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A psychological disorder is: "Any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation." ~ George Kelly "The water is your friend.....you don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move." ~ Aleksandr Popov |
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The wait for another turn in that super narrow lane pool sounds like it could be a good discipline. I think forcing myself to have say 3 x 30min sessions rather than 1 x 90min one could be better for technique improvement. It remonds me of queuing for a game of pool, but waiting and hour or so at the bar is more appealing than waiting at the poolside! :D As for the "Scottish Lane Swimming" (maybe it's just in the islands), it generates chaos at the ends if more than four people are swimming in a two lane space. Increasing the space to three lanes has little or no impact as the problems come from trying to swim off the wall at 45' or from not being able to swim more than one length at a time.
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A psychological disorder is: "Any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation." ~ George Kelly "The water is your friend.....you don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move." ~ Aleksandr Popov |
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THere are other ways to swim around a buoy if this one seems too complicated, just google them and you'll see how to to the "Scottish" lane turn around. |
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![]() True, I could try to invent something Rhoda, but as you made the suggestion, and as that matches a corkscrew stroke i.e no turn, just rotation around the body's axis, I thought I'd ask you, especially as you said you were going to see if you could describe it better.
Your suggestion about googling - well yes, I have heard about people asking that google chappie but I don't have his email address ;) Of course another alternative would have been to just ignore your post :D Re the Scottish pools swimmers though, they either: 1. swam very slow breaststroke and swam the 5 metres across the ends in a gentle curve or 2. came off at 45' or more acutely or 3. walked/shuffled across the end of the pool before starting another lap Didn't see anything else really over 40+hrs in the water there. Those of us who wanted to swim laps generally found ways of negotiating with other swimmers etc to do so. One swimmer I met there used to swim in the "lane" next to the lane rope ... on the recreational side of the pool! :D Very few people swam in the bundled lanes, and even fewer swam more than a few hundred metres. The club swimmers of course swam normally in their lane swimming sessions.
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A psychological disorder is: "Any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation." ~ George Kelly "The water is your friend.....you don't have to fight with water, just share the same spirit as the water, and it will help you move." ~ Aleksandr Popov |
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![]() This morning I got a chance to refresh my memory, as I had an outdoor pool literally all to myself. It's not exactly a 90º turn, more like 120º, but you do turn a corner using this method. I swam rectangles around this pool and practiced both directions, so it does work. The main thing is to rotate back onto your front at the same time that you're spearing the recovering arm into the water.
In any case, there are many other ways to swim corners around the base of a rectangle, if you find yourself with this lane swimming arrangement again. Just Google "open water buoy turns" for numerous suggestions. e.t.a.: here's a description of the turn that I was describing, it's called a corkscrew turn: http://www.feelforthewater.com/2012/...ater-turn.html Last edited by Rhoda : 07-18-2015 at 11:03 PM. |
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