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Re: Ok Fishes, here is the interview we were all waiting for!! [hiro11]
hiro11 wrote:
I started swimming competitively at age 8, I can assure you I don't need a watch in the pool. In fact, I'll bet I could recite the splits I dropped during a set after the set was completed. Going a step further, when I was racing I could probably tell you the 50/100 splits after a race based on feel and get within a couple of tenths. I'm not claiming to be a "better" or "more serious" swimmer than anyone else, it's just that these skills are hammered into you if you do a lot of swimming. The clock is God when you're a competitive swimmer, you develop a sixth sense for it.

Also, a watch would drive me absolutely nuts in the water. I can't stand any extraneous gear in the pool.


Again, I'm not insisting that everyone needs a swimming watch. My gripe is with the statement "if you XX then you're not a real XX". A secondary gripe is with the reasons listed above for not using a swimming watch during practice: poor accuracy, cumbersome buttons, not being able to see the numbers, hydrodynamics, etc.

As an aside, it's interesting that Jan is highly complementary of Lucy, while at the same time telling her indirectly that she's not a real swimmer. In what capacity she relies on her swim watch data, I don't know, but she's often seen swimming with one. I'd like to take the opportunity to suggest that Lucy is, in fact, a real swimmer in spite of swimming with a swimming watch.

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