Yeah, I wear my glasses in the pool, plus I'm not a particularly great swimmer (oddly, due to my crooked arm, I tend to torque steer to the left), so a faceful of wake will tend to leave me spluttering and screw up my lap.
There's another stroke I saw a couple of people doing yesterday that I don't recognise at all which seems to have the arms doing a breaststroke, but the legs together in a sort of dolphin/mermaid thing - this seems to create a massive splash and a lot of noise without progressing the swimmer rapidly in any direction.
Oh, and I don't quite get the clearly capable swimmers who power up and down the pool holding floats and splashing everyone.
Sounds like butterfly, the most pointless stupid stroke ever. It's the most "designed" strike but is still inferior to front crawl in terms of speed, efficiency and practicality (as you need near-perfect form for it to work well at all, unlike the other strokes).
The guys with floats are working to some sort of program to improve their form. Just swim with arms and try and improve your time (or strokes per length), then switch to legs and repeat before putting the two together.
Yeah, probably was butterfly, although the two people I saw doing it must have been appalling at it, as I caught up with one of them by doing breaststroke (and seriously, I swim about as fast as a discarded wardrobe drifting down the canal).
The floats thing makes sense, but I don't understand why the people doing it don't do it in the fast lane, rather than clobbering up and down the utter ineptitude lane.
Mind you, the fast lane seems to be a scary place - they appear to have someone employed just to stand at the side of the pool and shout at people, which must be traumatic. :)
I don't get why they would flee the pool when it rains. People are funny. In my (indoors, beautiful building, actually, Kentish Sports Centre) you see those types as well. It could be a little depressing that we could be classified into a few variations of types, as it would sometimes seem
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Heh, good advice, though as I'm not really a particularly self-conscious person, I don't ever worry about that too much.
Then again, I don't ever get anyone talking to me in the pool - can't imagine what there is about a six-three skinhead that puts people off. ;)
I'm still very much in the slow lane, though at least now I can reasonably reliably get from end to end without stopping, and I figured out yesterday that I was doing breast stroke less efficiently than I could.
Still little chance of ever overtaking anyone though. :)
I'll have to give Kentish Town a try, as it's covered by my Swim Card, and it does look like a gorgeous building.
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I hate swimming next to Splashy Cunts. I do my cooldown swims sans goggles, so they're a real annoyance.
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There's another stroke I saw a couple of people doing yesterday that I don't recognise at all which seems to have the arms doing a breaststroke, but the legs together in a sort of dolphin/mermaid thing - this seems to create a massive splash and a lot of noise without progressing the swimmer rapidly in any direction.
Oh, and I don't quite get the clearly capable swimmers who power up and down the pool holding floats and splashing everyone.
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The guys with floats are working to some sort of program to improve their form. Just swim with arms and try and improve your time (or strokes per length), then switch to legs and repeat before putting the two together.
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The floats thing makes sense, but I don't understand why the people doing it don't do it in the fast lane, rather than clobbering up and down the utter ineptitude lane.
Mind you, the fast lane seems to be a scary place - they appear to have someone employed just to stand at the side of the pool and shout at people, which must be traumatic. :)
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Then again, I don't ever get anyone talking to me in the pool - can't imagine what there is about a six-three skinhead that puts people off. ;)
I'm still very much in the slow lane, though at least now I can reasonably reliably get from end to end without stopping, and I figured out yesterday that I was doing breast stroke less efficiently than I could.
Still little chance of ever overtaking anyone though. :)
I'll have to give Kentish Town a try, as it's covered by my Swim Card, and it does look like a gorgeous building.
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