A version of this guy recently (confirmed by witnesses) stood on the bulkhead above the lane in which I was doing backstroke. His back was turned to the lane while he tried to attract the attention of his girlfriend, who was cavorting in the leisure pool, to "Watch how fast I can go!"...he then turned and in the same motion threw himself into the lane without looking first in his rough approximation of a racing dive. His trajectory led him squarely into a head-to-head collision with me as I approached the wall. I had no idea who or what had hit me and being somewhat concussed, I hung onto the lane ropes watching the stars twirling in my vision; he and girlfriend had left the pool. When I felt well enough I made my way to the ladder and two ladies who had been stretching before their aquasizes came up and told me what happened.
It set me back quite a bit in my already irregular return to the water and I am especially now 'freaked out' about who or what is standing on the bulkhead above me as I approach the turn, no matter what the stroke.
A version of this guy recently (confirmed by witnesses) stood on the bulkhead above the lane in which I was doing backstroke. His back was turned to the lane while he tried to attract the attention of his girlfriend, who was cavorting in the leisure pool, to "Watch how fast I can go!"...he then turned and in the same motion threw himself into the lane without looking first in his rough approximation of a racing dive. His trajectory led him squarely into a head-to-head collision with me as I approached the wall. I had no idea who or what had hit me and being somewhat concussed, I hung onto the lane ropes watching the stars twirling in my vision; he and girlfriend had left the pool. When I felt well enough I made my way to the ladder and two ladies who had been stretching before their aquasizes came up and told me what happened.
It set me back quite a bit in my already irregular return to the water and I am especially now 'freaked out' about who or what is standing on the bulkhead above me as I approach the turn, no matter what the stroke.
