Does Pool Depth have an effect on surface turbulence?
Former Member
I noticed that I really struggle breathing on backstroke in shallow pools (e.g. 5ft deep) because when there are a bunch of other swimmers, there's TONS of surface turbulance and I have trouble keeping my face above the water.
Should I just tuck my chin more (possibly risking my legs sinking?) or maybe try a deeper pool?
Does anyone else have this problem?
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Former Member
I will just add that I personally find that in the water doing things too slowly sometimes makes them difficult. I don't know what speed you are swimming at but I find that when doing new drills sometimes I end up going too slow to do things correctly.
Just something to experiment with.
I know I'm jumping into this thread way too long after the original dates (I'm trying to catch up on thousands of "must read"s)
Regarding breathing in freestyle, and all the remarks made about how far, to the side, does one have to tilt, swivel (head and/or neck and/or torso), the faster one is swimming, the less one has to "turn", since your head --moving at speed-- creates a trough (the faster, the deeper and the less you have to turn your head). When done right, and if you look at the water surface, you'll notice that your mouth is at a level lower than the water's surface. You cannot train for this by swimming slowly but train, one can. Try at different speeds and see what is the least amount of twisting you have to do to get the lower corner of your mouth barely out of the water.
Cheers
I will just add that I personally find that in the water doing things too slowly sometimes makes them difficult. I don't know what speed you are swimming at but I find that when doing new drills sometimes I end up going too slow to do things correctly.
Just something to experiment with.
I know I'm jumping into this thread way too long after the original dates (I'm trying to catch up on thousands of "must read"s)
Regarding breathing in freestyle, and all the remarks made about how far, to the side, does one have to tilt, swivel (head and/or neck and/or torso), the faster one is swimming, the less one has to "turn", since your head --moving at speed-- creates a trough (the faster, the deeper and the less you have to turn your head). When done right, and if you look at the water surface, you'll notice that your mouth is at a level lower than the water's surface. You cannot train for this by swimming slowly but train, one can. Try at different speeds and see what is the least amount of twisting you have to do to get the lower corner of your mouth barely out of the water.
Cheers
