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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I may have posted this story before. If I did here it is again.
In 1943 before I ever heard of Speedo, my coach Jimmy Thompson told me about SPEEDO GREASE.
We were at a swimming meet in Dundas a town 7 miles from our home town Hamilton, I was ten, my brother Thurlow was 12 and two other guys from our club were also 12. The team from Dundas were at the end of the age group for the under 14 relay and appeared to be giants.
Our team was very nervous. Our coach said "Don't worry boys we'll do fine we have SPEEDO GREASE". Jimmy then told us to meet him in the change room just before the race and he would put on the SPEEDO GREASE and we would just slip through the water. He also told us not to tell the other team about it, as he didn't want anyone to know about SPEEDO GREASE.
Guess what? We went up to the other team (the giants) and told them we were going to beat them, we felt great.
Just before the race we went to the dressing room, met the coach to get our SPEEDO GREASE on so we could win. He said "you don't need SPEEDO GREASE get in there and win", we did.
George Park www.swimdownhill .com
I may have posted this story before. If I did here it is again.
In 1943 before I ever heard of Speedo, my coach Jimmy Thompson told me about SPEEDO GREASE.
We were at a swimming meet in Dundas a town 7 miles from our home town Hamilton, I was ten, my brother Thurlow was 12 and two other guys from our club were also 12. The team from Dundas were at the end of the age group for the under 14 relay and appeared to be giants.
Our team was very nervous. Our coach said "Don't worry boys we'll do fine we have SPEEDO GREASE". Jimmy then told us to meet him in the change room just before the race and he would put on the SPEEDO GREASE and we would just slip through the water. He also told us not to tell the other team about it, as he didn't want anyone to know about SPEEDO GREASE.
Guess what? We went up to the other team (the giants) and told them we were going to beat them, we felt great.
Just before the race we went to the dressing room, met the coach to get our SPEEDO GREASE on so we could win. He said "you don't need SPEEDO GREASE get in there and win", we did.
George Park www.swimdownhill .com
