Micheal Artindale said:
"Martin Smith" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Micheal Artindale said:I had no fear of water. it did not take thew whole 4 months. it took 4
months to lear how to decently do crawl and breath on one side.
Now you are down from one year to less than fourth months. Do you see
my point here? You aren't telling the truth. You said it took you one
year to learn to swim crawlstroke. Now it is clear it took you a few
weeks, and then you started your effort to do it decently. We don't
know what decently means to you.
From when I started on the team to the following begining of the next season
is one year.
You said it took one year to learn crawl, but the team only trained
for four months of that year. That reduces the year by eight months.
Then you said it didn't take you the four months to leanr crawl, you
learned crawl quickly, and then you set about improving your technique
to get to where you could do crawl "decently," whatever that means.
Quoted message said:Decently means, be able to do it, and make it look as though you know what
you are doing.
You mean, so the youth won't laugh at you. Not relevant. It took you a
few weeks to learn crawl. Decently is a non-issue. you still can't do
crawl decently. 4 minutes per hundred is indecent for a 25 year old
guy. If you were Larry's father, 4 minutes per hundred would be
reasonable, but Larry's father, who is in his 90's if memory serves,
probably goes faster than 4 minutes.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> You said you had no psychological problem, but now you say you swam
with
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> your head up because you had no goggles, or, you couldn't learn to put
> your face in the water until you got goggles. That's a psychological
> problem. When I was 15, the age at which you say it took you four
months
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> to learn to put your face in the water, there were no goggles. Everyone
> swam without goggles. But you couldn't? That's a psychological problem.
> Or did you wear contacts and you couldn't see at all without them?
I have never worn glasses. My eyes would burn regardless of what water i
was
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:in. I had to get used to that not happening, which, if you want to
stretch
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:it, is psycological.
It isn't a stretch at all. It is a psychological problem. Unless you
have some unexplained medical problem, opening your eyes underwater
doesn't make them burn. Swimming without goggles for, say, 10 minutes
and more, will make your eyes burn or feel sandy, after you get out.
I guess I have some unknown medical problem. My eyes always have burned when
water got on them. Wether it was in a bat tub, shower, pool, lake, ocean...
doesnt matter. If I do not wear goggles, my eyes burn. If i were to swim in
a lake, after about a minute, I would have dificulty seeing.
I would see a doctor then. Personally, I think you are lying to
yourself, but as jtaylor has already established, I'm just an [censored].
Quoted message said:I am a medical wonder i guess.
You are "The Great Excuzo." You can find an excuse for anything. There
is no task The Great Excuzo can't find an excuse not to do.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Before the 60's, there were no goggles. Everyone swam without them.
They gradually caught on; they weren't very good at first.
Yes, and before the 60's, you had rabbit ears to pick up TV, now we have
Satilite dish.
And you alone, on this planet, can't put fresh water in your eyes.
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> Unless there is something you are not telling, your problems are
> weakness and lack of fitness. Now you say your immediate goal is to
swim
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:> a 200IM in a masters meet. You say you can't enter the 200IM now,
> because you can't do butterfly. If you could do butterfly, you could
> enter the race. How much butterfly are you doing each week?
Each day, at least 50m, if not more. It wears me out too quickly.
50 whole meters? Well, it's a start. But notice, it wears you out too
quickly. That is lack of fitness. The only way to eliminate lack of
fitness is to do more than 50 meters.
Some days, I do 100 or 150. I want to get to be able to do equal distance of
all 5 strokes, just one of my many swim related goals.
What was that fifth stroke again? Why not concentrate on just the
four?
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:Quoted message said:I may only do the 100IM. On April 8th there is a meet, I will go, if I
can
Quoted message said:Quoted message said:get the time off. It will depend on what I am like in March.
See, you are already talking yourself out achieving your goal. Your
most recent one.
Last summer I wanted to do 8km. I scaled it down to 4km. I did this so that
I could eventually achive my goal. This is no different. I may do 200IM this
year. If i cannot do 50 Fly decently, I wont make a fool out of myself.
You cut your 8k goal in half to avoid doing the work to achieve the 8k
goal. Now you are doing the same thing with the 200IM. You are cutting
200IM goal in half so you can avoid doing the work to achieve it. What
you wrote above implies you now believe you can't even achieve the
goal of swimming a 200IM. Where does that come from? What did your
parents do to you?
Quoted message said:I never did say that i wont do 200IM, I just may not do it yet.
Yes, you did. You implied you won't be able to do it, and you won't
do it.
