https://community.usms.org/swimming/f/open-water-training-and-technique/24368/sitghting-adviceMy daughter is doing an Open Water event this Saturday She&#39;s 11 and doing 2000m. She swam a 1500m this past weekend and we tried to pin down her technique for sighting her course. I felt she was picking her head up way too much, like every breath, everyen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.usms.org/thread/261809?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:38:38 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:77798539-fc30-4499-9f5e-6b537cce0a50Former MemberI was never into sighting eg: lifting the head, If the course is laid out with bouys you just have to roll the shouder with a little lift of the head and continue swimming crawl. If the waves are large that may be a different story. I usually let the others in the race do the sighting and stayed close to these guys. If you can keep an eye on something very far away and very high, like a smoke stack or buildig you will generally swim fairly straight and not lift your head. When swimming accross Lake Ontario at night I sighted on the Hamilton Beach bridge lights about 30 miles away and this let me know I was heading in the right direction.<div style="clear:both;"></div>