. Our lane lines weren't that bad, it was just that enough light brushes over time would still rub off layers of skin. When this recurred on a masters team (that really did have razor lane lines) I began wrapping the affected area of my arm with duct tape. It was pretty localized to the same square inch, so a couple of loose wraps around were sufficient. (Be sure to wrap loosely enough so your circulation is not affected. Duct tape sticks to itself real well, so you don't need a tight wrap.) Cheap, effective and easy to take off. The area would have a chance to heal in about a week. I also sometimes get sores on my feet if I wear fins a lot. Same duct tape trick works well there, but you have to give an extra wrap around because the fins will rub them out of place.
Matt
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Jim & Tom,
One person's opinion: yes, form does matter. You want to recover your arm with a high elbow and keep your hand relatively close to your body. If you swing it wide, you will have a stronger tendency to fish tail from one side to the other (an equal and opposite reaction kind of thing). Also, you increase the risk of thwacking either the lane lines or your lane mates.
I still have scars on my right hand from circle swimming on my college team. Our lane lines weren't that bad, it was just that enough light brushes over time would still rub off layers of skin. When this recurred on a masters team (that really did have razor lane lines) I began wrapping the affected area of my arm with duct tape. It was pretty localized to the same square inch, so a couple of loose wraps around were sufficient. (Be sure to wrap loosely enough so your circulation is not affected. Duct tape sticks to itself real well, so you don't need a tight wrap.) Cheap, effective and easy to take off. The area would have a chance to heal in about a week. I also sometimes get sores on my feet if I wear fins a lot. Same duct tape trick works well there, but you have to give an extra wrap around because the fins will rub them out of place.
Matt
