There’s that moment 2 hours after your swim when you hear a little pop and feel the warm trickle of water leave your ear. This is the moment all swimmers know!!!
and last but not least: Imagine heading off to your local swimming pool, full of motivation ... but as soon as you're there it turns out to be a nightmare: So much people, children, pensioners.. swimming all across the lanes! No chance to keep up your plans..
Philey why? Choose a fast lane and start your warmup, then some speed intervals. You can put on your fins and do some power/speed training also. And it’s Ok to have occasional contact. Usually it gets better on a lane.
especially in Germany and Austria afaik it's common to not have any lanes set up, meaning that people are all over the place just talking etc. and wasting space. The best thing is that, then they would also complain if someone splashes them when exercising. I really hate swim training without a reserved lane (swim clubs) because of that.
@mik3ydll. Thanks I needed a laugh. I train in a pool in Thailand and they don’t have lanes either. People and groups will stand right where you are swimming and kids and teens do it as a game and jump away at last second always causing problems......but at least they don’t complain when I hit, splash or yell at them they just laugh and go away.
Very rarely get in our public pool due to the swim club having it every day for a 3-4 hrs. When we do have lanes it full of breaststrokers double up so they can talk to each other...
The clothing thing is so real! I once told a female friend of my swim squad, in a party, with no other swimming pals, how good she looked with clothes on. Just imagine everyone's faces LOL!
1) Accidentally hitting the lane line with your foot while you're swimming breaststroke. 2) Literally destroying your hand and your mate's one cause you were both swimming butterfly but were too close to each other.
@@bloblyface Yeah, it hurts like hell. But that happens when you try to pull on the lane line and since you shouldn't do that I guess it's kinda fair, you deserved it😂😂
flitzerchen 1720 I hate when people say “just have someone swim for you, it can’t be that hard. My sport “blank” is harder but we can have people come in for us
I've got another; that moment you get to the pool, ready to go and as soon as you open your bag; you realize your swimsuit is still hanging up from the night before to dry out at home.
My son had the opposite problem he forgot to take his shorts, he put on his swimming trunk from home so when he finished swimming he wore a towel from the pool to the car. Mind you he was only a 10 year old boy.
When the lifeguard watches the fast swimming lane fill up with people walking. Sharing a lane with 'The Splasher'. When the pool is full but the pro insists on soloing his lane by doing endless butterfly. Being hoofed by the guy doing breastroke in the next lane. Accidentally hoofing someone yourself,missing the moment to say sorry and then the awkward feeling everytime you rest at the same end. Parents who watch with ambivalence as their child traverses laterally across the pool. Aaaaaaaand... not swimming. Oh, that felt good to get off my chest, thank you!
I've seen 'The Splasher' today... The way he was doing freestyle was wonderful and scary. The splashes almost reached 2 lanes across. Somehow he still had a nice pace.
We go the slasher, I've had to share a lane with him twice. We got old lady hen walkers who peco at my 12 year old who sometimes goes to their area cuz hes learning to swim. One in particular tries to ruin his day everytime. Hes graduated to lanes tho
Also, if you live in colder climate, getting very itchy skin from chlorine during winter. Another one, if you aren't swimming with a club, going to the fast lane and seeing a bunch of out-of-shape middle-aged men (mostly) who wont switch lanes even when it's obvious they are not fast enough.
Ok, I admit it. I am one of those middle-aged men in the fast lane. Yeah, I've got a bit of a belly but I am almost fifty. You gotta accept these things 🤣 Anyway, I'm fast enough to hold my own in the fast lane with the rest of the regular early morning (middle-aged) swimmers. But if a twenty-something dives in with zero body fat, a 25m split under 5secs and a flawless flip at both ends, I know when I'm beat. I'm outta there! 😎
had a guy walk up to me in costa (other coffee shops are available )saying hi ian how are you then having to say where he new me from at which point I said a bit to load hi m8 I didn't recognize you with your cloths on at that moment the café went quiet and everyone turned to look at us both making there own minds up about what we were talking about
ian povey I was talking to my friend one time as we were walking to class and one of us said it’s weird seeing all these guys without their clothes on and then the other person said yah it’s harder to recognize them and everyone around us either turned to look at us with confused faces or stopped entirely and had to process that for a few seconds.
Could be worse. I teach swim lessons and a kid came up to me on a busy shopping street saying I look different with my clothes on. God the dirty stares... I thought someone was going to call the cops on me.
No need for foggy googles! 1 part "no tear" baby shampoo and 4 parts water. Mix and put in a spray bottle. Spray your googles before you swim and you will have clear googles the whole time. Make sure to rinse googles with clean tap water after swimming to prevent a buildup of chlorine and other pool chemicals.
I use any shower gel, put one or two drops and rub inside of goggles. After a small foam creates I rinse with a cold (cold very important) water and you can have 2-3 swim sessions fog free. In emergency during swimming spitting your saliva works amazing as a substitute for forgotten shower gel treatment.
