I recently got a email from my age group swim team. They sent out a mass email about deck changing. Ohio rules now are if you are caught changing on deck before or after practice you are then suspended for a week and also the next swim meet. If caught at a meet doing this, you will be immediately removed from meet and the team will suspend you one week.
Is this pretty much a standard rule across the club teams or now a USS rule? I suppose I can see how this can become an issue and concern. Have to say I have not seen many masters doing the deck change, although I admit, I have deck changed at a masters meet but not at a USS meet.
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I don't deck change at the pool but I do surfer-change at the lake or ocean, or in the car before/after a run, in the parking garage at work, etc. I have gotten the towel technique down pretty well. A couple of weeks ago I did the surfer change in mixed company after a lake swim. Some brief moments of worry that the towel might slip, but it all worked out. Who really cares anyway.
I don't wear my suit under clothes to the pool. That is weird. My boys like to be free... and dry. My suit tends to always be damp and chloriney. I get up for practice, throw on some sweats, iron my work clothes, and bring those with me to the pool along with my swim suit.
I occasionally go commando coming home from the pool, or from a run, or during a run. Or to work when I forget to bring underwear to the pool. OK that only happened once. But I wasn't about to drive back home.
I don't deck change at the pool but I do surfer-change at the lake or ocean, or in the car before/after a run, in the parking garage at work, etc. I have gotten the towel technique down pretty well. A couple of weeks ago I did the surfer change in mixed company after a lake swim. Some brief moments of worry that the towel might slip, but it all worked out. Who really cares anyway.
I don't wear my suit under clothes to the pool. That is weird. My boys like to be free... and dry. My suit tends to always be damp and chloriney. I get up for practice, throw on some sweats, iron my work clothes, and bring those with me to the pool along with my swim suit.
I occasionally go commando coming home from the pool, or from a run, or during a run. Or to work when I forget to bring underwear to the pool. OK that only happened once. But I wasn't about to drive back home.
