How in the world do you approach the wall on the right side of the lane, flip, and depart on the other side without running into someone?
Up to this point, I guess have led a fairly charmed Masters Swimming life. On all the teams I've swum with, it was rare to circle swim. No more! I'm now swimming LCM with half a dozen others sharing the lane, which is great, but I can't flip turn now to save my life.
Normally, I come straight into the wall, flip straight over onto my back, come straight off the wall, and roll over in the streamline. That won't cut it in circle swim. How do you do it? I have to either lead the lane, and sneak over to the left coming into the wall, or go last and stay on the right.
What's the technique?
Occasionally there will be some USS kids swimming in the pool that I go to, and they share a lane when they swim. In watching them swim, specifically turns, they tumble into the wall on the right side, and as they push off they do so to their right (at an angle) to the left. Not really an answer, but an observation.
I always had problems doing this (which is probably why I seldom did flip turns when I was younger and swam with a team). I'm sure it's a practice issue and can be learned with perseverance; I'm fortunate enough that at worse, I've only had to split a lane with one other swimmer, and we both pick a side and go because of the differing swim speeds.
:bliss:
Occasionally there will be some USS kids swimming in the pool that I go to, and they share a lane when they swim. In watching them swim, specifically turns, they tumble into the wall on the right side, and as they push off they do so to their right (at an angle) to the left. Not really an answer, but an observation.
I always had problems doing this (which is probably why I seldom did flip turns when I was younger and swam with a team). I'm sure it's a practice issue and can be learned with perseverance; I'm fortunate enough that at worse, I've only had to split a lane with one other swimmer, and we both pick a side and go because of the differing swim speeds.
:bliss:
