[nfb-talk] swimming (was: Bard(

Wm. Ritchhart william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 31 11:39:23 UTC 2010


Measuring your strokes carefully helps.  You also have to concentrate
constantly on maintaining a equal kick on both feet.  Even then you have to
constantly check your location.  You also have to maintain an awareness to
other swimmers.  You can run over slower swimmers.  

I actually had a problem with a slow swimmer once.  A seriously overweight
guy decided that swimming with the blind guy would be the best place for him
to swim.  As he was in his own words, "fat and slow."  I told him I had no
problem sharing a lane.  I also told him to either keep up or be aware.  To
make a long story short, he was constantly getting in the way.  Of not just
me.  But of the two other sighted swimmers that were in the lane.
  

-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 3:20 PM
To: NFB Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] swimming (was: Bard(

While I certainly wouldn't claim that my blindness skills couldn't use
improving in any way, I am a reasonably good traveler with a cane but have
never been able to 
swim straight.  John, I have generally had more success swimming in a
straight line next to a wall, although I am not as serious a "lap" swimmer
as it sounds like you 
might be.  Swimming next to a wall gives me more opportunities to check my
position including by sound, than does swimming next to a rope.  I know
there are some 
compettitive blind swimmers out there, though, and while they don't
generally have multiple people in a lane, they have to aboid touching the
rope and swimming 
straight is necessary for the fastest times.  Maybe someone with that
experience could comment.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:25:08 -0500, John G. Heim wrote:

>If you swim laps and if you have a way to stay on your side of the lane,
I'd 
>like to hear about it.  I believe most lap pools have the swimmers keep 
>right like on a road. You swim up the right side of the lane and on the way

>back you come down the other side. The best I've been able to do is to swim

>with my right arm flailing out so that i can touch the lane divider on
every 
>stroke.  That doesn't really work very well.

>It isn't really very helpful to tell me my skills need to improve. After 
>all, I already asked for tips on how to improve.

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>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] swimming (was: Bard(


>>A lane for yourself alone?  Why?  Is it your swimming skills that vastly 
>>need improvement; or, perhaps your blindness skills?
>> Sincerely,
>> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
>>
>> E-Mail:
>> rforetjr at comcast dot net
>> Skype Name:
>> barefootedray
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 9:04 AM, John G. Heim wrote:
>>
>>> So you're a swimmer, huh?  Do you ever have to share a lane? If so, how 
>>> do you do it? I have never managed to do that successfully. Here at the 
>>> pool at the University of Wisconsin, I call ahead and they set a lane 
>>> aside for me so I can have it to myself. Its only a minor sacrifice 
>>> because there are usually several lanes with only one person in them. So

>>> when they reserve a lane for me, it only means one other person has to 
>>> share a lane.
>>>
>>> Have you ever done any open water swimming? I would like to enter a 
>>> triathlon but I don't like swimming tethered to someone else. I just 
>>> can't get comfortable doing that. It effects my breathing and I just 
>>> can't swim normally.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wm. Ritchhart" 
>>> <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>
>>> To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 5:04 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Bard
>>>
>>>
>>>> I really like the new digital talking book player.  I do wish it was 
>>>> still
>>>> smaller and lighter.  With all my swimming gear, lunch, back-up cane
and
>>>> everything else I have in my gym bag; it is still too heavy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Steve Johnson
>>>> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 8:22 PM
>>>> To: 'NFB Talk Mailing List'
>>>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Bard
>>>>
>>>> John, I have not tried one myself yet, so this is good to know.
Thanks,
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of John G. Heim
>>>> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 3:26 PM
>>>> To: NFB Talk Mailing List
>>>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Bard
>>>>
>>>> Man, I just got one of those new digital book players from the National
>>>> Library Service.  You might wonder why a computer nerd like myself took

>>>> so
>>>> long to ask for one of those things. Well, I guess mostly the reason is

>>>> that
>>>> I have 2 tape players that I bought myself plus the one from NLS. So
now 
>>>> I
>>>> have to use the player from the NLS all of the time.
>>>>
>>>> But holy cow, is this thing nice. I downloaded a book and put it on a 
>>>> USB
>>>> thumb drive and was listening to a book amybe 3 minutes after getting
>>>> started. And navigation within the book is very nice.
>>>>
>>>> Your tax dollars at work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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