Swim Slang is like the urban dictionary for the swimming community,
It's the terms we use.
please submit:
1) the word or phrase or acronym or term,
2) it's definition, links to videos, &
3) USE it in a sentence
4) offer other forms of the word
ie
SDK is an acronym for Streamline Dolphin Kick,
some call it underwaters or dolphins.
It's where swimmers dolphin kick underwater off of starts & turns.
You tend to see them more in sprints
Michael Ross has an excellent SDK.
SDKed, SDKing, SDKs, SDKer
lawnchair - some backstrokers with poor body position appear to be lounging in lawnchairs. They swim backstroke uphill and bend their hips and knees all the time. You don't want to hear your backstroke described this way. If you do, you need to straighten out your body and start breaking the surface of the water with your feet when you kick.
sack of potatoes - there are different strategies for how to dive off the blocks. Most people figure out that the outstretched hands should enter first and the feet should enter last. There are also the spazzes who gyrate in mid-air and end up with their hands and feet entering at the same time and their rear ends entering last, often accompanied by a huge noise. At any Masters meet, you are probably going to see a few bellyflops, perfectly flat entries that are perhaps the result of a foot slipping on the block. On rare occasions though, you get to watch a sack of potatoes dive into the water. It looks like someone threw a bag of potatoes off the starting block. These poor folks' feet hit the water first, and their hands and head enter the water last. They do not move in mid-air. And they do it the same way every time. Is it fear? I don't know. Whenever I see it, I feel amused and sad at the same time.
zone zero - ok, you've probably never heard this one. I invented it and have never actally used the term in conversation. It describes lap swimmers who swim with their heads out of the water, their hair dry, and no elevated pulse rate. They are not working on their Vo2max, their anaerobic threshold, or their aerobic threshold. They do not disturb the water. They are barely moving. It's kind of impressive in a weird way, exercising without ever entering Zone 1.
lawnchair - some backstrokers with poor body position appear to be lounging in lawnchairs. They swim backstroke uphill and bend their hips and knees all the time. You don't want to hear your backstroke described this way. If you do, you need to straighten out your body and start breaking the surface of the water with your feet when you kick.
sack of potatoes - there are different strategies for how to dive off the blocks. Most people figure out that the outstretched hands should enter first and the feet should enter last. There are also the spazzes who gyrate in mid-air and end up with their hands and feet entering at the same time and their rear ends entering last, often accompanied by a huge noise. At any Masters meet, you are probably going to see a few bellyflops, perfectly flat entries that are perhaps the result of a foot slipping on the block. On rare occasions though, you get to watch a sack of potatoes dive into the water. It looks like someone threw a bag of potatoes off the starting block. These poor folks' feet hit the water first, and their hands and head enter the water last. They do not move in mid-air. And they do it the same way every time. Is it fear? I don't know. Whenever I see it, I feel amused and sad at the same time.
zone zero - ok, you've probably never heard this one. I invented it and have never actally used the term in conversation. It describes lap swimmers who swim with their heads out of the water, their hair dry, and no elevated pulse rate. They are not working on their Vo2max, their anaerobic threshold, or their aerobic threshold. They do not disturb the water. They are barely moving. It's kind of impressive in a weird way, exercising without ever entering Zone 1.
