{"id":485973,"date":"2021-08-27T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=485973"},"modified":"2021-08-27T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:52:25","slug":"why-we-swim-an-inner-look-at-what-swimming-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/why-we-swim-an-inner-look-at-what-swimming-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Swim: An Inner Look At What Swimming Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why We Swim: An Inner Look At What Swimming Means<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Heading into her senior season at the University of Texas, Grace Ariola will be a Fellow this fall for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openwaterswimming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Open Water Swimming Association<\/a>. Recently, she read the New York Times best-selling book, Why We Swim (By Bonnie Tsui), and wrote an eloquent essay related to the book. Here is Ariola&#8217;s piece.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Grace Ariola, WOWSA Fellow<\/p>\n<p>To say <em>Why We Swim<\/em> was enlightening would be an understatement. It\u2019s illuminating, broadening. It\u2019s gratifying. It speaks. It\u2019s self-serving \u2013 it belongs to the one who reads it. I am Bonnie Tsui, and Tsui knows me. She knew what I needed to hear and what I needed to learn. She knew what all swimmers, pool and open water, young and old, need to learn. To fellow pool swimmers, beginning and ending their careers, this is what I needed to hear now, and what I wish I\u2019d heard when I was twelve, entering the world of elite swimming.<\/p>\n<p>Tsui starts with the global history of swimming, what it means in different world cultures, how it assists in daily life and saves in environmental disasters. She starts in Iceland, where fisherman Gu\u00f0laugur Fri\u00f0\u00fe\u00f3rsson became a national icon when his fishing boat overturned late at night, killing his crew and forcing Gu\u00f0laugur to swim through near-frozen water to miraculously survive. His story is a rallying cry for Icelandic water safety and enjoyment. Gu\u00f0laugur is a recurring character throughout the book, whose tale encompasses the major themes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/for-david-plummer-and-katie-meili-perseverance-pays-off-in-bronze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">perseverance<\/a>, healing, self-discovery, community, isolation, and life through water.<\/p>\n<p>Tsui interviewed and researched all over the world, and it shows. Her extensive knowledge, descriptions of different lives and journeys, and personal reflections on the meaning of swimming are painful, honest and eye-opening. She talks about swimming \u201cas a way for us to remember how to play.\u201d As grownups, as adults, remembering how to be kids. As loners, remembering how to be together. As survivors, remembering one\u2019s own body. She tells the story of Kim Chambers, overcoming severe illness and regaining the ability to walk through record-breaking swimming. She connects all of this with how it all started for many of us, as kids, playing with our friends in our too-big, ankle-length parkas of all colors.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has swum for most of my life, I thought I knew this sport pretty damn well. Although a pool swimmer, I\u2019ve trained in open water. And although a sprinter, I\u2019ve had coaches whose first and only love was long distance freestyle. When we did lake swims, I hated them. It was claustrophobic to me, I felt trapped in my goggles, only free as far as I could see. I could feel the enormity of the water lapping against me like a warning. This was not a pool. As a burgeoning elite pool swimmer, I could not handle the unknown of the turbulent murky water then \u2013 it was just too wild.<\/p>\n<p>But that was over ten years ago. Now, in my senior year of college, the unknown of turbulent murky water takes on profound metaphorical meaning as I face the rest of my life, free from the structure of competitive pool swimming. Drawing inspiration from the book I decide to face my fear literally. When I arrive at Barton Creek Pool, an Austin swimming staple of clear water fed by underground springs and enclosed by dams, I could feel Tsui\u2019s words for my own.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, as I pull into a parking spot, I see my college coach walking in. I yell to him, and we walk in together. As we approach the entrance, we see an old teammate, someone we both knew in the swimming world. Within three minutes of my journey to remember why I swim, I\u2019m greeted by two people who represent the community and healing power of swimming. Prophetic. As I prepare to get in the water, there are more than a hundred people already swimming. They are adults of all ages, moving up and down the lake pool. I stand and watch for a while, figuring out the rules before I jump in. There\u2019s a cold pit in my stomach when I realize there are no rules. People are just swimming.<\/p>\n<p>During my swim, I realize I can see the bottom. I\u2019m not trapped in my goggles anymore. It isn\u2019t the supernatural, all-encompassing awakening I had imagined, but I do realize a few things about myself. First, I feel out of control in this big body of water. There is nothing to guide me or stabilize me .Second, I am so worried about hitting someone that I disrupt my own swim to make sure I don\u2019t disturb any of the other swimmers. Third, when I\u2019m done, I have no idea how far I\u2019ve swum, and there is a wonderful sense of relief and freedom in that. There is no comparison, no clock, no competition here. A safe place.<\/p>\n<p>Pool swimming has been my identity for most of my life. I was the girl people referred to as \u201cthe swimmer,\u201d as I\u2019m sure many of us were. In the last few years, injury and life events have led me here, in my senior year, nowhere near my best. This state of un-excellence created such cognitive dissonance in me, such grief. While I was reading <em>Why We Swim<\/em>, I kept wishing that my coaches had read it and absorbed even a fraction of the mindset Tsui describes. I was not raised to think swimming was fun. Swimming was about achieving excellence. Excellence involved doing things that were not fun, because excellence itself is supposed to be the fun part. And, to be fair, excellence is fun. Some of the highest moments of my life are at the biggest meets in competitive swimming, on top of podiums, receiving the validation of my peers. I grew addicted to that feeling, and when it was gone, so was I.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why We Swim<\/em> reminded me that swimming should have never been about excellence. It\u2019s about life, about play and youth, about joy and self-actualization. There is nothing for me to grieve for. I will be able to swim long past my last collegiate meet. To fellow pool swimmers, competitors, excellence-seekers, mourners of what used to be, deniers, dreamers: there will always be water for us. 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