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.
I try to do fly when I have an opportunity to do it without collision, but focus on quality when when I do. You don't have to do gobs of fly to be decent at it as long as you have a good technique. I train almost exclusively freestyle but can do a passable 100 or 200 fly because I swam it a lot as a chlld and have some residual technique- as long as you're not learning it I really think you can minimize swimming it in practice. :2cents:
I try to do fly when I have an opportunity to do it without collision, but focus on quality when when I do. You don't have to do gobs of fly to be decent at it as long as you have a good technique. I train almost exclusively freestyle but can do a passable 100 or 200 fly because I swam it a lot as a chlld and have some residual technique- as long as you're not learning it I really think you can minimize swimming it in practice. :2cents:
