7 Weird Things Only Swimmers Say
7 Weird Things Only Swimmers Say
By Mike Gustafson
When you’re a swimmer, you hear weird things. You know you’re a swimmer when you hear these weird things, and you don’t think of them as weird at all. You think of them as normal. Every day musings heard from the gutter, pool deck, or during warm-ups. They are comments said almost every day.
“This pool is slow.”
“Sorry I breathed into the wall.”
“Don’t one-arm.”
“Fly and die, last one fast one!”
They are secret code — comments only (usually) swimmers understand. It’s just what happens when you’ve been locked away in a concrete pool for hours, weeks, months, and years of your life. You invent new phrases, new ways of describing things. It is a swimmer’s world, with a swimmer’s own language.
Below are just a few of the many, many odd things you’ll hear on a pool deck…