I have tyr goggles and even when they were super tight, they would slip down my face when startling. Didn’t matter how or where I positioned my head, unless I was facing up enough to see in front of me, then in turn causing me to belly flop.
Worst thing ever! There was a time we had to practice without goggles at least 1 time a week so that won't throw us off. (Got rather expensive goggles now, they never slipped. Ofc I only wear them in events)
How about getting water in your sinuses (from flip turns etc) and then, hours later bending over and having a stream of water come out of your nose unexpectedly! or Going to your pool to find it is unavailable due to a group of aqua aerobics! or Forgetting your towel so you use your shirt to dry off after your swim or Not having a private area to change, so you develop a way to completely remove your underwear and put on your suit while wearing a towel as cover! or The awful sense of dread while standing on the edge of a cold pool just before you get in!
I had a deviated septum (hit one too many times in the face with a water polo ball I think) along with dodgy sinuses. so the water would just get stuck up there. Had an operation on my nose and now it's like Niagara falls out my nose when I get out the pool. 🤣
I once met a business partner after my swim while taking a shower. We had some things to discuss - so we discussed them. She in her bathing costume, I was naked...
You mentioned flip turns in a foreign pool leaving you short of the wall. Even WORSE is when you're switching pools and you flip too close and hit heels on the deck, AT SPEED. I do this once a year at least when we move from the outdoor to the darker indoor pool and I forgot my clear goggles.
Prior to swim workout: "I've got this healthy diet thing waxed"; Post swim workout: inhales burger,fries,shake ++++++ in a single breath and let's not even rehash the failed tumble turn stunned porpoise glide!
Haha I quit swim years ago, but I still did dive! I only relate to dryland/land training. Swimmers just jump in the pool and start warmup laps, but for divers it’s a whole regimen of running, a quick an workout, and plenty of stretching. Gotta love that deep pike
1. smacking your foot on the lane divider and having to check to see if you're actually bleeding or if you're just a wimp 2. having a splasher in the next lane over, whose apparent life goal is to punish the water as much as possible with excessive slapping and kicking 3. having that warm trickle of water leave your ear an hour after having gotten out of the pool 4. knowing that there's no better exercise in the world than swimming.
I remember at my first swim meet when I dove into the pool, my goggles slid down my face but I didn’t have time to place them back on my eyes, so I just tried my best to win. I kept leaning towards one side but I mean I WON IN THE END!
Me- Wait or is this the 3rd hundred? Wait wait I think I'll just finish when everybody else finishes. Wait why are they stopping are we done? They're drinking water? Wait so I'm the only one- so they're counting on me? Wait is this the 4th hundred or the 5th hundred now? Should I just ask Coach to use the bathroom? Nah I wouldn't do that. So... I think I'm almost done? Maybe? I think I'm done. Ok imma stop now. *Stops* Coach- WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STOPPING YOU STILL HAVE A 400!!!!! Me- Crap Me- *Starts again* Ah whatever welp I'm in trouble now. Damn I still have so much homework after this. Aousaldkghldsf I'm going to need to stay up so late. Wait how much more do I need to do?
I was asked to meet someone who had moved to my city a couple of months previously. We met at a cafe and got on well. At my next lifesaving class, my regular partner for the previous few weeks reminded me of the girl I'd met up with. Turned out we'd been partners in the class and neither of us recognised the other when we met up!
These are soo relatable I am a national gold medalist at the age of 11 right now but the struggle is sooo hard especially keeping the balance between 6 hours of school and 6 hours of training!!
as a swimmer i can confirm that the best feeling is when after hours of having water stuck in your ears during meets, i love the satisfaction of jumping up and down a few times and all the warm water gush out of my ear😅
*when your coach says your going to leave on the top (clock) but you don’t know which top* *when you ‘high-five’ someone in your squad* *when your arm or leg scrapes the lane rope* *when you do a horrible dive* *when someone overtakes you in warm up or warm down*
Oh the flip turn, in addition to being nearsighted I am also cross-eyed so therefore have poor depth perception... I'm pretty good now about not running my head into the wall anymore 🤗. But on occasion I will flip to early thinking I'm in the right spot and there is nothing to push off... Yeah so those of us who can't see that well even with prescription goggles still have fun in the pool.
I only started swimming in 2018 and never learned the math part; Garmin does all the calculating. Swimming must've been difficult back in the non-smart watch dark ages! :) Though once I jumped to a 50 m pool but forgot to change the pool length settings in advance. For the first 300 metres or so I was completely lost why my watch has just gone haywire!
for the goggle marks we cal those ' raccoon eyes ' also I always forget to dry my cap so when I get it the next day it is dried and stuck in an impossible possisition
Hamzah Alsheikh when you’re flying and coming up for that breath that you god damned need and you find a lung full of water is the worst experience in the history of humanity.
