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Posted By Ian Stone
Dont know if anyone else saw this:
A council has banned the backstroke in its swimming pools due to health and safety concerns, as people cant see where they are going and bang into other people, walls etc!
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Posted By John Allen
Unfortunately another tabloid over- reaction. The ban is not new it’s just that our sleuth like reporters only found out about it on a day which was thin for celeb stories.
A number of pools ask patrons to desist from backstroke at peak periods. They are sensibly managing risk just as they do when they rope off one or two lanes for people doing training to keep them apart from the “general splashing about” crowd. Pools have had “no bombing” rules for years – what’s different?
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Posted By Hilary Charlton
Not being able to see on backstroke is something of a fallacy if you do enough of it. You swim following the beams on the ceiling to keep a straight line and then you count strokes from the marker flags so that you know when the end of the pool is coming - I swim quite a lot and haven't managed to bang my head in a long time.
However, it does follow that swimming backstroke in a crowded swimming pool is extremely anti-social behaviour because of the full arm span that is required to complete this stroke - consequently you are in danger of smacking other people in the face as you go past. Backstroke, Old English Backstroke and Butterfly should be left for when the pool is not quite so crowded - this is plain common sense and I think it is quite sad that they have to put guidelines in for what is, essentially, good manners.
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Posted By Bill Morrison
Cant help but agree with you Ian. I know we all try and keep the Health and Safety message going but it really does not help when we get headlines like this one. And although the messsage has some validity, what next ban swimming? There does come a point where personal responsability comes into place, or do we want codes of practise and guidlines for almost everything we do. Just cant help feeling that we dont always help to get the right message across.
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Posted By Steve Wood
excuse my ignorance, what is Old English Backstroke??
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Posted By Rod Douglas
Don't go into the water you will get wet and catch a cold. Swimming banned...
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Posted By Hilary Charlton
Old English Backstroke is bringing both arms up at once rather than one at a time - ie butterfly on your back - not a very often taught or seen stroke but very quick.
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Posted By Steve Wood
wow. i'm not surprised it's not often taught...sounds really difficult.....
...just tried it, pulled shoulder, off to hospital - is it reportable?
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Posted By Anthony Slinger
Ahh..Bombing. Takes me back to my youth!
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Posted By Geoff Burt
You lived in London during the war then?
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Posted By Anthony Slinger
No. I was actually refering to swimming pools, sorry if I did not make that clear.
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Posted By Ken Taylor
Presumably they allow backstroke within the roped-off lanes during busy periods if not in the remainder of the pool - or would this be unfair discrimination?
I certainly engage in this activity myself at busy times in our Leisure Centre (Old English backstroke included).
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