Swimming: An Underrated Sport

Documentary about the sport of swimming and how it is underrated, and how tough the sport can be.

[karalightfoot]

"Can you hang out?"

"I have practice. "

Like if this is a common conversation.

[briannasimon]

Can we have a moment of silence for all the hair damaged in this sport? 😞🙏 (my hair used to be a dark brown, but now the ends are super blonde and dry)

[thecraftsman]

I agree! Swimming is underrated. I use to wrestle and play baseball and what we did in practice and competition is nothing like what these swimmers do. My cousin was a swimmer and a football player in high school he even said swim practice was way more grueling than football practice, and he went on to play D1 football in college. Swimming is also THE perfect sport for conditioning if you do play football or other sports. I decided to try to race my daughter who is a competitive swimmer and I was gassed at the end of my 25yard and she continued with a 50 yard freestyle and SMOKED me. I am way bigger and stronger than my 11 year old but she is conditioned to handle the endurance and power through. I have nothing but respect for competitive swimmers, they are some of the toughest athletes on earth. anyone who says differently never swam a race or practiced for 2-3 hours straight per day everyday!

[em]

"staring at the bottom of a look for two hours makes for a mentally strong athlete" actually my mind wanders way easier now because of swimming

[meani]

Swimming is an incredibly undervalued and difficult sport. Moving effectively on land is challenging depending on whats required (catching a ball, skating, hurling ones body through space as in gymnastics), but water adds an element of gravity-importance and resistance in a foreign medium that demands you pay constant attention to your limitations. Moving in water is humbling and to be able to move within it with grace and speed is a great accomplishment.

[katiecost]

Nonswimer: cool video

Swimmer: DAAAANNGGG THAT POOL THO

[cailtinmccarty]

Thank you!!! Finally someone understands. My friends always say "your always at swim practice, what do you use? Floaties". It's just like, you try doing a sport when you can't breathe whenever you want.

[thehavefun]

When ever someone says swimming is easy in front of my coach she tells them to come to our practice and after that practice they never come back

[elisebutler]

Swimmers in Australia are demi-gods! We LOVE our swimmers. They are well paid, looked after, managed and make a lot of money from endorsements. Australians definitely understand the dedication it takes to reach the top.

[aliparry]

Honestly, swimming is both a team sport AND an individual sport, just like it's both a sport and a lifestyle.

[BigTim]

My friend John said he did swimming and then he asked me if I wore a speedo and I said, "yes" and he was like "EWWW" and I just though to myself, "this guy isn't a real swimmer

[diyathome]

To all the non swimmers that are sitting here laughing at this video... put it this way...

Swimmers kick more than soccer players do,
Do more flips than cheerleaders do,
Do more sets than volleyball and basketball players do
And more yards than a football player....
Still easy????

NO DIDN’T THINK SO!!! now I’m not saying that the sports I just said are easy but I’m just trying to say don’t UNDERESTIMATE swimming it’s harder than you think.

[catamaran]

I swim and it’s TOTALLY underrated. And people who say it’s easy and anyone can do it should think again, because it’s not easy to balance school work and swimming. Or maybe that’s just me because I also am on a robotics team and in my schools band. But I swim 9-10 hours a week and I’m only in 7th grade. I’ve heard people who are in high school and college say it’s easy, and then when that actually try it themselves, they’re even slower than someone who’s at least 2-3 years younger than them.

[jasminejade]

omg THANK YOU! Swimming is one of the hardest sports ive ever done by far and ive done quite a few. When i first started swimming it was so tiring and I really kinda hated it. The more I did it though the more I realized I loved it, it was me, the water, and my thoughts and it feels great. Im a freshman girl on the boys varsity swim team and I can for damn sure say it is a sport. Congrats to all my fellow swimmers who show up to practice every day to stare at the bottom of a pool

[Kat-nrki]

"you jump into the cold pool at 6 in the morning" me: pfft😂😂😂 u meant 5?

[broskixx]

Someone:Swimming isn't hard
Me:You try doing any sport without breathing

[LilLy-ogjp]

Swimming: the only sport you get yelled at for breathing

[amayagram]

Really just any sport that involves water is underrated..

[speedskater]

I was on the swim team in high school and I invited some of the football players when their season ended if they thought swimming was a powder puff sport that they should come and try out if they thought it was so easy, and they should not have a difficult time being in top shape at the end of their season. When they showed up we were doing sprint relays with 3 in a lane where you sprint as fast as you can for 25 yards and your team member takes off and you have the time for 2 of your team to swim 50 yards total before you dive in again so about a 40 second rest. We would do this for about 45 minutes, they lasted about 3 rotations then got out of the pool and puked on the deck and never gave us any shit again about swimming being a wimpy sport.

[itsmeganklinger]

This is so true, but here's the thing to people who don't think swimming is a hard sport or even a sport:They're jealous of us swimmers because they know that they could never do the awesomeness that us swimmers do.🏊🏻💟🏊🏻‍♀️#IswimandI'mproud