For all of you who know Leslie the Fortress Livingston, this should help you know her better.
For all of you who don't know Leslie the Fortress Livingston, prepare for the thrill ride get-to-know-Leslie event of the year.
A little background: Leslie is the 4th woman in history in the 45-49 year age group to beat 30 seconds in the 50 SCM butterfly.
She did this at age 47, and it is possible that she is actually the FIRST woman in history this old to break 30 at the age (assuming the previous 3 were 45 or 46.)
www.youtube.com/watch
This small film will help you understand all that goes into becoming an extraordinary human being/swimmer. Oh, and there's a little about Leslie in this, too.
Just joking. It's all about Leslie. With some guest appearances by Paul Wolf, Julie "Mulie" Oplinger, Jeff "the Barbarian" Roddin, and Jim Thornton as "the narrator."
Please enjoy before Leslie forces Jim Matysek to take this down.
My favorite part is how Fort's actual swim is completely shoved to the background by the not so subtle zooming in on the bikini-clad hottie in the other half of the frame :)
Worked for me. I thought of it as a divided attention exercise.
By the way, was there any footage of the actual swim in the video? I must have missed it . . .
My favorite part is how Fort's actual swim is completely shoved to the background by the not so subtle zooming in on the bikini-clad hottie in the other half of the frame :)
I would have liked more footage of the Blue70-clad hottie...
Great swim. I want to see a birth certificate.
Worked for me. I thought of it as a divided attention exercise.
By the way, was there any footage of the actual swim in the video? I must have missed it . . .
There is a link on Fort's blog on the 8th of Dec
forums.usms.org/blog.php
While not a swimming hypochondriac, I have no problem coming up with excuses for my poor swims. Now I have a new one:
"I stayed up too late after the first night of the Mizzou Masters Meet because I got roped into watching the latest video by the Thornton Twins."
Anna Lea
It's not like I can afford to take any more hits to my manliness but here goes - I've been wearing pink swedes for years, great in all light conditions. I'll let the cracks come as appropriate now.
I found this somewhere:
Swim Hyponchondriasis: ( Hyperchondrical Disorder )
Unlike a conversion disorder where an individual perceives a functional disorder and simply use it to escape from uncomfortable situations, hypochondriacs have no real illness, but are overly obsessed over normal bodily functions. They read into the sensations of these normal bodily functions the presence of a feared disease. The main features of this disorders are:
Because of misinterpreting bodily symptoms, the patient becomes preoccupied with ideas or fears of swimming unnaturally slowly due to the illness.
Appropriate medical investigation, reassurance, and plain ol' common sense do not relieve these ideas.
These ideas are not delusional (as in Delusional Disorder) and are not restricted to concern about appearance (as in Body Dysmorphic Disorder), but are simply silly.
They cause distress that is neither clinically important nor impairs the achievement of Top 10 times.
They have lasted 6 months or longer. Some may last a lifetime (see Whiners).
The only known cure for this troublesome disorder is a video "outing" of the patient, exposing the disorder to the cold glare of day and the opprobrium of the swimmer's peers. Which sometimes works, but more often than not does not.
Bill, can you give me the citation so I can look up more than just the abstract of this critically important paper on Medline?
For what it's worth, there is some new experimental research being funded by the NIMH which suggests that a combination of the horse tranquilizer ketamine and pink-tinted goggles can substantially relieve symptoms by causing the patient to project hallucinations of his/her symptoms onto other people.
When these other people begin to believe these projections, alas, it can trigger Swim Hypochondriasis by Proxy of the Munchhausen Variety, with overtones of Folie a Dieu, which I am pretty sure means that god is laughing at you.
Thanks for the citation and your effort to drive Swim Hypochondriasis off these forums for good!
I think those were two completely orthogonal axes of greatness. Congrats Leslie. As others have noted, should I ever encounter Jim with camera (or a brother) in tow (unlikely, but you never know), I will have to remember to walk the other way. ;)
I'm quite afraid that patrolman JazzHands will be along shortly handing out demerits for this incessant hero-worshiping.
