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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Rob,
Yes I agree that mens college swimmers have higher test scores and much better graduation rates then does football. I also know that schools like UCLA, Iowa State, Nebraska, Long Beach State all cut mens swimming just so they did not have to add womens sports. Except for Long Beach State, did any of these schools cut into the football budget?
As for your other point about intellectual decay, Ford was a star foolball player at Univ. Mich. as well as an honor student and went on to Law school at Yale, in WWII was an accomplished swimmer and became a Lt. Commander in the Navy. Reagan might have known how to swim but played football at Eureka College and avoided military service and who with his high morals was living with Nancy Davis(later Nancy Reagan) while still married to to his first wife Jane. Was this the intellectual decay you speak of? I don't feel that knowing how to swim makes you a swimmer any more than knowing how to throw a football makes you a football player.
The point I was trying to make is that if almost every university and college offers football, with a full ride, for about 100 males and very few schools offer mens swimming much less with a full ride, boys will go with football.
I don't think the'll will be cementing over many pools, where would football players go to rehab and do cannonballs off the boards?
Rob,
Yes I agree that mens college swimmers have higher test scores and much better graduation rates then does football. I also know that schools like UCLA, Iowa State, Nebraska, Long Beach State all cut mens swimming just so they did not have to add womens sports. Except for Long Beach State, did any of these schools cut into the football budget?
As for your other point about intellectual decay, Ford was a star foolball player at Univ. Mich. as well as an honor student and went on to Law school at Yale, in WWII was an accomplished swimmer and became a Lt. Commander in the Navy. Reagan might have known how to swim but played football at Eureka College and avoided military service and who with his high morals was living with Nancy Davis(later Nancy Reagan) while still married to to his first wife Jane. Was this the intellectual decay you speak of? I don't feel that knowing how to swim makes you a swimmer any more than knowing how to throw a football makes you a football player.
The point I was trying to make is that if almost every university and college offers football, with a full ride, for about 100 males and very few schools offer mens swimming much less with a full ride, boys will go with football.
I don't think the'll will be cementing over many pools, where would football players go to rehab and do cannonballs off the boards?
