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I've been watching a lot of old Dr. Who episodes on netflix, and just now I turned on TV to watch synchronized swimming with the volume mute on. I thought for a second that I had left a Dr. Who disc in the player.
It was frightening and grotesque sight: arms and legs and bare flesh in odd configurations popping up and down and contorting around in the water punctuated by the sudden appearance of faces with strange manic smiles painted on them.
And I thought, If a person had never seen or heard of sync swimming and if you were introduced to it as an Olympic event in a science fiction story you'd probably laugh out loud at such a bizarre idea.
Hard to believe that so many people work so hard to perfect such difficult physical skills to acheive something that looks so whacky. I like Cirque du Soleil but somewhere there must be a line between competitive sports and oddball entertainment. Or not?
It was frightening and grotesque sight: arms and legs and bare flesh in odd configurations popping up and down and contorting around in the water punctuated by the sudden appearance of faces with strange manic smiles painted on them.
And I thought, If a person had never seen or heard of sync swimming and if you were introduced to it as an Olympic event in a science fiction story you'd probably laugh out loud at such a bizarre idea.
Hard to believe that so many people work so hard to perfect such difficult physical skills to acheive something that looks so whacky. I like Cirque du Soleil but somewhere there must be a line between competitive sports and oddball entertainment. Or not?
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