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re: If any of y'all have a child that swims competitively, we can all celebrate.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 11:56 am to tigafan4life
Posted on 2/26/24 at 11:56 am to tigafan4life
I was a breast stroker. My issues are knee related.
I'd have the Medley relay where I'd go all out on breast, then I'd sit forever and have to get in to rewarm up prior to 100 fly (using it to warm up) for my real race of 100 breast.
My breast time broke a minute. I NEVER got my free below a minute. That is ridiculous.
I'd have the Medley relay where I'd go all out on breast, then I'd sit forever and have to get in to rewarm up prior to 100 fly (using it to warm up) for my real race of 100 breast.
My breast time broke a minute. I NEVER got my free below a minute. That is ridiculous.
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Posted on 2/26/24 at 11:57 am to tigafan4life
Yeah! I hear that. Swimming was never a financial burden bc if it was I would have heard about it from my parents. Now music, however…my parents explained that’s why I got a hooptie, they always told me I could look at my Japanese handmade flute when I got upset with driving my “grandma” car.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 11:58 am to Ten Bears
better hire a flip turn coach as well. little timmy will never get that college scholarship without him
Posted on 2/26/24 at 11:58 am to Jobu93
quote:oh meeee tooooo. That was my race. I got my free below a min my last year I swam year round. I was burned out and my fave coach left the team. I just didn't want to do it anymore.
I was a breast stroker.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 11:59 am to tigerbandpiccolo
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500 or above is vomit territory.
My first day of practice of long course summer every year was 5000m free for time. Best time was 59 minutes.
We used to have bucket sets where goal was to make you puke in the bucket
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:00 pm to Ten Bears
I swam for the Tulane club team in the 70s. Coach Bowers would hit kids with kick boards who were playing around. He was a total jerk, but made me a great swimmer. Multiple state championships, college scholarship, and shot at the Olympics in 84. Hard sport on the body, but got a bunch of poon from the visiting teams
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:01 pm to tigafan4life
swimming is a massive mental mindfrick.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:01 pm to Jobu93
Wow. That’s impressive for breast stroke. I bet your knees are all bad. I forgot breast stroke’s impact on knees. I have a disorder that causes hyper flexion, subluxed joints. It both helped and hurt me in swimming bc my shoulders could click in and out of socket without much pain. But breaststroke always always hurt my inner knees and made them feel very compromised, for lack of better word.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:01 pm to DaBeerz
quote:shite like this would make me irrationally mad.
My first day of practice of long course summer every year was 5000m free for time
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:02 pm to tigafan4life
Because it’s bullshite.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:03 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
100% I would have told my coach, "you know I only do 200 meters and below?" WTF is doing 5000 gonna do for me? Other than make me super tired.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:06 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
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Wow. That’s impressive for breast stroke
thanks. I make no Phelpsian illusions
. It was quick back in the day, but there were always faster. I was content to be a regional finalist and never sniffed state in TX. My knees can hyperextend so it helped on my kicking but tore up cartilage pretty quick du to the bones pinching and grinding.
And FRICK a 5000M race. and DOUBLE FRICK doing that for time in a practice. That's a way to get people uninterested in swimming.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:07 pm to tigafan4life
I will say… when in peak swimming condition, I bet I could run 30 miles without checking up. Being elite in swimming (I didn’t consider myself elite) makes any other sport easy AF.
Our cross country AND football coach made their teams train in the pool with us before regular season. Those big boys liked to have died.
Our cross country AND football coach made their teams train in the pool with us before regular season. Those big boys liked to have died.
This post was edited on 2/26/24 at 12:08 pm
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:11 pm to tigafan4life
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shite like this would make me irrationally mad.
I was distance swimmer, so it came with territory. I Went to national championship open water 5k in Atlantic Ocean, got 9th when I was 16. I have swimming stories for days but it’s not very cool to talk about so they just stay in my memory
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:13 pm to DaBeerz
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I was distance swimmer, so it came with territory. I Went to national championship open water 5k in Atlantic Ocean, got 9th when I was 16. I have swimming stories for days but it’s not very cool to talk about so they just stay in my memory
Man, that's just incredible.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:13 pm to DaBeerz
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open water
You are a bad arse. Open Water is another level of swimming.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:13 pm to DaBeerz
Curious to know if you took up triathlons and such? Kind of a natural transition for high level swimmers bc you can dominate in the water and slightly suck on the other two parts and still have a great time.
And… do you find that unless you do a high intensity workout where you stay anaerobic range that you don’t feel like you’ve done anything?
Because that was hard for me to overcome. Had to relearn how to train for function and be ok without the extreme dopamine/seratonin that comes with that sport.
And… do you find that unless you do a high intensity workout where you stay anaerobic range that you don’t feel like you’ve done anything?
Because that was hard for me to overcome. Had to relearn how to train for function and be ok without the extreme dopamine/seratonin that comes with that sport.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:25 pm to Ten Bears
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Sounds expensive
Not nearly as expensive as it sounds. No where close to baseball, soccer, football, or other travel sports.
My son’s club swim is half the price of my daughter’s competition dance.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:27 pm to Jobu93
In the 70's, the best looking girl at Greenville H.S. (Texas) was on the swim team. I had a shite job at Church's Chicken (and I did not go to Greenville HS) in Greenville and this girl would come in. We were smitten (and she was way out of our league). She was very cool.
She ended up going to New Orleans and marrying some "tough customer." Her appearance at Church's was a rare treat to a bunch of h.s. nerds.
She ended up going to New Orleans and marrying some "tough customer." Her appearance at Church's was a rare treat to a bunch of h.s. nerds.
Posted on 2/26/24 at 12:32 pm to tigerbandpiccolo
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Curious to know if you took up triathlons and such?
My shoulders blew up. Ended my career with surgeries. Haven’t swam since. Have had ankle and knee surgery since then as well. So I get very little enjoyment from exercising because I can’t do much of anything like I used to… can’t swim, can’t run. Going to start doing long range hiking soon as next goal, that is fun and challenging.
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