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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I swim fly with very fast, very aggressive people in very narrow lanes. Have good, multiple SDKs off the walls and swim with aggression to mark your space. We have surprisingly few smack incidents even with upwards of 6 flyers in a SCY lane. I would never recommend breaking stroke to pass. It's a bad habit to break and it won't help you come race time. This aggression, er, I call it confidence, will keep people who have no business being in your lane out of your lane.
I swim fly with very fast, very aggressive people in very narrow lanes. Have good, multiple SDKs off the walls and swim with aggression to mark your space. We have surprisingly few smack incidents even with upwards of 6 flyers in a SCY lane. I would never recommend breaking stroke to pass. It's a bad habit to break and it won't help you come race time. This aggression, er, I call it confidence, will keep people who have no business being in your lane out of your lane.
