I've had an interesting experience with this post that I want to share. I've got a passing interest in nutrition because, like most Americans, I'm at least a little overweight. But what's interesting is this - when I go to the google user group on nutrition, I don't what the heck they are talking about! They are at such a detailed level regarding every substance under the sun, and whether or not you should put into your body, that it would take me a couple months to even start to understand the culture. So it obviously ocurred to me that newbies who come onto this group to learn a little bit about swimming must be incredibly disapointed. "Straight arm catch", "drive the high hip down", "loping rhythm" ... they've wandered into an aquatic nightmare.
I've had an interesting experience with this post that I want to share. I've got a passing interest in nutrition because, like most Americans, I'm at least a little overweight. But what's interesting is this - when I go to the google user group on nutrition, I don't what the heck they are talking about! They are at such a detailed level regarding every substance under the sun, and whether or not you should put into your body, that it would take me a couple months to even start to understand the culture. So it obviously ocurred to me that newbies who come onto this group to learn a little bit about swimming must be incredibly disapointed. "Straight arm catch", "drive the high hip down", "loping rhythm" ... they've wandered into an aquatic nightmare.
Eric
I've made some really easy to understand pages for newbies.
First thing in the morning I check to see where a few of the one to two thousand hits I get daily come from because those will be in a different time zone. It's hard to believe that in Iraq and Israel and such places, where you have to worry about surviving a walk down the street, there are people who would just like to swim a little better. Not to be political, but should someone tell the powers that be that not everyone in the mid-east is looking for what we're sending over with our soldiers, but really would like to get a better understanding of loping rhythm and the straight arm catch, that the aquatic nightmare is to be preferred over the ones we're giving them now.
There are some VERY knowledgeable people there. And the only thing people are more passionate about than swimming technique is politics and the only thing that they are more passionate about than politics is food.
So when you are arguing the finer points of diet on sci.med.nutrition, you are REALLY swimming with the sharks.
