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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Do a cannon ball or can opener right next to them to make them aware that you are in they lane they need to pick a side and share it with you.
AJ
From the Files of Stupid Swimmer Antics:
My summer job in '64 and '65 was lifeguarding at Carpinteria State Beach. There were lifeguard competitions between the different beaches all over SoCal throughout the summerand it was very competitive, so we were expected to workout at the Biltmore Hotel Pool (LCM) every morning. Some of the guys took this training a little more serious than the majority of us slackers. The slackers revenge was to wait until the gung ho guy was coming into his deep end turn then bomb him, one guy to each side and slightly ahead of the swimmer, from the 10 meter tower, of course exercising caution not to hurt our friend, :afraid:but guaranteed to get his attention.
Do a cannon ball or can opener right next to them to make them aware that you are in they lane they need to pick a side and share it with you.
AJ
From the Files of Stupid Swimmer Antics:
My summer job in '64 and '65 was lifeguarding at Carpinteria State Beach. There were lifeguard competitions between the different beaches all over SoCal throughout the summerand it was very competitive, so we were expected to workout at the Biltmore Hotel Pool (LCM) every morning. Some of the guys took this training a little more serious than the majority of us slackers. The slackers revenge was to wait until the gung ho guy was coming into his deep end turn then bomb him, one guy to each side and slightly ahead of the swimmer, from the 10 meter tower, of course exercising caution not to hurt our friend, :afraid:but guaranteed to get his attention.