In college, I’d teach swim lessons in the morning, go to classes and come back to the pool to lifeguard in the evening. Until I saved up got a second suit, I hated putting on and wearing the cold, wet suit for 4+ hours
As a national swimmer, i can confirm that ALL of these examples are 100% accurate, but also as a swimmer you will experience the following: -Warm-up sprinters(hate them) -Cold Pools -Getting out of bed at 5am is MORE challenging then the actual 2 hrs swim itself😂 -When a cap rips during a gala, that is the most annoying thing EVER -Swimmers who try to race you in trainning and get excited over beating you even if you didnt try -Swimmers who pull your feet to get in front off you -Swimmers who take a "toilet break" during a hard set -Swimmers who say that "this set wasn't hard at all" -People who "fix" their goggles in the middle of a set -EXTREME HUNGER! Like after swimming, swimmers can eat more than probably any animal that i know, that's how drainning this sport is This is just a FEW named examples of swimming from my own personal experience, but the WORST things and probably the funniest things to happen are that when you hit your hand on the lane rope it KILLS and feels like you hit barbed wire instead and hitting arms with your mate when swimming butterfly, also there are people who swim a 1500m WITHOUT goggles and people who swim down the middle of the lane and swim into you
When you swim in the context of triathlon practice, it's also worse. The worst thing for me is eating, as after training in swimming I may go biking or running or both and it's not that you can eat large amounts of food after swimming if you are going to bike and/or run . I manage to use gels as I can assimilate them quite easily, but it's a bit of a pain nonetheless.
Lol, the cap one is so true. But using silicone caps and not latex ones helps. Also I cannot stand the pulling, so the only way I wear caps is by reversing the cap, filling it with water, then dropping it on my head. I've done it so many times that its faster than the normal way, and it doesnt pull on my hair.
A variation on the tumble turn mishap... I was once in a 100yd race in a pool that had a trough at the end. My feet seamlessly slipped into the trough and locked into it, stopping me instantly. Of course, everyone else carried on, leaving me floundering...
1)I lost my goggles during a 200 so I missed the wall then had a mental break down which ended with my swim coach just telling me to tighten my goggle 2)the eye things I have burst blood vessels in my eyes from goggles 3)the food situation sucks 4)my friend didn't know what color my hair was for 3 year due to swim 5) dry lands training sucks especially when done on the pool deck
I still remember the look of utter confusion The first time I referred to ‘dry land’ training to a non swimmer. I’d never realised what an odd term it is to someone who doesn’t associate ‘training’ with being in water.
sneezing like crazy a few hours after training. Somehow, i don't feel the water getting into my nose during flip turns WHILE i'm swimming, but my nose gets irritiatet nonetheless and a few hours later, the sneezefest starts.
butterly in lane 1 or 8 and smacking your arm on the wall or the bars on the ladder. Hate that. Great list btw. Stopped competing in 93 and nothing has changed.
So funny, made me laugh! Maybe you left out all the little guerrilla wars in a too crowded pool. All those flip turns against all odds, risky overtaking maneuvers oder head against head crashes of backstroke swimmer in the middle of the pool ...
I’m 11 and I’ve experienced all of them though sadly it’s been so long since I’ve swam cause I live in shanghai and there was recently a long lockdown so :(
Once right before my race my goggles snapped so I had to swim that race without goggles. Luckily it was a 25 breast. But all my other teammates in special Olympics were like “ why did you swim without goggles”. I said “ I’m not dropping out of a race due to a goggles issue. Yes my eyes are burning right now. But I came in 1st and that’s because I didn’t give up”
once after land training I came out of te gym, and these guys talked with me. They eventually asked what land training was, but I thought they were joking. Isn't it in the word? I always think ppl are joking when they ask what landtraining is...
I used to have terrible painful swimmer‘s ear. Theear nose specialist was unsympathetic and advised me to give up swimming! I invested in silicone ear plugs. I use them under a swim cap. Diligently. No probs.
Land Training! Haha! Worst nightmare now is training during a public session in a lane marked 'Fast Lane' and you really are the only person in there who is. Invariably sorted by a Butterly set or two, but 'fast' should be for the fast! There is the rest of the pool where the less speedy can plow up and down. - by fast, I do realise that there aren't many truly fast punters out there. I know pacing isn't my strong point though as I started my first ever tri with a 16m 28-sec 25m pool 1500m! 35 years on and I'm not so speedy!
I love the back stroke, but not when I hit my head at the end of the lane, anyone got any suggestions lol, and I thought I was the only one that gets water in their sinus after a flip turn lol thought I was doing it wrong
I wish I was good enough to have these mishaps:(. I am brand new, still working on technique and stamina. Then again I associate swimming with a few good things. I got myself all sorts of cute bathings suits and rash guards. Gotta look good no matter how much I struggle in the water. I never have to take a shower at home. I just use the open shower head by the pool with soap and shampoo after pool time (no one uses our community pool). I haven’t reached the hungry wolf phase. My eating is actually curbed well since 3 months ago when I first started.
