For emergency situations, it's necessary to be able to swim with your regular clothes on. It must be much harder. Is open water the only place where this can be trained?
Hey 2fish&1whale;162258
It's already being done with the Tech Suit craze.
I guess since you were totally proven a fool on the other thread you've come to this one to continue your uneducated rant. What do you mean by tech suit craze? It's been going on since at least 1988 making it neither new nor a craze.
Do you honestly know a single thing about competitive swimming at all?
I remember having to swim in jeans and a sweatshirt and then inflating your jeans to make an ad-hoc life vest for WSI back in the 1980s.
First thing a person learns is get the shoes off.
You're right about that and I'm wondering if this is really a good idea. Most shoes float, don't they? Why would you remove the one piece of clothing that actually provides buoyancy, especially in cold water?
Life saving 101.
The question isn't where they teach this. I know they have always (or at least when I took the classes) told you to ditch the shoes. I just don't think it's sound logic anymore. Maybe back in the day fewer people wore shoes that floated, but now lots of people wear shoes with rubber soles.
Maybe if you're wearing heavy boots, but how much water is a close fitting shoe really going to fill with? My gut feeling is you should keep your shoes on if the water is below 70 degrees unless they really seem to be pulling you down.
I had a swim coach that would run practices with full clothes - generally shorts and a t-shirt, but if he was feeling like being a bit hard with jeans. We participated in the AAU Junior Olympic games (in Iowa that year) and he even made us warm up one morning full clothes at the meet for not making a "lights out" at the hotel the previous night.
I think at least a few of the other teams got kinda intimidated, though I am certain we looked rediculous.
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What great things we can do with clothing. You can take the jeans off and by tying the ends of each leg you can have a great floating device. Most lifesaving courses teach the technique in swim pools.
First thing a person learns is get the shoes off. It is plain to see some people have really gone off your topic.
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enter grimaldo's mile hosted by www.cibbows.org they have a costume catagory for their annual mile swim at coney island.
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Life saving 101.
You're right about that and I'm wondering if this is really a good idea. Most shoes float, don't they? Why would you remove the one piece of clothing that actually provides buoyancy, especially in cold water?
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I once went to the Sunday morning "women only" swim at the YWCA and saw a lot of women (presumably Muslim) swimming with long sweatpants and tee shirts on over top of swimsuits. Seems like a lot of wet cotton to drag around, but I suppose it could be good training for boating accidents.
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It's not so much about shoes floating but more about the shoes filling with water and weighing you down.
If you trow a pair of shoes in the pool they will probably float briefly, until they are either soaked with water(like sneakers) or filled with water.
