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.
+ wait for your lane to be clear & swim a fast 25
+ pass them while you're SDKing
+ just as someone is approaching you break stroke and do a 1 arm pull or dive SDK & surface once you are past them
OR
just barrell down the lane full blast, make a FIST & SMACK them HARD, thus teaching them not to swim in your lane or beside your lane when you're swimming fly
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.
+ wait for your lane to be clear & swim a fast 25
+ pass them while you're SDKing
+ just as someone is approaching you break stroke and do a 1 arm pull or dive SDK & surface once you are past them
OR
just barrell down the lane full blast, make a FIST & SMACK them HARD, thus teaching them not to swim in your lane or beside your lane when you're swimming fly
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.