I swim in lake , but it hurts me during picnic season because there are lot of families out there, its very shy to swim in front of them, and at same time people put the disposable plates and wine bottles into the lake.
I have a solution for the foggy goggles, Basically if you press them closer to your eyes whenever you blink it works as windscreen wipers and clears then it’s a bit uncomfortable but it works 😁
Swimming teacher here. Often walk round local supermarket and see swimmers and their families. Say hi and they look at me like I am an alien, then it's always the 'oh you look different with your clothes on' comment.
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Stop breathing so much.
Global Triathlon Network your parents cheering for the wrong person. My parents once said “I love you” and “good job” to my best friend 😂😂
has anyone said how your tears of pain smell and taste like chlorine, as if the pain wasn't a reminder harsh enough? lol
You just made a huge mistake in this video. The easiest way to keep your swimming cap from slipping off is to first put on your cap, then gogglrs.
There’s that moment 2 hours after your swim when you hear a little pop and feel the warm trickle of water leave your ear. This is the moment all swimmers know!!!
Teri Laliberte it’s a great feeling ngl
o. m. g.
that feels great
YES! it feels so weird but so nice
It feels great,
It doesn't matter how many years I swim... The first dive/entry in the pool still so COLD! :D
Renan this is the main problem for me aswell
wut? is that problem? i though that was normal.
Renan similar to getting out of bed in the morning..always a challenge
When u go from a dive off the block hitting that well water. U freeze in place. And it is hard for me to go fast.
So true.
and last but not least: Imagine heading off to your local swimming pool, full of motivation ... but as soon as you're there it turns out to be a nightmare: So much people, children, pensioners.. swimming all across the lanes! No chance to keep up your plans..
Philey why? Choose a fast lane and start your warmup, then some speed intervals. You can put on your fins and do some power/speed training also. And it’s Ok to have occasional contact. Usually it gets better on a lane.
especially in Germany and Austria afaik it's common to not have any lanes set up, meaning that people are all over the place just talking etc. and wasting space. The best thing is that, then they would also complain if someone splashes them when exercising. I really hate swim training without a reserved lane (swim clubs) because of that.
Club swimmers rent the pool 🏊♂️🏊♀️
@mik3ydll. Thanks I needed a laugh. I train in a pool in Thailand and they don’t have lanes either. People and groups will stand right where you are swimming and kids and teens do it as a game and jump away at last second always causing problems......but at least they don’t complain when I hit, splash or yell at them they just laugh and go away.
Very rarely get in our public pool due to the swim club having it every day for a 3-4 hrs. When we do have lanes it full of breaststrokers double up so they can talk to each other...
The clothing thing is so real! I once told a female friend of my swim squad, in a party, with no other swimming pals, how good she looked with clothes on. Just imagine everyone's faces LOL!
vicmariodeth hahahahahaha that happens a lot
@@sabinehazboun5290 True story!
Getting to the pool, only to look in your bag and see that you've forgot to put get your suit; which is still hanging at home drying.
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
i once had to buy a new suit so i wouldnt miss training, now i keep a spare one in my bag😭
It happens me two times during my life and it was so sad 😭
Jeez, didn’t t have to attack me like that.
In my defence...I had a wet suit also, so I barely needed the swim suit... Hrmmhrmm
When you think you lost your goggles but they’re on your head
Wish we could say we've never done this 😅
have you ever dived in a pool with your goggles still on your head? no? me either 😅
dove*
@@dominiquecoleman4948 well I don’t wear goggles but my school force us to and some times I forgot to put them on
Yeah it is so annoying
1) Accidentally hitting the lane line with your foot while you're swimming breaststroke.
2) Literally destroying your hand and your mate's one cause you were both swimming butterfly but were too close to each other.
@@bloblyface Yeah, it hurts like hell. But that happens when you try to pull on the lane line and since you shouldn't do that I guess it's kinda fair, you deserved it😂😂
YES
Giusto,non dimentichiamoci dell’odore di cloro
Happened to me many times
YES
Swimming is the only sport where you get told off for breathing ;)
🤣 yep... no breathing inside the flags
Yep
Lol
flitzerchen 1720 I hate when people say “just have someone swim for you, it can’t be that hard. My sport “blank” is harder but we can have people come in for us
@@savanamills6750 🤣🤣
Smelling from chlorine all day long
Waking up 5:00
Miscounting
In high school and university my sweat smelled like chlorine.
@@realalbertan exactly! 😁
Real swimmer alert - agreed
Krisztián Kovács yep smelling like chlorine all day
@@hardushelm6268 and the best when you start itching from chlorine in afternoon! :D
I've got another; that moment you get to the pool, ready to go and as soon as you open your bag; you realize your swimsuit is still hanging up from the night before to dry out at home.
We've definitely been there 🤦♂️
My son had the opposite problem he forgot to take his shorts, he put on his swimming trunk from home so when he finished swimming he wore a towel from the pool to the car. Mind you he was only a 10 year old boy.
they had me after 2 seconds. "swimming is a very challenging sport". at least someone recognises that!!!
