The Pub - Belph's Battle with Anorexia

[miaou]

I used to swim.

 

[KidAlchemy]

I float.

 

[Kiwi Tricker]

Sink like a hammer.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Sink like a hammer.

Glad I'm not the only one.:redface:

 

[Kiwi Tricker]

Glad I'm not the only one.:redface:

Welcome back KT

 

[KnightTemplar]

Welcome back KT

Thanks Kiwi!

 

[rikwebb]

I never miss an episode of Hannibal. Although it's a very different show, for sheer quality of writing and acting, it's the equal of Game of Thrones and True Detective.

True Detective is lined up ready after Hannibal.

What channel is Hannibal shown on over here?






I can swim but its one of those things i'd like to do more of but never get round to it.

 

[xPINKx]

I used to swim.

Do you think learning proper front crawl-form is worth the hassle if you only plan on swimming for LSD-conditioning and in order not to "sink like a hammer"?
My breast stroke is okay, so I could work with that. My crawl is awful, though.

 

[xPINKx]

Did you guys swim in school, during PE?

 

[Ethan]

Our pad is an Android but all the laptops are windows. I'll see around if I can find a one from discount somewhere. My attention span for gaming hasn't been the greatest lately but god dammit I will try.

If I get an hour to play games it's a miracle, so one game I like lasts me forever. When GTA V's DLC comes out that will do me for 3-4 months. PC gaming is probably objectively better but I'd rather not bother to keep up with the games I want to play.

 

[Kiwi Tricker]

Did you guys swim in school, during PE?

Yup. We also had to pass swim tests, including treading water. In fact, I need to get swimming again, as it's a basic requirement for police fitness testing here.

 

[miaou]

Do you think learning proper front crawl-form is worth the hassle if you only plan on swimming for LSD-conditioning and in order not to "sink like a hammer"?
My breast stroke is okay, so I could work with that. My crawl is awful, though.

Unless you are incredibly inept inside the water and it takes you an extremely long time to learn it, then if you want swim for LSD-conditioning I would advocate spending the time to develop half-decent front crawl technique.

 

[xPINKx]

Yup. We also had to pass swim tests, including treading water. In fact, I need to get swimming again, as it's a basic requirement for police fitness testing here.

It's somewhat similar here. The last badge I owned was the silver one, being 400m in less that 25 minutes (300m front stroke, 100 back stroke), getting two things up from 2m depth, diving 10m, jumping from 3m and knowing some basic swimming safety.

Unless you are incredibly inept inside the water and it takes you an extremely long time to learn it, then if you want swim for LSD-conditioning I would advocate spending the time to develop half-decent front crawl technique.

Alright, thanks for the advice!

 

[KidAlchemy]

Did you guys swim in school, during PE?

We might have gone like once a year swimming on grades 3-6 but from that onward never. Except one class we ran to the beach on a cold weather and then swam to the jetty and back and ran back to school. Most of the class was sick the rest of the week .

 

[KnightTemplar]

True Detective is lined up ready after Hannibal.

What channel is Hannibal shown on over here?






I can swim but its one of those things i'd like to do more of but never get round to it.

Sky 1 and 2, Tuesday nights in the UK. We're about half way through Season 2 at the moment.

I usually watch Vikings first, then switch to Hannibal on Sky 2 as soon as that's finished.

 

[calvus]

Well Team USA is never in a boring game. That shit was crazy yesterday. Still lots of opportunity to go through.

 

[KnightTemplar]

Well Team USA is never in a boring game. That shit was crazy yesterday. Still lots of opportunity to go through.

Portugal were lucky to get the draw.

 

[Tosa]

I can't recall for sure, but I think swimming was a part of PE every year. Plus when I was a kid, my parents put me in swimming lessons beyond that until I was 12 or something.

If your swimming technique is half decent, you'll breathe better, if nothing else.

 

[JauntyAngle]

Do you think learning proper front crawl-form is worth the hassle if you only plan on swimming for LSD-conditioning and in order not to "sink like a hammer"?
My breast stroke is okay, so I could work with that. My crawl is awful, though.

One of my friends, who is a triathlete, recommended this:



It has a series of basic exercises you can do to learn the technique. She just goofed around in the pool a few times over about two weeks and then she could do it.

 

[DrBdan]

I don't think my elementary school ever included swimming as part of PE. That seems like a nightmare to supervise. My parents put me in swimming lessons which were fun up to the point where we started learning all sorts of different strokes and had to swim lengths. Then it stopped being fun.