Do you have a good luck charm that you take with you to every meet? A lucky pair of underwear you sleep in the night before? What's a superstition of yours when there's a big meet coming up. Do you have a certain meal you always eat or something you just have to do to swim right? Look forward to hearing what you do to bring yourself good fortune!!
~Kyra
Parents
Former Member
Indeed, Brendan does splash himself, then do the water-in-the-mouth-spit-back-into-the-pool thing.
Personally, I've noticed (thanks to other people watching me) that I do a lot of little superstitious things, mostly out of habit now than when I was younger and did them because I either thought it made me look cool, or because I am, in fact, superstitious.
When I get up towards the blocks right before a race, I turn into the superstition/have to do this a certain way champion. I always do certain stretches in a certain order, and once the goggles go on, superstitionally charged, my hands go at my sides and I shake them. I shake them until we're on the blocks, and then when I'm waiting for "take your marks" I hold them above the block and wiggle my fingers. I've done the hand shaking/finger wiggling for as long as I've been swimming competitively, and my mom thinks it's the funniest thing in the world. I never even noticed I did it after all these years, until one of my new Masters teammates said something about it (although he has this horrible habit of being completely still in the same position on the blocks, and it drives me crazy!).
Next!
Indeed, Brendan does splash himself, then do the water-in-the-mouth-spit-back-into-the-pool thing.
Personally, I've noticed (thanks to other people watching me) that I do a lot of little superstitious things, mostly out of habit now than when I was younger and did them because I either thought it made me look cool, or because I am, in fact, superstitious.
When I get up towards the blocks right before a race, I turn into the superstition/have to do this a certain way champion. I always do certain stretches in a certain order, and once the goggles go on, superstitionally charged, my hands go at my sides and I shake them. I shake them until we're on the blocks, and then when I'm waiting for "take your marks" I hold them above the block and wiggle my fingers. I've done the hand shaking/finger wiggling for as long as I've been swimming competitively, and my mom thinks it's the funniest thing in the world. I never even noticed I did it after all these years, until one of my new Masters teammates said something about it (although he has this horrible habit of being completely still in the same position on the blocks, and it drives me crazy!).
Next!
