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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Mary,
My grandmother was born in Wisconsin when her father was there to work on one of his uncle's farms. Do you know where in Norway youor family is from. My great grandmother was born in Oslo. My great grandfather was born in Gran Matiland (it is a town on a highland fjord). Their housekeeper, Ruth, was born on a farm up very north. She was sent to work for my great grandfather to raise my grandmother because she "was too ugly to get married" every one said. She spoke a dialect of Norwegian htat is said to now be dead. Many linguists believe that in those valley, farming communities Norwefgian broke off from Swedish.
Were you brought up LCA or Missouri Synod. We were LCA. My Swedish grandparents were one of the original families who started the church. Very LCA. At the church in Clermont, IA, they used a song board. Once I asked my mom why they used one & we didn't have one in the church in Galesburg. She told me that it was because there were so many people who only spoke Norwegian in Clermont that was the only way they could follow the service. I didn't occur to me until I was in high school that if they couldn't follow the English-printed order of confession, they wouldn't be able to read the service anyway. So what did it matter!
When we were in Iowa, we couldn't watch TV or listen to the radio on Sundays. My great grandfather wouldn't allow it. We would sneak over to my grandmother's cousins house (she was related to both of them but they weren't related to each other) there we could listen to the Cubs onthe radio. My great grandfather was so ole that if wqe had turned onthe TV or a radio he wouldn't have been able to do anything about it. One thing great about Scandinavian immigrants is how important sports were to them. Norwegians in Iowa are very much responsible for that state having had great women's programs for over one hundred years.
Do you still have any relatives in Norway? I have several who are named Liervik. Leirvik is sort of the Norwegian Johnson. They live mostly around Oslo. Oslo is one of the most beautiful cities inthe world. I had two cousins who were ski jumpers. I think both participated in the Olympics. They were absolutely crazy but extremely intense. Can you imagine jumping off of a ski jump?
One thing so great about threads is if people don't want to read this, they don't have to!
Mary,
My grandmother was born in Wisconsin when her father was there to work on one of his uncle's farms. Do you know where in Norway youor family is from. My great grandmother was born in Oslo. My great grandfather was born in Gran Matiland (it is a town on a highland fjord). Their housekeeper, Ruth, was born on a farm up very north. She was sent to work for my great grandfather to raise my grandmother because she "was too ugly to get married" every one said. She spoke a dialect of Norwegian htat is said to now be dead. Many linguists believe that in those valley, farming communities Norwefgian broke off from Swedish.
Were you brought up LCA or Missouri Synod. We were LCA. My Swedish grandparents were one of the original families who started the church. Very LCA. At the church in Clermont, IA, they used a song board. Once I asked my mom why they used one & we didn't have one in the church in Galesburg. She told me that it was because there were so many people who only spoke Norwegian in Clermont that was the only way they could follow the service. I didn't occur to me until I was in high school that if they couldn't follow the English-printed order of confession, they wouldn't be able to read the service anyway. So what did it matter!
When we were in Iowa, we couldn't watch TV or listen to the radio on Sundays. My great grandfather wouldn't allow it. We would sneak over to my grandmother's cousins house (she was related to both of them but they weren't related to each other) there we could listen to the Cubs onthe radio. My great grandfather was so ole that if wqe had turned onthe TV or a radio he wouldn't have been able to do anything about it. One thing great about Scandinavian immigrants is how important sports were to them. Norwegians in Iowa are very much responsible for that state having had great women's programs for over one hundred years.
Do you still have any relatives in Norway? I have several who are named Liervik. Leirvik is sort of the Norwegian Johnson. They live mostly around Oslo. Oslo is one of the most beautiful cities inthe world. I had two cousins who were ski jumpers. I think both participated in the Olympics. They were absolutely crazy but extremely intense. Can you imagine jumping off of a ski jump?
One thing so great about threads is if people don't want to read this, they don't have to!
