I'm just now getting around to reading the article by Eney Jones about 90-degree buoy turns in the latest issue of Swimmer. I'll admit that I never thought of turning like this before even though I've done numerous OW races with buoy turns. Do lots of people use this technique? Will lots more try it after seeing the article? :)
Yeah, I almost always hit the buoy in at least a crowd of four with everyone trying different techiques. It's a slow turn, but it represents less than one half of one percent of my total race time. Also never finished less than 5 seconds behind anyone in my categories so whatever time I've lost in a slow turn means nothing.
Yeah, I almost always hit the buoy in at least a crowd of four with everyone trying different techiques. It's a slow turn, but it represents less than one half of one percent of my total race time. Also never finished less than 5 seconds behind anyone in my categories so whatever time I've lost in a slow turn means nothing.
