I overheard some ladies talking yesterday and instructing their kids not to get in the ocean. Here are two of their reasons: 1) they just had lunch and lady said you'll get cramps, you can't swim for an hour, and 2) your face will turn to scales while food is in your stomach.
Later, a young woman was advising me on my newest problem, leg cramps, and she told me it was impossible for me to get leg cramps because I wasn't sprinting. She said that leg cramping is caused from dehydration and only a person who sprints will get dehydrated; not distance people, so she suggested I see a doctor.
We all know these are pretty ridiculous, have you overheard anyone advising others about "their myths?" The people making these comments were from England.
Heres the best one: Black people can't learn to swim - its genetic, their bodies sink.
My hubby heard this from his buddies at military school many years back and since he heard it from so many of them, he believed them. Until the day he met a black NAVY SEAL! Then this myth went out the window for my hubby.
For a number of reasons that one should have died a long time ago. The first national record I ever saw was in high school when Drew Brown, an African American, tied the National Prep School record for the 50 free in, I believe, 20.8 in 1969 or 1970. I don't remember which school he swam for (I suspect Deerfield, Exeter or Andover) but he did it in the Mt Herman pool.
Leo
Heres the best one: Black people can't learn to swim - its genetic, their bodies sink.
My hubby heard this from his buddies at military school many years back and since he heard it from so many of them, he believed them. Until the day he met a black NAVY SEAL! Then this myth went out the window for my hubby.
For a number of reasons that one should have died a long time ago. The first national record I ever saw was in high school when Drew Brown, an African American, tied the National Prep School record for the 50 free in, I believe, 20.8 in 1969 or 1970. I don't remember which school he swam for (I suspect Deerfield, Exeter or Andover) but he did it in the Mt Herman pool.
Leo
