Posted by alexandra_k on May 30, 2018, at 2:13:29
In reply to Runners?, posted by Lamdage22 on May 26, 2018, at 10:40:50
you inspired me to go swimming. i've been meaning to, for a while, but been putting it off. there's a gym as part of the pool, too, so i mostly went to check out that, but there are lane swimming pools and diving pools and so on.
and i thought i might get into swimming... but then i went back today, and all the lanes are full. people lane splitting. two, or more. and then it becomes about avoiding the people and you can't really train it properly.
tragedy of commons.
i watched the kids doing some diving. they let general swimmers use the boards, but don't seem to turn the bubbled on for the general swimmers. so, you need to join a club to have bubbles, it seems. and then you are stuck doing what someone says when someone says because they are the coach. the kids this afternoon seemed fairly hands off. mostly just messing around. but little elements. and i realised diving is highly systematised. like gymnastics. with particular skills and progressions on skills and different 'grade levels' on it and so on and so forth right up into the Olympics right on your whatev-ith birthday. Sort of a thing to be doing.
And of course swimming is largely the same way. They would have us believe...
They would have us believe...
But then you read about the history of such things and how techniques developed and evolved over time. And about arbitrary rules that constrict that thus and so (e.g., because it isn't as fun to see your swimmers with a seal-skin sort of a suit that means muslim women can compete, too, and because it isn't as fun to see swimmers of all the 'different' strokes do... uh... nearly all of the race under the water, since swimming is actually faster that way...
so... years and years and years of focused work, for sure.
but of course you aren't allowed to do that if someone decided they wll coach you. and so on..
and the whole public bathrooms thing...
anyway...
i have a decision to make. i get some goggles and learn to do most of it underwater - like everybody else - or i quit. i guess swimming and diving is something that people 'get' here, though. in this town, i mean.
and of course the real stuff gets done at 6 in the morning...
i could see about it...
and of course, there is a gym. not with a 15kg oly barbell, of course (that will have people presiding over it). but a 20kg bar i can grind away a bit on...
a lot of the basic fundamental sort of stuff is the same for most sports. and i do see the sense in which there is a high level of body control and so on in a lot of the 'individual' sports.
like diving and swimming and olympic lifting.
i don't know.
why must things always be so very overcrowded?
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