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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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 am not sure that fly suffers *that* much more than the 3 other strokes from choppy conditions, given that most basic elements of the technique are sorted out. It's possible to adapt to these conditions to a large extent.
If there's one area where flyers are vulnerable to choppy conditions (no matter the level), I think it's in the area of breathing. Rapidly inhaling a good quantity of water may trigger a big spasm which generally means that you're not able to inhale for few stroke cycles.
Often, choppy conditions implies that there are a certain number of swimmers in your lane. They all represent good opportunity to draft. So, I usually end up being able to book tougher fly sets in choppy conditions given that I can draft compared to when I'm alone or first in my lane. But I'm a 200 specialist though. I almost never do some 25 all out efforts etc...
I can hold 1:30 on 2min whilst drafting no matter how choppy it is. Alone, it's more around 1:40 (at this point in the season).
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 am not sure that fly suffers *that* much more than the 3 other strokes from choppy conditions, given that most basic elements of the technique are sorted out. It's possible to adapt to these conditions to a large extent.
If there's one area where flyers are vulnerable to choppy conditions (no matter the level), I think it's in the area of breathing. Rapidly inhaling a good quantity of water may trigger a big spasm which generally means that you're not able to inhale for few stroke cycles.
Often, choppy conditions implies that there are a certain number of swimmers in your lane. They all represent good opportunity to draft. So, I usually end up being able to book tougher fly sets in choppy conditions given that I can draft compared to when I'm alone or first in my lane. But I'm a 200 specialist though. I almost never do some 25 all out efforts etc...
I can hold 1:30 on 2min whilst drafting no matter how choppy it is. Alone, it's more around 1:40 (at this point in the season).
