I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY ADVICE/HELP WITH SWIMMING STRATEGY! WHAT IS THE BEST TO SWIM A RACE PARALLEL TO THE SHORE? GO OUT AND BEYOND THE WAVES OR USE THEM TO HELP BOUY ME ALONG AND FIGHT THEM AS WELL? tHANKS ANYONE! GINA
When you have two experienced swimmer in open water it would not be a rescue like it would be if you were a lifeguard. You would not be rescueing a struggling victim. You would be assisting someone who has experience in the water or you have picked the wrong buddy to swim with.
George raises a good point. If you have some flailing guy next to you, then you stay away from him because he will bring you down (reminds me of when I tried to teach a 300 lb. Down's kid how to swim--thought I was a goner). Which raises the point of the purpose of a buddy while swimming (who needs a buddy when a 300 lb good natured Down's child has you in a death grip as you sink peacefully to the bottom of the pool--ah sweet memories).
I usually swim alone in the open water but feel more comfortable with somebody else in the vicinity. I guess the only benefit a good swimmer has in a buddy is in the unlikely event that the last open micron of a mostly occluded carotid or left anterior descending artery closes off just when one is furthest from shore hurling that person into unconsciousness and the bottom of the lake.:drown::drown:
When you have two experienced swimmer in open water it would not be a rescue like it would be if you were a lifeguard. You would not be rescueing a struggling victim. You would be assisting someone who has experience in the water or you have picked the wrong buddy to swim with.
George raises a good point. If you have some flailing guy next to you, then you stay away from him because he will bring you down (reminds me of when I tried to teach a 300 lb. Down's kid how to swim--thought I was a goner). Which raises the point of the purpose of a buddy while swimming (who needs a buddy when a 300 lb good natured Down's child has you in a death grip as you sink peacefully to the bottom of the pool--ah sweet memories).
I usually swim alone in the open water but feel more comfortable with somebody else in the vicinity. I guess the only benefit a good swimmer has in a buddy is in the unlikely event that the last open micron of a mostly occluded carotid or left anterior descending artery closes off just when one is furthest from shore hurling that person into unconsciousness and the bottom of the lake.:drown::drown:
