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 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 don't think anyone here is questioning quantity of fly for masters. I myself swim it once a week. What I would like to know is how to swim this *perfect" or high quality fly with six others in a lane. I really can't swim perfect fly solo, so just curious as to how to go about it with additional obstacles. And often our coaches will have us start the set over if stroke is broken, so that's not always an option.
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 don't think anyone here is questioning quantity of fly for masters. I myself swim it once a week. What I would like to know is how to swim this *perfect" or high quality fly with six others in a lane. I really can't swim perfect fly solo, so just curious as to how to go about it with additional obstacles. And often our coaches will have us start the set over if stroke is broken, so that's not always an option.
