Rather than continue to listen to the incessant whining of people who want to turn back the clock on swimming, I'd prefer to know at what point/date you would desire to stop the technology advances.
Name a year, state your opinion(s) as to why. Then, after you do that, which will obviously be around the time you were relevant in swimming, please tell me why innovations that assisted you should be allowed, but not subsequent innovations.
In other words, please explain why you should be allowed to benefit from advances in your era but not today's swimmers.
Your subsequent assignment will be to explain how we would attract swimers (including boys who you allege are leaving in packs, not supported by facts) to a sport that is regressing technology, completely and totally in an opposite direction of every other sport out there.
Hey Aquageek
I would stop at 1968 when I was in the first year of being on my high school swim team.
At that time, there were no such things as “technology or innovations” in swimming (except for the rather mundane lane dividers). The “advances” at that time were hours spent in the pool, in the weight room, and practicing general fitness. We went in the pool wearing just simple and comfy briefs (which were the standard uniform issued throughout the city’s school district) and after that, it was up to the individual and their innate talent and training.
I believe that the art of swimming was at its finest in the 1960s and accordingly, I feel that today’s swimmers should be allowed to benefit from all the advances that were available at just that particular point in time.
In regard to your last statement, I would try to attract newcomers to swimming by demonstrating that it is truly the most elite (and highly admirable) of any athletic activity because it is one in which victory (and your subsequent symbol of character) is determined by nothing but the superiority of your mind, your body, and your perseverance. :applaud:
Remember “If you ain’t really gettin’ your body wet all over, you ain’t really swimin'."
Dolphin 2
Rather than continue to listen to the incessant whining of people who want to turn back the clock on swimming, I'd prefer to know at what point/date you would desire to stop the technology advances.
Name a year, state your opinion(s) as to why. Then, after you do that, which will obviously be around the time you were relevant in swimming, please tell me why innovations that assisted you should be allowed, but not subsequent innovations.
In other words, please explain why you should be allowed to benefit from advances in your era but not today's swimmers.
Your subsequent assignment will be to explain how we would attract swimers (including boys who you allege are leaving in packs, not supported by facts) to a sport that is regressing technology, completely and totally in an opposite direction of every other sport out there.
Hey Aquageek
I would stop at 1968 when I was in the first year of being on my high school swim team.
At that time, there were no such things as “technology or innovations” in swimming (except for the rather mundane lane dividers). The “advances” at that time were hours spent in the pool, in the weight room, and practicing general fitness. We went in the pool wearing just simple and comfy briefs (which were the standard uniform issued throughout the city’s school district) and after that, it was up to the individual and their innate talent and training.
I believe that the art of swimming was at its finest in the 1960s and accordingly, I feel that today’s swimmers should be allowed to benefit from all the advances that were available at just that particular point in time.
In regard to your last statement, I would try to attract newcomers to swimming by demonstrating that it is truly the most elite (and highly admirable) of any athletic activity because it is one in which victory (and your subsequent symbol of character) is determined by nothing but the superiority of your mind, your body, and your perseverance. :applaud:
Remember “If you ain’t really gettin’ your body wet all over, you ain’t really swimin'."
Dolphin 2