When the lifeguard watches the fast swimming lane fill up with people walking.
Sharing a lane with 'The Splasher'.
When the pool is full but the pro insists on soloing his lane by doing endless butterfly.
Being hoofed by the guy doing breastroke in the next lane.
Accidentally hoofing someone yourself,missing the moment to say sorry and then the awkward feeling everytime you rest at the same end.
Parents who watch with ambivalence as their child traverses laterally across the pool.
Aaaaaaaand... not swimming.
Oh, that felt good to get off my chest, thank you!
I've seen 'The Splasher' today... The way he was doing freestyle was wonderful and scary. The splashes almost reached 2 lanes across. Somehow he still had a nice pace.
We go the slasher, I've had to share a lane with him twice. We got old lady hen walkers who peco at my 12 year old who sometimes goes to their area cuz hes learning to swim. One in particular tries to ruin his day everytime. Hes graduated to lanes tho
Also, if you live in colder climate, getting very itchy skin from chlorine during winter. Another one, if you aren't swimming with a club, going to the fast lane and seeing a bunch of out-of-shape middle-aged men (mostly) who wont switch lanes even when it's obvious they are not fast enough.
Elisabeth R I FELT that itchy skin, its even worse when i have school after and need to live with it no matter how much cream i use :(
At my local gym the old men use the lanes and I have to literally do dolphin dives to avoid them
Ok, I admit it. I am one of those middle-aged men in the fast lane. Yeah, I've got a bit of a belly but I am almost fifty. You gotta accept these things 🤣 Anyway, I'm fast enough to hold my own in the fast lane with the rest of the regular early morning (middle-aged) swimmers. But if a twenty-something dives in with zero body fat, a 25m split under 5secs and a flawless flip at both ends, I know when I'm beat. I'm outta there! 😎
There is nothing more uncomfortable than putting on a cold damp speedo...
especial in practice when you go to the restrooms
Or putting on a wet cap you used 30 mins ago
S H U D D E R S
as a main backstroker, I memorize ceilings...
yea
I know
I'm weird
Yes definitely
Same but backstroke is my worst
I can feel you man
All those ceiling memories rushing through my mind
I have a favorite ceiling
Same at the place i train at i memorize the ceiling for some reason
had a guy walk up to me in costa (other coffee shops are available )saying hi ian how are you then having to say where he new me from at which point I said a bit to load hi m8 I didn't recognize you with your cloths on at that moment the café went quiet and everyone turned to look at us both making there own minds up about what we were talking about
That's hilarious
ian povey I was talking to my friend one time as we were walking to class and one of us said it’s weird seeing all these guys without their clothes on and then the other person said yah it’s harder to recognize them and everyone around us either turned to look at us with confused faces or stopped entirely and had to process that for a few seconds.
I recognise them by their swimsuits. Have to look twice when they are in their school uniforms.
Could be worse. I teach swim lessons and a kid came up to me on a busy shopping street saying I look different with my clothes on. God the dirty stares... I thought someone was going to call the cops on me.
lol in america we call "land training" just "Dryland" example:
"Hey when is dryland today?"
"Oh before practice"
Alan Jackman “we”
Same
My team too. I got my friends to start saying when we swim we are doing wet water
I think it's called dryland literally everywhere apart from where GTN train
Yeah
No need for foggy googles! 1 part "no tear" baby shampoo and 4 parts water. Mix and put in a spray bottle. Spray your googles before you swim and you will have clear googles the whole time. Make sure to rinse googles with clean tap water after swimming to prevent a buildup of chlorine and other pool chemicals.
Marilyn Strube Jesus is that you
Thank you..you’re a literal life saver
I use any shower gel, put one or two drops and rub inside of goggles. After a small foam creates I rinse with a cold (cold very important) water and you can have 2-3 swim sessions fog free.
In emergency during swimming spitting your saliva works amazing as a substitute for forgotten shower gel treatment.
Good tip! Thanks!
Can I quadruple like this comment? 🙌👏👏👏🙌🎉🎊😭
When your goggles come off during your event in a meet. 😭
Avery Carole that happened to me three times at a school meet 🙄
Let’s just say Zoggs is the worst brand ever 😅😑
1500m in a 25m pool, the goggles got dislodge and started to fill up the first 25... not fast, but every 25 m just a little more...
I have tyr goggles and even when they were super tight, they would slip down my face when startling. Didn’t matter how or where I positioned my head, unless I was facing up enough to see in front of me, then in turn causing me to belly flop.
Worst thing ever! There was a time we had to practice without goggles at least 1 time a week so that won't throw us off. (Got rather expensive goggles now, they never slipped. Ofc I only wear them in events)
@@LS-en9gs What googles are they?
