Inspired by some of the discussion in the fly thread , I was wondering how you all feel about drills.
Personally, they drive me nuts, yet everywhere people rave about TI and boy do my coaches like 'em. I find that generally drills just make me feel as though I'm learning to swim a way I will never actually swim, as opposed to helping me focus on one aspect of the stroke. For instance, last night, we were doing breaststroke drills and I spent the entire time trying to learn the drill as opposed to focusing on what we were meant to learn.
Also, I tend to learn technique by figuring out what feels right, but with drills, it feels different because you aren't doing the full stroke.
What about you?
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Originally posted by geochuck
Fartlick,
fartlek, Fartlek comes from the Swedish word for 'Speed Play'
I may be a terrible speller however I was also told, the training system was called after Desmond Fartlick. Who ever he was.
My father's first language was Swedish. He always told me that it ment playful journey. Unfortunately, my father is dead. I always thought it ment fun journey. So I looked at my Swedish lanuage dictinary/There is no Fart word there is fard which means journey. when you look up speed it gives the verb fart. Then I asked the retired minister who confimed me. He said that farte means what one might think and would never be said in public and it is an English word made to fit into Swedish by immigrants. Thank you Pastor Contance Johnson (there are many Swedish desendants in Galesburg, IL). Lek I knew means to play but many like as in silly . I looked that word up in my dictionary It means 1. ; (med dockor) play; pa~in play: ur~en out of the . 2 (kort~ ) pack 3 (-fiskars-) spawning ( My comment. This is turned into a slang for sex, I think) pairing and mating.
Lik is a very common Swedish word that means death, or dead body. It is used in slang for some one who is boring. It also means alike.
What Swedish I know is almost all American Swedish slang. When ever my father, his brother, & his sister were talking they spoke Swedish. American Swedish is almost, at least here, all slang. When my fahter got mad could he say some Swedish.
Anyway, I think we can determine that fartlek means somehting like speed play or fast play or maybe fast journey. I don't think it is fartlik -speed death although that's how you might feel when you do it! I thnk in the book written in the 1907's by the runner who died, can't remember his mane Jim Ryan maybe... He says it means speed play.
Tacks meca or tacks gotta haul. those are slang for thank you.
Originally posted by geochuck
Fartlick,
fartlek, Fartlek comes from the Swedish word for 'Speed Play'
I may be a terrible speller however I was also told, the training system was called after Desmond Fartlick. Who ever he was.
My father's first language was Swedish. He always told me that it ment playful journey. Unfortunately, my father is dead. I always thought it ment fun journey. So I looked at my Swedish lanuage dictinary/There is no Fart word there is fard which means journey. when you look up speed it gives the verb fart. Then I asked the retired minister who confimed me. He said that farte means what one might think and would never be said in public and it is an English word made to fit into Swedish by immigrants. Thank you Pastor Contance Johnson (there are many Swedish desendants in Galesburg, IL). Lek I knew means to play but many like as in silly . I looked that word up in my dictionary It means 1. ; (med dockor) play; pa~in play: ur~en out of the . 2 (kort~ ) pack 3 (-fiskars-) spawning ( My comment. This is turned into a slang for sex, I think) pairing and mating.
Lik is a very common Swedish word that means death, or dead body. It is used in slang for some one who is boring. It also means alike.
What Swedish I know is almost all American Swedish slang. When ever my father, his brother, & his sister were talking they spoke Swedish. American Swedish is almost, at least here, all slang. When my fahter got mad could he say some Swedish.
Anyway, I think we can determine that fartlek means somehting like speed play or fast play or maybe fast journey. I don't think it is fartlik -speed death although that's how you might feel when you do it! I thnk in the book written in the 1907's by the runner who died, can't remember his mane Jim Ryan maybe... He says it means speed play.
Tacks meca or tacks gotta haul. those are slang for thank you.
