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 wasn't referring to just masters.
What you have probably gathered by now (probably even before this post) is that you can't do a "perfect" fly with 6 in a lane in short course unless your coach approves of pauses and extra kicks, which shouldn't happen multiple times per lap in a race.
I still have yet to figure out perfect fly even with no one in my lane. :)
I wasn't referring to just masters.
What you have probably gathered by now (probably even before this post) is that you can't do a "perfect" fly with 6 in a lane in short course unless your coach approves of pauses and extra kicks, which shouldn't happen multiple times per lap in a race.
I still have yet to figure out perfect fly even with no one in my lane. :)
