We've all had them, your suit rips during a start, you accidentally sneeze on Michael Phelps, you burp or fart on the starting blocks, etc. (none of those happened to me...knock on wood).
What's your most embarassing swimming moment? (includes, meets, practice, anything swimming related)
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I just thought of another very embarassing but also tramautizing moment.
In high school, was swimming at practice at night and at the end of practice we had to retract the lanelines and pull the tarp over the pool since it was winter and no one else was using it except us at night.
I had just finished warm down and was hanging out on the wall. Suddenly, practical jokers of friends thought it would be funny to pull the tarp over me while I'm hanging on the wall. And immediately the tarp was over my head and half way down the 25 meter pool.
It went completely black and I freaked out. The pool was deep and I couldn't push up to get enough pressure to get the tarp up for air. I really thought for a split second that I was going to drown. Then all my senses came back to me and I remember I could swim.
I fiercely started swimming underwater and got to the wall, breathless and letting out ever expletive I could think of. Everyone stopped laughing and the whole deck got really quiet. I then realized that there were tons of parents hanging out to pick their kids up.
Horrifying. I was so embarassed, but oh my god I was so scared! :shakeshead:
I just thought of another very embarassing but also tramautizing moment.
In high school, was swimming at practice at night and at the end of practice we had to retract the lanelines and pull the tarp over the pool since it was winter and no one else was using it except us at night.
I had just finished warm down and was hanging out on the wall. Suddenly, practical jokers of friends thought it would be funny to pull the tarp over me while I'm hanging on the wall. And immediately the tarp was over my head and half way down the 25 meter pool.
It went completely black and I freaked out. The pool was deep and I couldn't push up to get enough pressure to get the tarp up for air. I really thought for a split second that I was going to drown. Then all my senses came back to me and I remember I could swim.
I fiercely started swimming underwater and got to the wall, breathless and letting out ever expletive I could think of. Everyone stopped laughing and the whole deck got really quiet. I then realized that there were tons of parents hanging out to pick their kids up.
Horrifying. I was so embarassed, but oh my god I was so scared! :shakeshead:
