bobsledders... i think thats all.
(i get nervous when you start going "all southern", i thought that was wooks dept)
I'm hardly in danger of being deemed a Southern Belle when I'm the apparent front runner for the Snotty Forum Poster award. Wohoo!
bobsledders... i think thats all.
(i get nervous when you start going "all southern", i thought that was wooks dept)
I forgot one: we're childish too if we take time off from competing.
So passionate pro techies like myself are, ipso facto, flip floppers who readily switch their positions to suit their personal/financial circumstances and passionate anti-techies are unalterably steadfast and unimpeachable in their defense of "plain" swimming?
Not that I ever claimed that purists are steadfast and selfless, but if you see it that way it must indeed be true! :angel:
No, about the worst I accused you of is twisting your reasoning to "suit" your conclusions. (To give you another for your list.)
Let's see, we're accused of being expedient flip floppers (a new one), fatties, cheaters, buying times, needing asterisks, slapping on suits to compensate for lack of training, refusing to lose weight when we can just don a cheatin' rubber suit instead, wanting an unfair edge, exploiting our ability to afford suits, being overly competitive, ruining the sport ... all while wearing a perfectly legal suit worn by many competitors. Anything I missed?
This belongs on the "Why I hate people who love the bomb...I mean suits..." thread.
It's not such a bad sport, it's just uninteresting to me in its current configuration. I've participated in a lot of sports, and in almost all of them having the right gear would provide an edge. I was okay with that.
How is this sport "uninteresting" There are always challenges that one can find to make it interesting.
Looking for ways to improve starts, turns, race splits, technical issues. There is always something interesting to find in this sport, if one takes the time to look for it.
Putting on a suit isn't interesting. Finding all the small hidden gems that will make a person faster is the interesting part.
if it takes a tech suit to make swimming "more interesting" for you, might i suggest you wear said tech suit more often... to the supermarket... church... starbucks... etc.
that would make things more interesting for the rest of us too.
Does the average John or Jane Q. Public even have an opinion on the suits?
And if they did, I would think it's a chicken and the egg situation.
They have an negative opinion because all the media attention has been about how the suits are ruining the sport, etc. etc.
What a great post. You are right!
Before tech suits, I had never seen an elite swimmer, get emotional, scream, cry, and get on top of the lane lines after a swim.
Thank goodness for tech suits. Golly, now with the ban we will never see such emotion.
Wook-a ding-dong, you're the best.
Your pal
Wow, how you got your assertation from what Wookiee wrote I would LOVE to know.
