Before allocating pool space, the coach should know how the plan will impact swimmers. Even when faced with facility limitations, the coach must strive to find swimming formations that enhance the effectiveness of training. Coordinating Space and Time Few things are as challenging as coordinating space and time. Both of these entities have a mind of their own. This is why coaches turn to choreography.
Coordination requires a master plan.
In a typical set of climb-out swims, swimmers start from a dive. They emerge after every one-length swim and scurry back to the start. When a swimmer doesn't make it back to the starting point on time, the space in the pool where the swimmer belonged goes unfilled. Seconds later, two swimmers vie for a place to swim. The problem here is not lack of space or insufficient time, but the failure to make these elements work together.