Kolek planning to go pro
I hate doing it, even though it has been my most competitive stroke.Seeing how far you can go without losing your form is a great measure of how in shape you are swimming-wise. A few years ago when I was actively training in Master's, I could go 200+ yards. Today, I could probably eke out a 25.If your wife still swims, she should consider competing in Masters. It doesn't take much to be nationally ranked in butterfly because no one wants to do it.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Don't want you drowning like Rodney King.
Butterfly evolved out of the breaststroke. The original rules of breaststroke said that the arms had to move in unison, as well as the legs. A guy in Australia invented the butterfly technique, which technically did not break the rules, but was way faster. They decided to make it a separate stroke.
Wtf?
I was a swim official for maybe a decade. In the IM, great butterflyers would always lose it in the breaststroke. Back, breast, fly, free. The outcome of the race would change change on the two middle strokes. It’s a different body build. Phelps was great at the butterfly and adequate on the breast. Lochte couldn’t ever beat Phelps because of his poor breaststroke (and a few other things).That said, swimming has the highest audience typically at the Olympics and is one of the top participation sports, if not the top.
The guy drowned in 5 feet of water.
That makes absolutely no sense. Unless Mr. King was unconscious, all he had to do was put his feet down on the bottom of the pool and walk out. At 5.0 feet, I serious doubt the water was above either Mr. King's mouth or nose.
Rodney King fell in a backyard pool while he was high. A woman who was there called 911 but did not attempt to rescue him because she didn't know how to swim. The guy drowned in 5 feet of water.
I get that. Just didn’t seem like something to joke about.
I don't get people who can't swim. ... I can't swim
You should learn just to jump off the N6 Bridge into the Corrib River. It's a long way down but a major rush! We finally did it my roommate's last night in Galway coming back from the pubs around midnight. Though the primary reason people don't learn to swim is lack of access to pools and lessons. I was fortunate that I grew up on a lake and thus my parents made it a priority for my siblings and me to learn via the YMCA. Unfortunately, in many neighborhoods, particularly in minority neighborhoods, that opportunity does not exist.
I was with someone today that reminded me of a galactically dumb thing I do not get:Lip enlargement. What is wrong with these women with big puffy clown lips? Of all aesthetic enhancements, that's the one that I bet most people think is just awful. In my 50 years, I've never heard any dude say "boy, if that girl over there just had puffier lips..."
Cuz these little twits watch too much Reality TV.
speakin of blown up stuff...who the hack loves an artificially or otherwise, overblown, obnoxiously wide caboose?
Agree with chickadee. Swimming is a skill every human being should have.
I agree. I learned to swim when I was about 7 or 8 and it's a crime if you live anywhere near water not to.I'm an old fart now but I can still swim well enough for my age.And Chick, I first learned at Cedars of Lebanon when I was a really dorky little kid.
speakin of blown up stuff...who the hack loves an artificially or otherwise, overblown, obnoxiously wide caboose? if they would just give it a little time, the thing will grow on it's own