Lately I've not been making friends.
I am hitting people during fly. Sometimes it is from another lane since I recover my right arm over the lane line, and sometimes it is a lane mate. I have a 76" reach so I am roughly as wide as a lane.
I try to look and f I see someone I can sometimes do an alligator arm recovery, but this does not always work. People come up fast and you can't always get out of the way.
Is there a trick to this, or is hitting part of the deal?
Sometimes I'll lead so I can at least do a 25 without an issue, but anything over a 25 and I am now paranoid.
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Oh gees, I can relate to this... Last time I injured a young lady, she wasn't even in my lane neither.
Other than trying to protect people sharing your lane by sometimes using 1 arm only to avoid crashes (which is probably what you already do), there's not much you can do. To avoid clashing with people in lanes next to yours, there's nothing you can do.
Because by trying to protect people in your own lane, you end up swimming very close to the rope, which brings you closer from clashing against people in other lanes.
It's nice of you to ask though. Butterfly is a very dangerous stroke. In a year, there will be at least few incidents.
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Oh gees, I can relate to this... Last time I injured a young lady, she wasn't even in my lane neither.
Other than trying to protect people sharing your lane by sometimes using 1 arm only to avoid crashes (which is probably what you already do), there's not much you can do. To avoid clashing with people in lanes next to yours, there's nothing you can do.
Because by trying to protect people in your own lane, you end up swimming very close to the rope, which brings you closer from clashing against people in other lanes.
It's nice of you to ask though. Butterfly is a very dangerous stroke. In a year, there will be at least few incidents.
