This may be opening a can of worms here, but I'm having an argument with someone in my group. If someone is drafting off of you in a pool set (like 4x200 SCY), does it hurt your effort? Does the lead swimmer have to work harder or experience some other negative benefit?
I've read a bit about aerodynamics and it would seem that in car racing, the lead car actually gets a positive benefit, but I'm not sure if that's true in swimming.
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Open water drafting is not anything like what happens in a pool. It is strange that some of you think that drafting off a swimmer is done from behind. When I drafted off swimmers I was in very close to the draftee my head was at their shoulders. Their suction on me would pull me in close and I would some times find my self being sucked under them. We had lots of bumping into each other. No one ever took a swing at me I guess I was to big to tangle with. Abou Heif did a lot of drafting when he tried to draft off me we would almost come to a stop. I would not let him draft off me. He once offered to split prize money with me If I let him draft.
Open water drafting is not anything like what happens in a pool. It is strange that some of you think that drafting off a swimmer is done from behind. When I drafted off swimmers I was in very close to the draftee my head was at their shoulders. Their suction on me would pull me in close and I would some times find my self being sucked under them. We had lots of bumping into each other. No one ever took a swing at me I guess I was to big to tangle with. Abou Heif did a lot of drafting when he tried to draft off me we would almost come to a stop. I would not let him draft off me. He once offered to split prize money with me If I let him draft.
