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Are you saying that swimming is a sport where one succeeds because no one with talent is playing? I think you of all people ought to know better than that. |
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07-16-2007, 07:28 PM | #12 |
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If soccer is ever going to get big in the U.S., black kids from urban areas will have to push it forward.
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There are lots of sports that fall in this category. Like the stupid one with the sticks with nets. |
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Not here in northern California. Everybody, it seems, has kids on swim team. Its like little league where i live.
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Many average middle class white kids try out for swimming. That defined me. A talented kid in swimming will rise quickly. Swimmers are fit, because of the intensity of the training. However, if your kid is as talented as you say, he should make a splash on the national scene.
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The talent pool that produces our world class athletes in football, basketball, and track will have to be the same talent pool that produces our soccer players. (That's how you say it without it sounding racist) |
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As you said Arch, talent does rise quickly and I agree with that. I've learned over the past couple of years that there's swimming and then there's swimming. But when you start getting into those final heats there is a lot of talent in States like California, Texas, Florida etc... Yes, there are kids in swimming who do it because it's an individual sport and they may not be talented, but these are not the kids who are winning. |
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The good thing about swimming is it rewards hard work. You can and will improve if you work hard and often. And if you don't have the times, you don't do well nationally. One difference I found is that regional kids, like myself, worked just as hard as the national kids, but the national kids just had more talent. We had a few national kids, and I'd whoop them in practice but not at the meet.
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