How about getting water in your sinuses (from flip turns etc) and then, hours later bending over and having a stream of water come out of your nose unexpectedly!
or
Going to your pool to find it is unavailable due to a group of aqua aerobics!
or
Forgetting your towel so you use your shirt to dry off after your swim
or
Not having a private area to change, so you develop a way to completely remove your underwear and put on your suit while wearing a towel as cover!
or
The awful sense of dread while standing on the edge of a cold pool just before you get in!
Tell me about it
I had a deviated septum (hit one too many times in the face with a water polo ball I think) along with dodgy sinuses. so the water would just get stuck up there. Had an operation on my nose and now it's like Niagara falls out my nose when I get out the pool. 🤣
I once met a business partner after my swim while taking a shower. We had some things to discuss - so we discussed them. She in her bathing costume, I was naked...
P. Marley 😳
Rip
You mentioned flip turns in a foreign pool leaving you short of the wall. Even WORSE is when you're switching pools and you flip too close and hit heels on the deck, AT SPEED. I do this once a year at least when we move from the outdoor to the darker indoor pool and I forgot my clear goggles.
I got my whole lower leg up there once. Hitting the wall with my butt. Yea it hurt
Have anyone discovered in the change room that forgot the swimming trunks at home?
I am in fear of that, so I keep a extra pair in the kit all the time. Just in case. :)
I have forgotten dry clothes and have to come back home on my wet swimsuit to get new clothes. :(
Lmao and that's when you're either forced to wear a suit from the lost and found, drive back to get it, or just do extra dryland
@Rejected Letters yes
Great video!! I can relate! LOL . sometimes I think it's just ME having that problem!! Flip turn mishap happened to me today, it was so embarrassing!
Prior to swim workout: "I've got this healthy diet thing waxed";
Post swim workout: inhales burger,fries,shake ++++++ in a single breath
and let's not even rehash the failed tumble turn stunned porpoise glide!
Haha I quit swim years ago, but I still did dive! I only relate to dryland/land training. Swimmers just jump in the pool and start warmup laps, but for divers it’s a whole regimen of running, a quick an workout, and plenty of stretching. Gotta love that deep pike
I enjoyed this video. I've only recently resumed swimming. I had forgotten how much I love it!
1. smacking your foot on the lane divider and having to check to see if you're actually bleeding or if you're just a wimp
2. having a splasher in the next lane over, whose apparent life goal is to punish the water as much as possible with excessive slapping and kicking
3. having that warm trickle of water leave your ear an hour after having gotten out of the pool
4. knowing that there's no better exercise in the world than swimming.
1:10: "No wander archimedes made his dicovery in the bath"!
SHOWS PYTHAGORAS THEOREM
As a new swimmer (one month) I have experienced almost all these things.
Listing them, and the comments, really make me feel part of a tribe.
is it just me or does anyone else get so much water in their ear to the point they literally cannot hear clearly anymore and it’s all just muffled
Facts
Yup
Big ass ear canal gang
I wear wax ear plugs
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I remember at my first swim meet when I dove into the pool, my goggles slid down my face but I didn’t have time to place them back on my eyes, so I just tried my best to win. I kept leaning towards one side but I mean I WON IN THE END!
The worst feeling is being nervous for a race, getting on the block, diving, and both your googles leak
Am I a swimmer: no
Did I watch the whole thing: yes
Sophia same but I hate it when there are other people in the lanes that don’t even know how to swim and just stand or walk🙄🤦♀️
Me when tring swiming 1500M is this 200M or its still 100M hmm i forgot because to focus on breating 😂😂😂
How true. LOL. Happens to me all too often.
Me- Wait or is this the 3rd hundred? Wait wait I think I'll just finish when everybody else finishes. Wait why are they stopping are we done? They're drinking water? Wait so I'm the only one- so they're counting on me? Wait is this the 4th hundred or the 5th hundred now? Should I just ask Coach to use the bathroom? Nah I wouldn't do that. So... I think I'm almost done? Maybe? I think I'm done. Ok imma stop now. *Stops*
Coach- WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU STOPPING YOU STILL HAVE A 400!!!!!
Me- Crap
Me- *Starts again* Ah whatever welp I'm in trouble now. Damn I still have so much homework after this. Aousaldkghldsf I'm going to need to stay up so late. Wait how much more do I need to do?
And than there is forgetting to breath at all, and than after a lane realising and being completely out of breath
This was so funny and so real. Well done, thanks for the laugh and realty check.
I was asked to meet someone who had moved to my city a couple of months previously. We met at a cafe and got on well. At my next lifesaving class, my regular partner for the previous few weeks reminded me of the girl I'd met up with. Turned out we'd been partners in the class and neither of us recognised the other when we met up!
These are soo relatable I am a national gold medalist at the age of 11 right now but the struggle is sooo hard especially keeping the balance between 6 hours of school and 6 hours of training!!
6 hours? that's insane!
I’m gonna begin swimming tomorrow, so excited!!!!!
