A quick dual comment about synchronized swimming:
A) it's ridiculous in so many ways, from the constant smiling and ultra enunciated, Prussian body language, to the nearly hissy-fit splashing frenzy and nose clips that make these women look like painter Wilhem De Kooning's weasel women models
B) despite this, the top practitioners of the sport make it also one of the most amazing displays of human talent you can imagine
Did any of you see the Martin Short/Harry Shearer male synchronized swimming spoof on SNL? A classic. This shows how easy it is to lampoon the sport.
On the other hand, I watched some of the FINA coverage of SS last week, and I am still in awe that our species is capable of execting such maneurvers in such perfect synchrony.
Utterly unbeliveable. Maybe USMS should have a synchronized swimming competition at one of the national championships. If they open this up to any one who wants to do it, are there any 50-54 year old males who would like to form a team with me? I think we should be allowed to use snorkels, though. Or scuba tanks.
Syncro swimmers are the ones that didn't make the swimming or diving teams. Polo players are the best swimmers who also like to beat people up while swimming.
Swimmers don't like divers due to the weird small towels they use. Swimmers don't like polo players but respect them out of fear they will whizz one of those balls as us while swimming laps. Polo players know this fear factor and date the syncro swimmers. I don't know if the women polo players date the male synchro swimmers but I doubt it strongly.
So, in summary, this is all pointless rambling because hockey players are the most fit athletes because they do syncro swimming on a frozen pool.
Here's the real question. Why do the best swimmers tend to wear the body suits (i.e. Thorpe) but the best divers wear the smallest, most undersized Speedos they can find?
Syncro swimmers are the ones that didn't make the swimming or diving teams. Polo players are the best swimmers who also like to beat people up while swimming.
Swimmers don't like divers due to the weird small towels they use. Swimmers don't like polo players but respect them out of fear they will whizz one of those balls as us while swimming laps. Polo players know this fear factor and date the syncro swimmers. I don't know if the women polo players date the male synchro swimmers but I doubt it strongly.
So, in summary, this is all pointless rambling because hockey players are the most fit athletes because they do syncro swimming on a frozen pool.
Here's the real question. Why do the best swimmers tend to wear the body suits (i.e. Thorpe) but the best divers wear the smallest, most undersized Speedos they can find?
