I'm back at school now and it feels so much better swimming at my schools pool than at my local Y becasuse my school pool has a 13 feet deep end. the Y is shallow, its 3 feet on one end.
Deep water is so much better than shallow water.
There is no stream of water following you into a wall to turn, just the turbulence created in the approach. If your streamline is nice and tight and you push off square to the wall, you will not notice very much past 3 feet from the wall where your (kicking) feet last were.
And quit being such babies about 3 feet of water in which to turn!
Michael -
Thanks for the advice...
I do tend to stay centered and squared, which puts me back through the "turbulence" I came in with (provided I have the lane to myself!). But given the earlier talk in this thread about taking your SDK out "under" the water near the surface, I was trying to ensure I had the right idea when I didn't have enough water to get "under" anything.
(I'm not unhappy with the shallow water, I swim in it all the time. I just want to make the best of it!)
Matt
There is no stream of water following you into a wall to turn, just the turbulence created in the approach. If your streamline is nice and tight and you push off square to the wall, you will not notice very much past 3 feet from the wall where your (kicking) feet last were.
And quit being such babies about 3 feet of water in which to turn!
Michael -
Thanks for the advice...
I do tend to stay centered and squared, which puts me back through the "turbulence" I came in with (provided I have the lane to myself!). But given the earlier talk in this thread about taking your SDK out "under" the water near the surface, I was trying to ensure I had the right idea when I didn't have enough water to get "under" anything.
(I'm not unhappy with the shallow water, I swim in it all the time. I just want to make the best of it!)
Matt