Did you stick with it?
as a swimmer i can confirm that the best feeling is when after hours of having water stuck in your ears during meets, i love the satisfaction of jumping up and down a few times and all the warm water gush out of my ear😅
*when your coach says your going to leave on the top (clock) but you don’t know which top*
*when you ‘high-five’ someone in your squad*
*when your arm or leg scrapes the lane rope*
*when you do a horrible dive*
*when someone overtakes you in warm up or warm down*
Oh the flip turn, in addition to being nearsighted I am also cross-eyed so therefore have poor depth perception... I'm pretty good now about not running my head into the wall anymore 🤗. But on occasion I will flip to early thinking I'm in the right spot and there is nothing to push off...
Yeah so those of us who can't see that well even with prescription goggles still have fun in the pool.
Totally agree! How about jumping into the cold water at the beginning. Once I am in , I am ok, but the thought kills me every time! 😝
I only started swimming in 2018 and never learned the math part; Garmin does all the calculating. Swimming must've been difficult back in the non-smart watch dark ages! :)
Though once I jumped to a 50 m pool but forgot to change the pool length settings in advance. For the first 300 metres or so I was completely lost why my watch has just gone haywire!
for the goggle marks we cal those ' raccoon eyes '
also I always forget to dry my cap so when I get it the next day it is dried and stuck in an impossible possisition
The water when it enter in the ear and when it enter inside the nose while swimming back and drinking the water in butterfly 😂
Hamzah Alsheikh when you’re flying and coming up for that breath that you god damned need and you find a lung full of water is the worst experience in the history of humanity.
...the imitation of a whale you do as you spurt the water right out and carry on swimming
SFM 4Life since fly is literally my worst stroke for technique but my number two by like 2 seconds I experience this so much it hurts
I am a very young swimmer. I've been swimming for two years, and I started when I was eight. But, I've experienced all of these things
In college, I’d teach swim lessons in the morning, go to classes and come back to the pool to lifeguard in the evening. Until I saved up got a second suit, I hated putting on and wearing the cold, wet suit for 4+ hours
just by looking at the pool. i can smell the clorine
the smell is actually because it is mixed with piss. pure clorine does not smell
@@lukas-ru8ru WHAT
I have been swimming since I was 3 and my dream is to get into the olympics. It has been only 6 years, and have experienced all of these
As a national swimmer, i can confirm that ALL of these examples are 100% accurate, but also as a swimmer you will experience the following:
-Warm-up sprinters(hate them)
-Cold Pools
-Getting out of bed at 5am is MORE challenging then the actual 2 hrs swim itself😂
-When a cap rips during a gala, that is the most annoying thing EVER
-Swimmers who try to race you in trainning and get excited over beating you even if you didnt try
-Swimmers who pull your feet to get in front off you
-Swimmers who take a "toilet break" during a hard set
-Swimmers who say that "this set wasn't hard at all"
-People who "fix" their goggles in the middle of a set
-EXTREME HUNGER! Like after swimming, swimmers can eat more than probably any animal that i know, that's how drainning this sport is
This is just a FEW named examples of swimming from my own personal experience, but the WORST things and probably the funniest things to happen are that when you hit your hand on the lane rope it KILLS and feels like you hit barbed wire instead and hitting arms with your mate when swimming butterfly, also there are people who swim a 1500m WITHOUT goggles and people who swim down the middle of the lane and swim into you
I hate the pulling on the feet. I’ve kicked a couple people in the face. Like just tap the foot and wait tell the wall. Or pass.
...not sure if counting, adding and multiplying makes me a mathematical genius....
Thanks for the video
Maths skills made all us swimmers/swammers look smart. Then along came Ryan Lochte.
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When you swim in the context of triathlon practice, it's also worse. The worst thing for me is eating, as after training in swimming I may go biking or running or both and it's not that you can eat large amounts of food after swimming if you are going to bike and/or run . I manage to use gels as I can assimilate them quite easily, but it's a bit of a pain nonetheless.
Lol, the cap one is so true. But using silicone caps and not latex ones helps. Also I cannot stand the pulling, so the only way I wear caps is by reversing the cap, filling it with water, then dropping it on my head. I've done it so many times that its faster than the normal way, and it doesnt pull on my hair.
A variation on the tumble turn mishap...
I was once in a 100yd race in a pool that had a trough at the end. My feet seamlessly slipped into the trough and locked into it, stopping me instantly. Of course, everyone else carried on, leaving me floundering...
As a slow swimmer, I unfortunately suffer pretty much from all these embarrassing problems.
Im fourteen and have been swimming for for ten years (2rec 7comp). And I'm so glad it's not just me.
I just started swim and I can relate to every single one of them!!!!!! OMG!
I can’t even count how many bruises I have on my hands from the lane rope and on my shins from crawling out the pool
Funny, but true stuff. Thanks for posting.
1)I lost my goggles during a 200 so I missed the wall then had a mental break down which ended with my swim coach just telling me to tighten my goggle
2)the eye things I have burst blood vessels in my eyes from goggles
3)the food situation sucks
4)my friend didn't know what color my hair was for 3 year due to swim
5) dry lands training sucks especially when done on the pool deck
I still remember the look of utter confusion The first time I referred to ‘dry land’ training to a non swimmer. I’d never realised what an odd term it is to someone who doesn’t associate ‘training’ with being in water.
