Circle Swimming and Lane Jumping (it works)
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Jayhawkhud posted 20 weeks ago.
That's the way we did it in high school, many, many years ago with 50 - 60 kids thrashing a six lane pool. I wish local pools understood how it works. Lane ropes were strictly for meets. They get in the way at practice.
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jrs961 posted 20 weeks ago.
It seems like you could do this with the lane lines in. They have a lot of benefits - including reducing waves so you aren't swimming through chop and preventing backstrokers from drifting across lanes.
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I was reading the lap swim etiquette and the subject of circle swimming came up and how you can't split lanes with more than two, how to pass, if you are allowed to pass mid lap etc.
check this out, the pool that I swim at does something I haven't seen at any other pools (haven't been to that many pools though.
Durring high traffic times the lane lines are pulled, leaving only the blue line to guide you. the first lane swims counter clock wise, the next swims clock wise, the third counter... and so on. This does allow a passing swimmer to jump to the lane next to them to pass because people are still swimming in the same direction. It's crazy, it works. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this.