friend: *sees picture of favourite celebrity* oh, they're quite good-looking!
me: do you think so
me: do yoU EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE
me: DO YOU KNOW WHEN THEIR BIRTHDAY IS
me: DO YOU KNOW THEIR MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME
me: HAVE YOU EVER CRIED BECAUSE OF THEIR PERFECTION AND SCREAMED AT PICTURES OF THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE SO STUPIDLY BEAUTIFUL AND FUNNY AND WONDERFUL AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE BUT YOU DON'T CARE REALLY BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST PLEASED THEY'RE IN THE WORLD
friend: what
me: nothing i have a cough, yes they are good-looking aren't they
My coaches know. It would be hard to miss a swimmer who NEVER did dolphin kick, even during the actual swim meets. They know I slack off, but it didn’t take long to convince them this was actually a serious problem. I even got away with not doing any butterfly until I finally told myself I NEEDED to do it, because I do like fly, in the ‘I love you till you start to hurt’ kind of way. And my back hurts all the time. Its just that I now forsee that I am going to have to be pulled out of the water at every swim meet, because if I swim Fly seriously, even for a fifty, my back is going to rebel, like it did the last meet this year. :P
Thanks for the encouragement though:)
Swimming :P
So I’m about to start my senior year, and probably my last year of swimming. For the entire time (Six years) that I’ve been competitively swimming, I have been a freestyle sprinter (50’s and 100’s max). Along with this little fact, I am horrible at all other strokes, and during the very beginning of my sophomore year, I injured my back terribly, and it has yet to recover.
Given all of this, this past year, (Junior Year), my coach decided to pull another meet out of his pocket, just our individual city, and we could chose to swim whatever we wanted. I decided, and I still don’t know what possessed me, to swim the 200 IM. Thing is, I hadn’t swam fly, or done a dolphin kick for that matter, since my back injury two years prior, but I still remembered the Fly stroke.
After that swim, coach has decided I will now be my school’s Butterflier. And has changed my work outs to focus on the stroke, because I can’t do a dolphin kick anymore.
That being said, my question for those who care and understand the delema, who exactly in their right mind would change their stroke their senior year? I thought I had heard that was impossible…? My other coaches seemed adamant that it was impossible when I had asked to at least improve my other strokes…
and for Swimmer Probs, if I really go through with this change, what might I do so that I might swim the stroke in a way that it won’t hurt my back further? And swim it correctly? Lets pretend I am new to the stroke and be trained from step one, because that’s basically where I am.
