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.
I always feel awful about this. I am a bigger swimmer, almost 6'6" tall and 230 lbs (slimming down thanks to a low salt diet). I am not sure what my wingspan is, but I always dread hitting people, especially someone in the lane next to you. The worst is when I am wearing paddles. The paddles seem sharp.
Anyway, as for fly, when I know I am nearing someone, I will guage where they are and either glide a little further to get passed them, or take a stroke earlier, or do a 1-arm fly stroke to avoid a collision. Our lanes are small at the local Y. The other Y has wider lanes, but I tend to only swim there for events.
As for hitting people, it's tough. I feel so awful when I hit some frail women half my size in the lane next to me. She's just trying to get through set like the rest of us, and here I am being a big goon causing her pain.
Oh gees, I can relate to this... Last time I injured a young lady, she wasn't even in my lane neither.
I always feel awful about this. I am a bigger swimmer, almost 6'6" tall and 230 lbs (slimming down thanks to a low salt diet). I am not sure what my wingspan is, but I always dread hitting people, especially someone in the lane next to you. The worst is when I am wearing paddles. The paddles seem sharp.
Anyway, as for fly, when I know I am nearing someone, I will guage where they are and either glide a little further to get passed them, or take a stroke earlier, or do a 1-arm fly stroke to avoid a collision. Our lanes are small at the local Y. The other Y has wider lanes, but I tend to only swim there for events.
As for hitting people, it's tough. I feel so awful when I hit some frail women half my size in the lane next to me. She's just trying to get through set like the rest of us, and here I am being a big goon causing her pain.