The tumble turn still terrorizes me after more than 15 years of swimming 😀
sneezing like crazy a few hours after training. Somehow, i don't feel the water getting into my nose during flip turns WHILE i'm swimming, but my nose gets irritiatet nonetheless and a few hours later, the sneezefest starts.
My phobia: Kicking someone or being kicked during breathsroke
butterly in lane 1 or 8 and smacking your arm on the wall or the bars on the ladder. Hate that. Great list btw. Stopped competing in 93 and nothing has changed.
That moment your kit bag starts to smell... 💇♀️🍯
So funny, made me laugh! Maybe you left out all the little guerrilla wars in a too crowded pool. All those flip turns against all odds, risky overtaking maneuvers oder head against head crashes of backstroke swimmer in the middle of the pool ...
I swim 9 hours a week so this is very relatable
Morning workouts are a great hangover remedy.
This is awesome waited my whole life to hear other people say this is hilarious
Lol i started laughing so hard after he said a dolphin kick off the wall 😂😂😂 I mean who actually does that 😂
I love these videos!! Can you do swimming pet peeves next?
Omg the flip turns when you miss the wall is so relatable!
I’m 11 and I’ve experienced all of them though sadly it’s been so long since I’ve swam cause I live in shanghai and there was recently a long lockdown so :(
Can relate to all of these !!!! Hilarious 😂
I have all of the things you said and I’m a beginner swimmer
I used to think I was horrible at math! But you’re right I’m a.genius if i can do a 2 hour workout no problem!!
Once right before my race my goggles snapped so I had to swim that race without goggles. Luckily it was a 25 breast. But all my other teammates in special Olympics were like “ why did you swim without goggles”. I said “ I’m not dropping out of a race due to a goggles issue. Yes my eyes are burning right now. But I came in 1st and that’s because I didn’t give up”
There is that moment when you are doing backstroke, and you scrape your thumb on the lane line.
Great video - plenty of truth's in there!
I am 12 and I have been swimming for 5 years and I have experienced this a lot
Calloused fingers from pulling lane line on backstroke of course
Definitely experienced every single one of them
once after land training I came out of te gym, and these guys talked with me. They eventually asked what land training was, but I thought they were joking. Isn't it in the word? I always think ppl are joking when they ask what landtraining is...
Used to swim regularly until started getting swimmers' ear. Haven't swam for years 😢 but ears are good and enjoying other exercise.
I used to have terrible painful swimmer‘s ear. Theear nose specialist was unsympathetic and advised me to give up swimming! I invested in silicone ear plugs. I use them under a swim cap. Diligently. No probs.
@@julsbendandi9374 Like that idea thanks 🙂.
Steve Co Try it! It‘s a pain in the b... but a gamechanger! Just came from the pool!
Land Training! Haha! Worst nightmare now is training during a public session in a lane marked 'Fast Lane' and you really are the only person in there who is. Invariably sorted by a Butterly set or two, but 'fast' should be for the fast! There is the rest of the pool where the less speedy can plow up and down. - by fast, I do realise that there aren't many truly fast punters out there. I know pacing isn't my strong point though as I started my first ever tri with a 16m 28-sec 25m pool 1500m! 35 years on and I'm not so speedy!
Instead of ‘land training,’ we call it ‘dry land’ like ‘we got dry land after this’
I love the back stroke, but not when I hit my head at the end of the lane, anyone got any suggestions lol, and I thought I was the only one that gets water in their sinus after a flip turn lol thought I was doing it wrong
A steady exhale through your nose should help.
Can I have this weather please thank you
Loved this video, gave me a great laugh
Awesome! Thank you!
New swimmer here, and still learning... I found myself saying land training, which is interesting to say the least.🤷🏾😂
I wish I was good enough to have these mishaps:(. I am brand new, still working on technique and stamina. Then again I associate swimming with a few good things. I got myself all sorts of cute bathings suits and rash guards. Gotta look good no matter how much I struggle in the water. I never have to take a shower at home. I just use the open shower head by the pool with soap and shampoo after pool time (no one uses our community pool). I haven’t reached the hungry wolf phase. My eating is actually curbed well since 3 months ago when I first started.
Oh my gosh yes this is amazing
I swim in lake , but it hurts me during picnic season because there are lot of families out there, its very shy to swim in front of them, and at same time people put the disposable plates and wine bottles into the lake.
land training can also be for rowing
I have a solution for the foggy goggles,
Basically if you press them closer to your eyes whenever you blink it works as windscreen wipers and clears then it’s a bit uncomfortable but it works 😁
Swimming teacher here. Often walk round local supermarket and see swimmers and their families. Say hi and they look at me like I am an alien, then it's always the 'oh you look different with your clothes on' comment.