Is any one else bugged with the quality of swimming shown in commercials. It is very rare to see any one who is at all smooth in the water. It especially bugs me in health club ads as they are showing what people are striving for & the swimmers are flailers.(There is a lite beer ad where a man & a women are racing & they are clearly swimmers) Surely there must be some actors who really swim.
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Public Schools a joke, surely you jest (oh wait I live in Oregon where they were asking some teachers to work for free or even cut days off the school calendar to help balance the budget due to fiscal changes, even Gary Trudeau of Doonsbury poked fun of Oregon).
In regards to the commercial and how realistic is it - my experience as a high school swim and water polo coach is that the sport is not as pure and innocent as we would like to think. I am not saying that all high school swimmers are addicts but the swim team members is a represantation of society so you are more than likely to get someone who hhas or is using a substance.
In regards to using real swimmers in commercials, I was an extra in a McDonalds commercial and they used some real swimmers - Pablo Morales, Carolyn Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead.
Public Schools a joke, surely you jest (oh wait I live in Oregon where they were asking some teachers to work for free or even cut days off the school calendar to help balance the budget due to fiscal changes, even Gary Trudeau of Doonsbury poked fun of Oregon).
In regards to the commercial and how realistic is it - my experience as a high school swim and water polo coach is that the sport is not as pure and innocent as we would like to think. I am not saying that all high school swimmers are addicts but the swim team members is a represantation of society so you are more than likely to get someone who hhas or is using a substance.
In regards to using real swimmers in commercials, I was an extra in a McDonalds commercial and they used some real swimmers - Pablo Morales, Carolyn Steinseifer and Nancy Hogshead.
