Funniest Swimming Stories

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I was surfing the web for my swimming class to find a couple of articles on swimming, when I came across an anecdote that was so funny I almost died laughing: I teach group and private swim lessons at our local Y and am constantly amazed and entertained by the comments from the kids. Last year, little Ben, 5 years old, was swimming backstroke, eyes to the ceiling, goggles bigger than his head, blonde hair falling in his face. I'm watching from the side, signaling to kick and streamline. All of a sudden he yells out "Miss Barbara!""What Ben?" I reply, still making kicking motions with my arms. And loudly comes this little voice echoing throughout the pool "I want to eat you like a strawberry!". I thought the lifeguards were going to fall out of their chairs. What could I say? "Keep kicking Ben, just keep kicking!" I didn't use this for my class (it's not copyrighted by the way, and it's not my personal story), but it made me realize that there's got to be a lot more swimming humour out there. (Of course I could mention the time where I smashed my head twice in one lap swimming backstroke. They moved the backstroke flags!) I'm interested to hear more...
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  • Originally posted by CCSR79 I was excited when the stroke clinic coach let us use the last 5 minutes of practice to jump out of the board. Since when do you jump "out of" a board? I always thought you jump off a board. You make it sound like you're being fired out of a cannon! Maybe this is some sort of regional thing. Anyway, back in high school a teammate accidently swam a 250 instead of 200 freestyle at a dual meet. Since he was ahead everyone turned and followed him. When he finished he told everyone he did it just to see if they would follow!
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  • Originally posted by CCSR79 I was excited when the stroke clinic coach let us use the last 5 minutes of practice to jump out of the board. Since when do you jump "out of" a board? I always thought you jump off a board. You make it sound like you're being fired out of a cannon! Maybe this is some sort of regional thing. Anyway, back in high school a teammate accidently swam a 250 instead of 200 freestyle at a dual meet. Since he was ahead everyone turned and followed him. When he finished he told everyone he did it just to see if they would follow!
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