here you go, the thread you've been waiting for
SWIM RANT
RANT to your hearts content about aspects of
SWIMMING and SWIMMERS that bug YOU
I encourage you to be good natured and hilarious
you may find it cathartic
Ande
Not Don I had meet him and was at swim meets that he was in (he was an age grouper) we never competed against each other.
However even if you guessed like in the movie Don't Say A Word with Mike Douglas "I'll never tell" untill he passes and who knows I might get to the big pool in the ski before he does.
I raced him a few times he was a great swimmer. Raced him at Yale University pool never able to beat him but had beaten John Devitt from Australia a couple of times. It was not him either. Richard I believe liked golf better then swimming.
related to being kicked by adjacent breaststrokers....
Having to expain to your wife that those scratches on your back are really from the backstroker in the next lane.
People who constantly criticize people who have to use fins or give them that "look." I have run into so many folks who think "real" swimming can only be done without fins and scorn even limited use of fins, which seem to have some real value when used to strengthen the core or in drills. I have to use fins a majority of my workouts, especially for fly and free, because I have awful, cranky rotator cuffs loaded with scar tissue and loose cartilege from my youth and I do not choose to have surgery. I realize it gives me artficial speed during practice, but I am tired of people making me feel bad about using fins. I see people dragging out those huge paddles all the time and I don't complain. I don't use paddles and I just let them go ahead. Besides, fin use doesn't seem to hinder me unduly in my own racing. I'm doing just fine as a achy shoulder fin addict. Leslie
Having to leave in the middle of a 5 am workout to call home because you can't remember if you re-set the alarm for your hubby - did it this am.
Having to go all the way to the front lobby to use a phone because the swim office doesnt open til 6:30am -
Having to cover up per Y policy while you run to the front lobby - wouldnt want to offend the spandex crowd in the exercise room....:rolleyes:
And re the "flower cap" in the earlier rants - I believe I saw one in the Kastway catalog, thougth of getting it for a team mate...
Swimmers that wear fins for the whole workout.
Leslie, Let me clarify that.....Swimmers THAT DON'T HAVE SHOULDER PROBLEMS that use fins for the whole workout!
I had shoulder surgery years ago and had to use fins a lot in my rehab. I had to slowly build my shoulder back....very painful and took a long time. I know how frustrating a painful shoulder is! If my comment offended you, I'm sorry.
Don't I wish. But I do OK in meets without them. I try to take them off more before a meet. In either Japan or China, can't remember which, monofin swimming is a separate sport. Leslie
