Bungee Swimming

Bungee swimming is probably the funnest type of practice that is given to us. You all have no idea. I guess it's not bungee swimming, per se, but that's what we call it. The chords are more like rubber tubes with a belt on one end and a strap on the other. We hook the strap to the starting block and the belt to the swimmer. The swimmer then swims (or pulls on the lane line) to the other side of the pool, stretching the chord extremely tight.

Now is when we pit the watchers against the swimmer. The swimmer's goal is to swim fast enough to get the tube to have a little slack. The watchers' goal is to pull the chord fast enough that no slack is created. The swimmer never wins, but even so, she gets an awesomely fun experience along with it.

However, my lame-o lane was skittish about the chords (they tend to have flaws, causing welts if one isn't careful), and very, very few would help pull the chord. The serval and I ended up with the brunt of the work; one other girl helped whenever one of us was in the water. The result is that my hands are heinously sore, mostly from the chord and partially from the lane line. But it was lots of fun. With the chord, you can swim a 25 so frigretchen fast! I love it.