:badday:I just got back from practice and basically the coach told me I'd get more out of swim lessons than masters. I thought I was doing pretty well, but I guess he was blowing smoke up my skirt (or swimsuit) when he told me that during my first practice. Basically, if I don't want to swim with other people, masters probably isn't for me.
I feel badly because I thought I'd found a home with this team. I know he's trying to do his best for me and is willing to give me lessons to improve my technique and get me comfortable enough to swim with the other beginners. But it feels like I've been sent to remedial swim class. So my confidence has been completely deflated. I joined masters because I thought I'd get a better workout than swimming alone. I know being in the lane with others makes you push yourself more, and I was working my way to that, and he said he wants me on his team. But honestly, I'm not interested in being on a team. I just want to get in the freakin' pool and swim for fitness.
gobears, you're right, and so is the coach. If he wasn't interested in working with me until I was comfortable getting into a lane with others, he should have said something up front.
Honestly, it's not that I'm unaccustomed to getting knocked around. I trained shoto kan karate for eight years and I got knocked around plenty. I even did a couple of tournaments. I always had some ghastly looking bruise somewhere. But I'm not comfortable enough in the water yet to get knocked around without some panic setting in.
From the comments that I'm getting here, perhaps I'm not suited to masters. I don't know, though, why masters says it's trying to encourage adults to swim, when in fact the expectation is that if you want to be with a masters team, you'd better be fine getting whacked and shoved against the ropes.
gobears, you're right, and so is the coach. If he wasn't interested in working with me until I was comfortable getting into a lane with others, he should have said something up front.
Honestly, it's not that I'm unaccustomed to getting knocked around. I trained shoto kan karate for eight years and I got knocked around plenty. I even did a couple of tournaments. I always had some ghastly looking bruise somewhere. But I'm not comfortable enough in the water yet to get knocked around without some panic setting in.
From the comments that I'm getting here, perhaps I'm not suited to masters. I don't know, though, why masters says it's trying to encourage adults to swim, when in fact the expectation is that if you want to be with a masters team, you'd better be fine getting whacked and shoved against the ropes.
