Hi! New guy to the forums here, and pretty new to lap swimming too -- I've been doing it since May sometime.
More than once when I've wanted to join someone in a lane I've found it difficult to get their attention. At first I thought people just didn't want to share, but then I paid attention while I was swimming and realized that when you're looking at the bottom of the pool it is indeed easy to miss someone standing on the edge.
So what do you do? I've taken to dangling my feet deep enough that they're hard to miss, but is this obnoxious? Does anybody have pointers for getting someone's attention without annoying them when you need to share a lane?
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But don't forget that, in sanctioned meets, warm up lanes are alternating clockwise and anti-clockwise. (At least, in Canada, they are and if memory serves, these are FINA rules.)
I dunno about the rules, but BitD, the evening AAU "A" team swam 7 lanes in a 6 lane pool w/o lane lanes. Every other lane alternated CW/CCW so you were only at risk of a head on with your own lane mates - otherwise you were swimming alongside. Everybody learned to bilateral breathe and turn either direction off the wall, for survival if nothing else. That was one crowded workout - and choppy too.
At a new pool today, in my own lane, # 7 of 10x100, I 'met' another swimmer, no harm done. I asked him, "hey, no introduction?" and he retorts, "You were just swimming all over the place!" Yeah, old habit of slowly drifting across to the far left side of the lane into the wall, as soon as the last person in the lane would go by - especially when you know #2 behind you is drafting, pecking at your toes . . . So, he obviously had watched me, but couldn't wait the 1:20 to say 'hey - circle or split?'
When I was done I realized the quards had put the stupid placards up and I was in the 'slow' lane as opposed to medium, fast or very fast. When I guarded, I took charge of my pool and I would routinely move swimmers from lane to lane as some finished and others came in. Pretty please, of course. Like any other culture, it's up to the older wiser to educate the younger/newer.
But don't forget that, in sanctioned meets, warm up lanes are alternating clockwise and anti-clockwise. (At least, in Canada, they are and if memory serves, these are FINA rules.)
I dunno about the rules, but BitD, the evening AAU "A" team swam 7 lanes in a 6 lane pool w/o lane lanes. Every other lane alternated CW/CCW so you were only at risk of a head on with your own lane mates - otherwise you were swimming alongside. Everybody learned to bilateral breathe and turn either direction off the wall, for survival if nothing else. That was one crowded workout - and choppy too.
At a new pool today, in my own lane, # 7 of 10x100, I 'met' another swimmer, no harm done. I asked him, "hey, no introduction?" and he retorts, "You were just swimming all over the place!" Yeah, old habit of slowly drifting across to the far left side of the lane into the wall, as soon as the last person in the lane would go by - especially when you know #2 behind you is drafting, pecking at your toes . . . So, he obviously had watched me, but couldn't wait the 1:20 to say 'hey - circle or split?'
When I was done I realized the quards had put the stupid placards up and I was in the 'slow' lane as opposed to medium, fast or very fast. When I guarded, I took charge of my pool and I would routinely move swimmers from lane to lane as some finished and others came in. Pretty please, of course. Like any other culture, it's up to the older wiser to educate the younger/newer.
