Did you go straight into Masters Swimming or did you take time off.

Originally posted by fanstone And yet the quality of swimming in Brazil is so low that I actually win plenty of meets in my age group. Take care, billy fanstone Fanstone: Although in Latinamerica we do not have a World quality level, Brazil has actually the highest level of the region, I remember that when I have participated in Latinamerican Masters Championships and I find Brazilians in my heats, they are always in the four or five line (fastest lines). Regarding olympic games, it is not rare to find Brazilians at the finals. Ragarding Mexicans, I understand that we have only one swimming medal in the history of olympic games. In my case as in the case of many of the Master swimmers in Mexico, I stated to swim as a Master 12 years ago, with no other training nor swimming lesson before that, I knew how to swim free style because my father taugh us (my brothers and I) when children, but I remember it was a big challange for me to end a 500 meter training, now I am swimming around 5,000 meters five days a week, and even when my times are very far away from top 10 World times or even top 10 Mexican times, I am ready to participate at the Worlds at Standford and appear in every result sheet of my five events, I guess every one has its own goals.

Originally posted by fanstone And yet the quality of swimming in Brazil is so low that I actually win plenty of meets in my age group. Take care, billy fanstone Fanstone: Although in Latinamerica we do not have a World quality level, Brazil has actually the highest level of the region, I remember that when I have participated in Latinamerican Masters Championships and I find Brazilians in my heats, they are always in the four or five line (fastest lines). Regarding olympic games, it is not rare to find Brazilians at the finals. Ragarding Mexicans, I understand that we have only one swimming medal in the history of olympic games. In my case as in the case of many of the Master swimmers in Mexico, I stated to swim as a Master 12 years ago, with no other training nor swimming lesson before that, I knew how to swim free style because my father taugh us (my brothers and I) when children, but I remember it was a big challange for me to end a 500 meter training, now I am swimming around 5,000 meters five days a week, and even when my times are very far away from top 10 World times or even top 10 Mexican times, I am ready to participate at the Worlds at Standford and appear in every result sheet of my five events, I guess every one has its own goals.