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?
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.
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.
