ever nail the wall with your heels?

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That Guy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:00:17 GMT

"Re: ever nail the wall with your heels?" Yes. Yes I have. Split open both heels. Swam another 1700 yards of warmup before I got out and somebody started yelling about all the blood on the pool deck that I was unknowingly spewing.....:shakeshead: ...When you're visiting a pool for the first time (e.g. warming up @ an unfamiliar pool for a competition), be careful. The walls may be deceptive until you get used to them.

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That Guy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:15:36 GMT

I was 18 when the incident I described happened. Since I'm slightly older than that now :cane:, yeah I guess it's pretty rare.

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joel schmaltz — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:17:49 GMT

Thankfully this very rarely happens to me. The last time it happened resulted in a large bruise. I blamed it on switching to a different color goggles.

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orca1946 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:27:08 GMT

Did this in college & learned my lesson, never again !:afraid:

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Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:29:34 GMT

Yes, I smacked the heels over the top of the gutter/pool deck. I still do old-school turns (ie, do not flip straight onto my back) so I hit at a slight angle that was enough to sprain my ankle. You would think after the first million or two flipturns this wouldn't happen any more. Fortunately it was minor and only resulted in a few days of limping around in pain. Learning from other swimmer's experiences: this is a good argument for swimming with corrective lens goggles or with contact lenses if you have poor eyesight.

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Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:17:37 GMT

When I first started back, I did this quite a bit, once every few months. Actually cut my heal one of the times. Just did it two weeks a go after probably a year and a half, the bruises are finally gone.

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Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:52:40 GMT

My fingers hit the side wall when breaststroking, quite painful, too.

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Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:54:35 GMT

Oh yeah, done this many a time. Fortunately never hard enough to split my heel *ouch!*

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Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:25:11 GMT

hahahaha my brother just did this this morning and is limping around today! Poor kid.

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Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:44:12 GMT

Never done it that I can recall in my 32 years of swimming. But I have seen a few folks do it...some hard enough to split them open (yuck!).

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__steve__ — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:35:08 GMT

Haven't done this yet. The club pool I practice in uses a 4" wide lane line that goes all the way up the wall and the bottom corner is curved. This gives the swimmer no other option than to sight for the wall:afraid:. I usually end up turning too early contacting the wall with legs extended.

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Allen Stark — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:23:38 GMT

I haven't smashed my heels in many years(it is a rapid learning experience.)I did catch my finger in the lane line swimming backstroke a few years ago(another reason I hate that stroke) and it took months to heal.

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Swimosaur — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:25:48 GMT

Not recently with the heels, but I have recently tangled my fingers in the lane line while swimming backstroke. Thankfully nothing broke, but my hand was sore for weeks. Bashing my wrist against a concrete wall while swimming butterfly in an outside lane resulted in another hand injury that took weeks to heal. Somehow I managed to do that to both hands this fall. Swimming straight would probably help!

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Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:41:40 GMT

No, but I'm going to think about this while I swim this morning. Ouch! (Form my ass, I'm just avoiding the walls/lane lines/other swimmers...)

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Former Member — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:39:59 GMT

I'm a member of this club. I did this just a few weeks ago.

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jessicafk11 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:15:45 GMT

I think just about everyone has misjudged a turn at some point and hit their heels. Fortunately, I haven't done it since I swam in high school and I grazed my heels more than smacked them, but we had people who did real damage on a misjudged turn.

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swim4me — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:57:58 GMT

My brother broke his ankle doing this a few years ago. When my mom told me, I was like "How do you break you ankle while swimming?" He had to explain it to me. Thing was he hit them hard a time or two before he broke the one, you think he would have learned. (I got the brains in the family:thhbbb:)

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Karen Duggan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:13:13 GMT

I did this trying a new back to *** turn about 8 weeks ago. It just stopped hurting this week. That is one of those truly painful, truly stupid injuries! I would have sworn that I broke it. High heel shoes were the only thing that offered relief. Years ago, one of my teammates hit both of her heels in a backstroke race. Unfortunately, they were metal gutters and she ended up with 9 stitches in one and I don't remember how many in the other : ( Lots of blood- yeck. I was surprised that she was allowed to swim the next day. She did do all of her races. Go 'Creek!