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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Never ever swim fly when anyone else is going the other way. Just don't. Coaches are extremely dumb about designing workouts around this principle.
That's it. "Jazz Hands" (I gotta say, probably the best name out here) got it right. Since I don't work out with a team I usually find a lane to myself and then I can swim fly. Adjusting the stroke to oncoming traffic just screws up your form and rhythm. What's the point? If you don't have a lane, don't swim fly. As to the aggressive/confident swimmers who are willing to hit people to get their space, I understand the impulse, but isn't this something we learn to grow out of, say, after we are 12 years old?
Never ever swim fly when anyone else is going the other way. Just don't. Coaches are extremely dumb about designing workouts around this principle.
That's it. "Jazz Hands" (I gotta say, probably the best name out here) got it right. Since I don't work out with a team I usually find a lane to myself and then I can swim fly. Adjusting the stroke to oncoming traffic just screws up your form and rhythm. What's the point? If you don't have a lane, don't swim fly. As to the aggressive/confident swimmers who are willing to hit people to get their space, I understand the impulse, but isn't this something we learn to grow out of, say, after we are 12 years old?
