Swim Rant

.......And heaven forbid swim lessons occur in YOUR pool, this could only serve to encourage more people to take up swimming as a life style choice and encroach on YOUR lane....... Regarding this statement....You don't get it. They hold swimming lessons throughout the day during the summer months here but have a limited time for adult lap swim. Since there is a large group of adults trying to get in shape, stay in shape, train for triathlons or swim meets, or just swimming for the sheer enjoyment of it, pool management could show us some consideration and leave the pool available for this one hour for the lap swimmers. And we do share lanes when necessary. There are times when our indoor pool and outdoor pool (a total of 12 lanes) have 2 or more swimmers in each lane. I've never told a person they could not share with me when thay ask, and if I see someone waiting, I will invite them to share the lane with me.

I suggest we all do fly and kick sets until Noodles leaves the thread... :D Noodles of Russia, do you think my rant was unwarranted? I mean this semi swimming person wanted me to actually move lanes so she could socialise...there was already a half-pool saved for "open swim" by which is meant...noodling...smooching with your lover...underwater farting etc...

I agree that is very frustrating when that happens... However, what does his body type and ethnicity have to do with it? I don't know but but oddly all my recent "Rantings" have been brought out by Asian folks...I'm sure it's a conicidence due to the multi ethnic area I live in. Possibly though, it is an ancient family feud I am unaware of and all these folks are related and thus singling me out for some transgression my ancestors inflicted up on their ancestors in times of yore.... However, the voluptous Barazilian/Portugese girls don't seem to give me any bother...just the occasional smile....I guess word is out ;)

Lighten up Francis! Excellent advice (and a great movie)! Thank you. I’ll stop my ranting now and focus on my swimming. And to those of you I offended with my rant, I sincerely apologize. Just remember some people will form their opinions about Masters swimmers based on what they pick up from this discussion forum. It would be a shame if they never got to know what great people Masters really are. And if my ranting can get the SwimStud to actually swim fly, then my job here is done.

And to those of you I offended with my rant, I sincerely apologize. Just remember some people will form their opinions about Masters swimmers based on what they pick up from this discussion forum. It would be a shame if they never got to know what great people Masters really are. And if my ranting can get the SwimStud to actually swim fly, then my job here is done. Masters are great people, they just won't stand for inconsiderate folks that jump in without warning, and/or generally interfere with their workouts. Try going to a golf course and playing through without asking... As for me "swimming fly"...let's just say that's a loose description :lmao:

It depends if it belongs to a Canadian I guess it could be spelled with an ( ' ) eg. that Canadian's swim suit. Noodeler I think you are right lots of whiners.

You’re half right.. Rants are good, but you misspelled Canadian’s Not that George can't take care of himself, but ......... I'll just jump in. If you're going to correct -in public- someone's English (even attempting a joke), please do so "correctly". The plural of Canadian is Canadians. The apostrophe after "n" and before "s" indicates a possessive (which wasn't even there.)

I am practically the only person that uses lap lanes at my pool. There is only one, and I have never shared it. Yesterday, some fat asian got in my lane. He wasn't swimming, just talking to his wife who was on a chair at the end of the lane. I was about halway done with my 1/2 mile set, and i just swam around him, hoping he would move so I didn't break my rythem. after 8 LAPS HE STILL DIDN'T MOVE!!! I then asked him to move, and he didn't even speak english. I had to ask his son to tell him to move. It was ludicrous.

Stop... peace! You're all right! Or maybe not. ;) Pools are small and the number of people wanting to use them is steadily increasing. Small space and large number wanting to use that space for different purposes = conflict, tension, misunderstanding, and annoyance. When I read some of the incidents brought up here, I think, "ooooh yeah!" SwimStud's lane invading lady should, for instance, have recognized at the very minimum that he was there first, and that telling a person who was there first that you want them to leave isn't cool. It would be like going into a restaurant and sitting at another's table, inviting others to sit, and then asking the person already there to leave because there isn't enough room for the newcomer and friends. And I admit there are people in my pool who set my teeth on edge. Sometimes people seem so rude it's hard to believe they're just new to swimming and don't know the etiquette. In some cases, they are in fact being rude and sometimes people just need to vent about such things. But often a little negotiation at the start can defuse things. For instance, someone hanging on the side just chitchatting with someone else, not looking as if they're planning to move any time soon: Me in friendly mode--"hi, are you done with this lane?" Sometimes it's "oh yeah, sorry" and they move. Or sometimes, "Not yet, I'm just resting." And okay, no big deal... I look for another lane. Or if someone's going all weird/zigzaggy on me, I might ask at some point, "excuse me, but I'm having a hard time staying out of your way. Can we split the lane in half so we're each on one side? I don't want to run into you." Most, though not all, people respond politely if you treat them politely and expect them to respond in kind. Sometimes as mentioned, the person doesn't speak English and may be totally not sure what's expected of her/him. I had that happen recently also in the case of a woman who wandered from lane to lane totally seeming to ignore people telling her what the rules were. I wonder if pools should have a required orientation for any newcomer, just as any other piece of gym equipment might. It would probably save a lot of "newbie mistakes" (and I suspect I made my share of them). Maybe not too practical... but just a thought. Also, I think it would help if pool management recognized that more and more adults do in fact want some real workout times and that they should not thus put lap swim periods at the lowest level of priority. Once I was in a lap swim period in which the other half of the pool was given over to free swimming for kids. Pool toys flew into the lanes and not much if anything was done. In fact, someone involved in managing things just said "you might want to come some other time besides that hour." Well, yes, but maybe the schedulers of these things should acknowledge that some events/activities are not compatible in the same pool. And also lifeguards and other staff members need to be a bit more assertive in keeping the activities in their appropriate places. Fortunately, in the pools where I swim, they're pretty good about that for the most part. Now an anti-rant: Kudos for a guy I swam with yesterday--although faster, he invited me to circle with him, and when I expressed some doubt telling him he was a lot faster, he said, "no problem, I can work around you." Seeing him just behind me sometimes, I'd stop at the wall to let him pass, but then he said, "don't worry, go ahead and keep swimming. I'll just swim around you." And after that, we both did our workouts at our pace and managed just fine! What a gentleman! He even complimented my stroke! We were all new to something at one time and not sure about rules/expectations. After swimming, I've talked to people I was tempted to get impatient with--and discovered that maybe they'd just learned to swim or lost a lot of weight and swimming maybe 100 yards of slow breaststroke is more than they ever thought they could do.

I had a perfectly peaceful lap swim workout last night. Not too crowded. No problem sharing lanes. But a couple days before, as I told SwimStud, I had a couple bad experiences. This was a new one. I'm in the locker room after my workout. I rested my swim bag and clothes and suit on a portion of a bench. A lady came up, shoved some of my stuff to the side (there was plenty of room), picked up my wet suit and dumped it on top of my dry clothes. I was shocked. Exactly who gave her permission to touch, move and trash my stuff?! She didn't even say a word or indicate that she needed even more room. Now, that is a real piece of work. I don't think anyone can defend that one.