I know that you're there... and you have something to say.
Lets' hear it.
But seriously. Do Fitness and Lap Swimmers really read this Forum?
I wish they did, but I doubt they see the potential.
Fitness and Lap Swimmers, I'm a masters swim coach.
I watch your lanes - oh maybe 15-20% of the time I coach the masters lanes.
I see those of you lurking on the side lanes listening to the sets - and to the stroke instruction...
Watching swimmers underwater for stroke demonstrations.
Its' ok - and a really good thing.
A decent masters swim coach knows how to recruit right out of those lap swimming lanes.
Ahelee
P.S. I loved reading the thread, "As an outsider to harcore swimming..."
Finally some swimmers after my own heart.
Except that I like to recruit lap swimmers to our program!
Oh man, you guys are ruining my empty pool buzz. There is a pool I swim in out of town that I LOVE because it is beautiful and deserted. Last time the lifeguard got in and swan laps with me, she was so bored. I love that pool.
My coach enjoys the heck out of coaching Masters. He is very tired of kids with pushy parents. Masters is like Nirvana to him. He doesn't recruit swimmers. He holds six scheduled practices a week, but I think it is still very hard for many working adults with kids to make a practice.
Ahelee, referencing your comments, why does SWIMMER have such a focus on competition swimming if 70% of the readers don't compete, and the advertisers are after that 70%, in addition to the noncompeting swimming friends of the 70%? How do they see that?
Oh man, you guys are ruining my empty pool buzz. There is a pool I swim in out of town that I LOVE because it is beautiful and deserted. Last time the lifeguard got in and swan laps with me, she was so bored. I love that pool.
My coach enjoys the heck out of coaching Masters. He is very tired of kids with pushy parents. Masters is like Nirvana to him. He doesn't recruit swimmers. He holds six scheduled practices a week, but I think it is still very hard for many working adults with kids to make a practice.
Ahelee, referencing your comments, why does SWIMMER have such a focus on competition swimming if 70% of the readers don't compete, and the advertisers are after that 70%, in addition to the noncompeting swimming friends of the 70%? How do they see that?
