I am constantly doing it in practice and have nasty bruised on my right forearm. I mean ugly enough for my kids ped. to ask suspicious questions. I guess they look like I have been man handled. Nasty, green old brusies, with red/purple new ones on top. Plus they HURT! And seem to never heal with 3 practices a week.
Anyway, any suggestions besides, don't hit the lane line? Is there some kind of arm armour for swimming?
Backstroke:
Catch deeper so that you pull below the lane line and not near the surface.
Be sure you are "throwing water" at the end of your pull, down to your feet. This will help you swim in a straight line.
If you throw water out to the side, you push yourself into the lane line or the middle of your lane.
Butterfly:
A team I swam on a few years ago setup the lanes to swim butterfly sets so that they alternated, Clockwise Lane / Counter-Clockwise Lane from opposite ends to avoid hitting eachother across the lane lines so often.
Aren't most of us scarred for life after years of hitting lanelines, swimmers in paddles or w/wide arm recovery?
I almost died the first time I laid eyes on a set of those gigantor TYR paddles one of our bad a** distance guys showed up with at practice years ago.
(I do think he retired early with bad shoulders)
Backstroke:
Catch deeper so that you pull below the lane line and not near the surface.
Be sure you are "throwing water" at the end of your pull, down to your feet. This will help you swim in a straight line.
If you throw water out to the side, you push yourself into the lane line or the middle of your lane.
Butterfly:
A team I swam on a few years ago setup the lanes to swim butterfly sets so that they alternated, Clockwise Lane / Counter-Clockwise Lane from opposite ends to avoid hitting eachother across the lane lines so often.
Aren't most of us scarred for life after years of hitting lanelines, swimmers in paddles or w/wide arm recovery?
I almost died the first time I laid eyes on a set of those gigantor TYR paddles one of our bad a** distance guys showed up with at practice years ago.
(I do think he retired early with bad shoulders)
