I finally got my USMS Swimmer magazine today. Thought a poll might be in order.
My own first impressions, very well done. I was worried about lack of advertising space. I was surprised that so much space was sold. I count 5 full page adds, and many quarter page adds.
Hopefully this added potential income to USMS will allow us to better serve our members.
My overal all grade is an A-, why not a A or A+?
Well I actually liked the Freestyle Open Turns article. I have perfected my own freestyle turn where I can beat most flip turn people. Note I said most. Having a great flip turn is an awesome advantage to fast freestylers. But that leaves me out.
A good open turn allows me to get a good breathe, VERY important for someone with asthma. It also allows me to get in a perfect streamline and push off about 7 to 8 yards before the first stroke. I also have a bad wing, so taking less strokes per lap means I can sleep at night.
But now to be critical, looking at pages 18 and 19 there are several minor flaws in this "Competitive Butterfly Turn". My concern is that both new and older swimmers will think this is the "perfect" butterfly turn, and it is not. I will elaborate in another thread on this.
I am sure many people worked very hard on this issue, everyone deserves credit in making this first issue a proud new tool for our organization to spread the values of Masters swimming.
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Wayne, You like the new magazine? It isn't even worth putting into the recycle bin! Read my views in the magazine thread. I have talked with you, Mark Moore and others about this before it came out. I know that you feel that Swim magazine didn't share with USMS as much advertiser $ as you and some others inside the USMS felt it should. I hope, for USMS sake, no advertiser looks at the cover or what is printed within them, because if they do, we(USMS) will never get another $(ad) from them. Tell me again, how long is it going to be before this folly$ is to break even, and then start turning a profit. How much does USA Swimming's SPLASH make, and they have what, about 20X the number of members. Or is it the old saying that Masters swimmers are just like USS swimmers except they have more money? We are killing ourselves, who is going to fight to keep mens college swimming? If there is no college swimming why would boys swim in high school and if there is no high school swimming then boys will go out for other sports(football). It then drops into the club ranks, if no boys are on the team will there be enough girls to support the pool rent and coaches pay. We can then say goodbye to the club teams. So with no club, high school and college swim teams why would there be masters. So maybe we should learn to improve freestyle open turns, since all that will be swimming soon are old swimmers and maybe some injuried football players.
Wayne, You like the new magazine? It isn't even worth putting into the recycle bin! Read my views in the magazine thread. I have talked with you, Mark Moore and others about this before it came out. I know that you feel that Swim magazine didn't share with USMS as much advertiser $ as you and some others inside the USMS felt it should. I hope, for USMS sake, no advertiser looks at the cover or what is printed within them, because if they do, we(USMS) will never get another $(ad) from them. Tell me again, how long is it going to be before this folly$ is to break even, and then start turning a profit. How much does USA Swimming's SPLASH make, and they have what, about 20X the number of members. Or is it the old saying that Masters swimmers are just like USS swimmers except they have more money? We are killing ourselves, who is going to fight to keep mens college swimming? If there is no college swimming why would boys swim in high school and if there is no high school swimming then boys will go out for other sports(football). It then drops into the club ranks, if no boys are on the team will there be enough girls to support the pool rent and coaches pay. We can then say goodbye to the club teams. So with no club, high school and college swim teams why would there be masters. So maybe we should learn to improve freestyle open turns, since all that will be swimming soon are old swimmers and maybe some injuried football players.
