Backman ends his posts with "On the next top". The other day someone said that at practice and I hadn't heard it since I was about 12. We use digital clocks now!
I'd love to hear words/sayings used in workout or at meets. Here are some used around our pool:
yak or honk, aka to throw up
the hood's open and the tires are coming off- aka exceedingly tired
switching to guns- aka nothing else is working
"Nightmare on Creek Street" aka a workout to avoid
Irish Mile- aka Kerry's mile (11 laps, 10, 9, 8 etc)
toy box- aka a swimmer who not only has, but uses, every piece of swimming equipment known to man!
garbage can lids- aka TYR swim paddles (sizes 3 and up!)
ugly- aka a very hard set
resource lane- aka the lane we all occasionally end up in where nobody does the set right! nor understands it no matter how many times it is explained!!! (special education reference)
That's all for now... please add on :)
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Sand bagger (n) or too Sandbag a set : like a sammy save up, someone who swims the start of a set very easy and waits til the last swim/rep to go all out (ie descending 50's goes a 48, 46, 44, 42 and then the last one is a 30).
Carrying the orchestra - famailier with the piano( in butterfly where the stroke starts to falter), well the orchestra is more painful (both to swim and watch).
Selling buicks - throwing up (just elongate buuuuiiiiiiiiccccck, has a nice sound to it)
Draftmaster - someone who leaves right after the swimmer in front of them (usually 1 or 2 seconds behind) in order to draft off of them.
Triathletes - those that only swim freestyle/front crawl (just kidding on this one).
Sand bagger (n) or too Sandbag a set : like a sammy save up, someone who swims the start of a set very easy and waits til the last swim/rep to go all out (ie descending 50's goes a 48, 46, 44, 42 and then the last one is a 30).
Carrying the orchestra - famailier with the piano( in butterfly where the stroke starts to falter), well the orchestra is more painful (both to swim and watch).
Selling buicks - throwing up (just elongate buuuuiiiiiiiiccccck, has a nice sound to it)
Draftmaster - someone who leaves right after the swimmer in front of them (usually 1 or 2 seconds behind) in order to draft off of them.
Triathletes - those that only swim freestyle/front crawl (just kidding on this one).
