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.
If your deck change malfunction video went viral would it make you embarrassed or proud? Maybe that's a good test question to assess your fitness level!
If your deck change malfunction video went viral would it make you embarrassed or proud? Maybe that's a good test question to assess your fitness level!
That's one thing if you're an adult masters swimmer... you can be embarrassed or proud on your own terms. But if said deck change malfunction is a 12-year-old, it's a different story.
-Rick
This is also why here in New England, for age group meets, officially, cell phones are banned in locker rooms. This usually interpreted as "use of" cell phones is banned in locker rooms. It's just too easy to snap pictures with those things.
-Rick
This is also why here in New England, for age group meets, officially, cell phones are banned in locker rooms. This usually interpreted as "use of" cell phones is banned in locker rooms. It's just too easy to snap pictures with those things.
-Rick
Cell phone use is supposed to be banned in my gym's locker rooms, but it doesn't seem to stop anyone from talking on their phones. Or pretending to. :bolt:
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 was at an open water swim recently where a number of the women created a long line at the bathroom because they didn't wear their suits there and were apparently too shy to "deck change" (even in the area of the bathroom outside the stalls!) Grr... a little more deck changing and a little less modesty would have gone a long way for those of us with more serious business to attend to.Here's the extreme extension of this idea to test your modesty: a runner friend once told me they did the Berlin Marathon and that loads of men and women strip down to the buff for post-race, public showers. Not sure if that's 100% true, but, if so, I'll stick to just deck changing.
The only thing that makes sense to me at 5 am is coming the pool in my pajamas. Then I change in the locker room which you have to go through to get to the pool that I use. I go home in my pajamas too.
Eventually I get to work, not in my pajamas...
This is what I do...roll out of bed in my pajamas, throw on my fuzzy slippers, and head to the pool. I am so not a morning person, and I'm too sleepy to bother putting my suit on before heading out the door.
On the other hand, I probably set records for the most time spent getting ready before my workouts. It always takes me forever in the locker room, especially afterwards, but it works for me. First thing in the morning it's always a mad dash to grab an empty lane, and I'm just not in the mood for that when I'm still shaking off the sleep.
Technically you are only going commando if you have your gun out of it's holster so I don't think that is what you do.
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Well, I am married to a former police officer :)
Lefty has the definition right, IMO.......I've seen deck changing at Masters meets. It was before suits to the ankles......at a very LONG meet. Ya gotta have a large towel and be really good and fast at it I'd say the person I saw had done it many times.
