I’ve often marveled at ducks as they cruise across lakes and ponds, gliding ever so blissfully and so seemingly serene across the water. Then I chuckle, knowing FULL WELL, that below that calm lies the panic, a fervor of activity as the ducks orange little legs are working overtime to get them across the lake. We’ll never see the sweat of a ducks brow…who knows if they even sweat…all i know is that when I watch the Aurora Synchronized Swim Club, my wonderment is the same. Those girls can stay in the water, bobbing effortlessly as they raise their hands, spin, kick, leap, propel each other into the air, smile, keep the beat…all the things I have trouble doing on LAND…and while they do this…there is also a fervor, a panic happening below where the eye can’t see…and it is called the EGG BEATER.
Ah. The Egg Beater.
‘Sure Bridge’ Emily says me, ‘egg beating’ into her third hour in the middle of the pool. ‘You just pretend your sitting like a man with great posture in a chair and move one leg this way and the other that way…see?’
She momentarily ‘egg beats’ with a fervor, actually raising herself out of the water. I think she even tossed in a ‘Weeeeee!’
‘Why pretend that I’m sitting like a man?? Why not a lady?’
“Because guys always sit with there legs spread wide apart in a chair, all like macho and stuff, but with bad posture, so we say like a guy but with great posture…’
‘Like that guy?’ i ask, pointing to jason carter, sitting in a chair by the pool, the camera resting to his left, his legs far apart from each and his posture questionable.
‘Like that guy.’
Hm. I try it. i’m surrounded by about 20 of them in the water, trying to breath normally and not pant like this is one of the greatest work out’s of my life (which incidentally, it is). None of them are even breaking a sweat. In fact, they are all chatting and laughing and making idle conversation, while they pretend not to notice me huffing and puffing and cramping and slowly but surely, sinking.
This ‘Egg Beater’ has, for the moment, beaten me. I think i was able to sustain myself for about 20 seconds before vanessa bray (awesome coach) threw me an ‘Aqua Jogger’. I pretended like it was not necessary, but between you and me, I grabbed that floatation device so fast, tucked it underneath my button and sat. ‘Like a Dude’. Ah.
At that point, I got the motion for Carter, we were up in about 20 seconds….
