Ok, is this wet enough? So just you know, the rain drops can be pretty painful when landing on your head and lip.
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The last swim of 2023
My second medley, in correct order: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle.
One of my goals of the year is to swim the butterfly.
… and …
I did. One goal fulfilled.
My first medley IM
Merry Christmas peep!
A yucky day, our 9am tennis is rained out. So I stayed in the 80° pool for 0.5 mile. I also swam and recorded my very first individual medley, with the wrong order. The correct order is butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle. Guess I don’t watch enough swimming events, or watched but not paying close attention. Oh well, senior moment.
By the way, relay order goes differently, by speed: backstroke breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle the.
- the last swim of 2023 – 2nd medley
没的打 只有泡池子了
闲得慌 游了第一个 IM 混合
事后觉得有点不对…
嗯 顺序错了 [偷笑]
一下 应是: 蝶 仰 
自由[呲牙]
继续努力 大妈加油 [调皮]
My first butterfly video
One of this year’s goals has met: swim the fly stroke. Although a lot of implements are needed but I can swim the length of the pool and back. So it’s an achievement for little old me.
Tennis & diving
It’s a glorious day for tennis.
Better yet, I won all my three sets with three guys. We played at vl.
… perhaps because I wear my dive shop’s t shirt – how do I look? -:)
Unbelievably bad line calls
It’s the Thanksgiving Day, and I’m thankful for my family and friends and foes in my life, and an interesting life I lead so far.
I started my day with a warm up swim, then tennis, pickleball, and capped the morning with another short swim – static stretching. I know the verdict (if the static stretching after a game is good or suitable …) is out there, and swimming is certainly NOT static stretching, but I like to do it, to relax.
Tennis:
I’m still trying to correct my serve: to keep my left tossing arm high longer and eliminate waiter’s tray (why is waiter’s tray no good?)
Two double faults in my first serve game – I didn’t practice much in between matches – my bad. Bad line calls one after another; one of the opponents said he can bagel me. I replied, “not off me.” I thought I was going to have a relaxed game on a holiday, but it turned out not to be the case. So I reverted back to my waiter’s tray serve. We lost 4-5, 5-3, 4-5 (first to five and 1 point decides a game – no deuce).
Pickleball:
Played with a new group of players. The best player (3.5 – apparently there is a rating in pb? ) in the group teamed herself up with her husband who’s equally good, vs me and one guy who’s also a newbie. The couple has been playing for more than three years. I’d think they would split up to make the game more interesting, which is the way I would have done. Oh well. We lost 2-11.
Water volleyball
My first time playing this … don’t know how, except serving … thought I could just wing it … but didn’t work well. So my hands hurt.
Taking a lesson or two would be a good idea.
62′ dive @ Blue Grotto – my record
Setting record on my dive isn’t really my goal but it just happened: I went down to 61.9′ with Chris, an instructor @ Blue Grotto Williston, FL. It’s a few minutes north from Devil’s Den, on the other side of the road.
.. more pix n videos on Google Maps
The entrance fee is $55. It’s the first time that I pay for my cylinders, at $12.50 each – they were covered during the training period. Blue Grotto rents out at $11.50 (air & Nitrox). But EAN32Fill is $15.50.
Woods & Water’s t shirt is pretty nice, I wear it everywhere. To manage the weight, I bought a wagon to transport my gears. It’s neat in the bag in the morning, and messy after the dives.
There are many creatures in the water. The most famous are two turtles, Virgil and Turbo. I saw both but only caught one on my video – the sealed case didn’t work well, water got in … fortunately I saw it and stopped the bleeding – the phone still works.
… and the compound
… and my newest handbag: Sherwood ST1000 flash light -:) finely made, that includes the package box.
Utility wagon
After a few dives, I realized that I need a wagon to carry the heavy load of my diving gears, especially after the dives – they become extra heavy due to wetness.
Coincidentally, the day I received my wagon from Amazon, I also got IndiGogo email promoting the next new thing – Lithely: Electric Utility Wagon with Power Bank. It’s with six purchasing options:
- $255 (52% off)
- $199 (52% off)
- $219 (47% off)
- $275 (48% off)
- $389 (53% off)
- $429 (48% off)
Pretty costly (compares to mine) but only loads up to 132 lb. It looks almost identical to the $52 that loads up to 200 lb. When it folds, it doesn’t look compact to me, looks bulkier than mine.
The new new thing has always been in the eyes of beholders.
Charlie Munger says a lot of venture capitalists screw their investors, per Fortune magazine.
It was 2012, I ‘invested’ $250 on a projector that you could use your laptop to display, bypass a conventional projector. It was by a Beijing team. … of course I didn’t receive anything, and never heard from them again. I understand my risk and could be park with $250. I made no noise, till now -:) Vulture capitalists, as one reader wrote.
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4 strokes of luck
the pretty moon this morning
I often use ‘front crawl’ as the breaststroke. Why? I’ve no idea. Actually, front crawl is freestyle lol
My bad.
Don’t know what I’m talking about.
Butterfly at its peak, is faster than free … but freestyle is an endurance style that can go miles on end.
So, once for all (myself mainly), the four style of strokes of swimming are:
- freestyle – also known as front crawl
- butterfly stroke
- breaststroke –
- backstroke
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