What are your favorite swimming jargon terms ?

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Former Member — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:12:55 GMT

when surfing the internet for deals on swim suits: "grab bag" :D

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Former Member — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:53:01 GMT

Fast and hard great terminology. They go well together but I prefer long and slow for the build up to go fast and hard. Practice makes perfect as long as you practice perfect.

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Former Member — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 06:01:18 GMT

As a coach, I like "fast" as opposed to "hard" because I want to get a certain attitude from my swimmers. I want them getting across the pool as fast as they can, and not necessarily spending the most energy possible doing it. However, I think it's mostly an intellectual point, because to a swimmer brain, "fast" and "hard" in a workout mean the same thing. And I think refusing to say "workout" is silly. Again, it's good to have the attitude that what we are doing is practicing for our races, but the way we do that is by working out!

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Michael Heather — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 01:49:56 GMT

This is a twist on the thread, but it is something that gets my knickers in a bunch. Politically correct swimming terms like "practice" instead of "workout", swimming "fast" instead of "hard". These and others were dropped on us thinking that we would be less stressed out by the terminology. Practice gives off the feling of yoga in draperies, all light and airy with no sweat or strain. You can practice your golf swing, but don't workout in the pool, that would be too much like, um, oh, work. And no one should have to work in our enlightened society, should they?

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Former Member — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:37:53 GMT

How's that?

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Former Member — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:11:34 GMT

Mr. Moose is a good boy cause he likes to take his vacations in the summer time.....;)

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Former Member — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:19:17 GMT

LOL!!! Oh, wow, that's hilarious!

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Former Member — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:36:01 GMT

Big Brother Sir.... I was a good boy and didn't write a thing....I just smiled....

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Former Member — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:56:50 GMT

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Former Member — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 15:05:50 GMT

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Former Member — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:04:10 GMT

Jaken....which means loafing.....

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Former Member — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:08:59 GMT

Originally posted by Allen Stark Newspaper coverage of a High School meet had one swimmer winning the "grueling 400 year freestyle." I think I've swum that race a couple of times.... Well, at least it felt like I did....

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Former Member — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:21:56 GMT

LOL! 400 Years?! That IS long! When I was manging my high school swim team, I wasn't familiar with some of the terminology myself. One memorable time was when I tried to figure out what IM (Individual Medley) stood for and once wrote "400 Independent Medley" on the white board with a Dry Erase marker. The team and coach didn't let that one down for weeks.

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Former Member — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:17:34 GMT

Apparently a few people out there run news articles on "intermediate medley" :D news.google.com/news

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Allen Stark — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:14:52 GMT

During and right after the Masters Worlds In Italy you could Google the computer Italian to English translation of the results. There were some great events like the"200M long bathtub frog" and the "3000M ditch swim".

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Allen Stark — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 01:14:03 GMT

Newspaper coverage of a High School meet had one swimmer winning the "grueling 400 year freestyle." Now thats a long race

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Former Member — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:55:31 GMT

We always thought that "fartleks" (fart licks) in our workouts were the coolest, just because of the name. (High school boys. What would you expect?)

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Former Member — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:32:39 GMT

Originally posted by Guvnah "fartleks" (fart licks) You said fart licks. Cool. (Insert Bevis and Butthead laughs here).

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Former Member — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:16:05 GMT

One of our starters called swimmers up for the 200-yard "intermediate melody" once back when.

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Former Member — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:02:23 GMT

I've seen "intermediate medley" in local newspapers and heard commentators refer to the "IM relay."