May/June cover of USMS Swimmer

Originally posted by aquageek Let me answer your questions this way. If I had an interest in other forms of exercise to supplement my swimming, I'd buy a book or magazine on that topic. I don't need my swimming magazine, published 6 X a year to have it's feature story on water aerobics. And, since you asked about my 100 free time I'd much rather have the featured cover story in a swimming magazine dedicated to a total strategy for the 100 with input from some of our better swimmers (Smith, etc) and coaches (Kerry O'Brien, apologies for spelling). I totally disagree that we should stoop to a group that will never swim for fitness or in meets to increase membership. That's not what I want USMS to be. We gonna have noodling classes at Nationals? Might be ok if beer were involved. You can't be all things to all people and I think concentrating on the fitness and competitive bunch is perfectly fine. I'm starting to understand Smith's poll better and better now. Stoop to a group? Are you a better person than they are? Your life is somehow more valuable or worthy of praise? Like I commented to Craig, I am not a big fan of aqua aerobics/noodling but USMS is not just about racing. From what I have seen in USMS Swimmer, most of the content does deal with competition and I suspect that the issue in question has competitive information in it as well. It's not as if the entire issue was devoted to aqua aerobics, was it?

Originally posted by aquageek Let me answer your questions this way. If I had an interest in other forms of exercise to supplement my swimming, I'd buy a book or magazine on that topic. I don't need my swimming magazine, published 6 X a year to have it's feature story on water aerobics. And, since you asked about my 100 free time I'd much rather have the featured cover story in a swimming magazine dedicated to a total strategy for the 100 with input from some of our better swimmers (Smith, etc) and coaches (Kerry O'Brien, apologies for spelling). I totally disagree that we should stoop to a group that will never swim for fitness or in meets to increase membership. That's not what I want USMS to be. We gonna have noodling classes at Nationals? Might be ok if beer were involved. You can't be all things to all people and I think concentrating on the fitness and competitive bunch is perfectly fine. I'm starting to understand Smith's poll better and better now. Stoop to a group? Are you a better person than they are? Your life is somehow more valuable or worthy of praise? Like I commented to Craig, I am not a big fan of aqua aerobics/noodling but USMS is not just about racing. From what I have seen in USMS Swimmer, most of the content does deal with competition and I suspect that the issue in question has competitive information in it as well. It's not as if the entire issue was devoted to aqua aerobics, was it?