VIDEO: Three Pro Swimmers Discuss Trash Talking in Sport

Braden Keith
by Braden Keith 8

February 25th, 2015 News, Video

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DocHawk
9 years ago

Would clucking like a chicken at a rival team at ncaa’s count as trash talk?
Can you trash talk with a clip board over my mouth?

TheTroubleWithX
9 years ago

Which reminds me…how many UVA students does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

Answer: One, he just holds the bulb and let’s the world revolve around him. 🙂

TheTroubleWithX
9 years ago

One issue here is that the biggest meets in swimming are international competitions. In sports like football and baseball, your teammates are going to be your teammates all throughout the season and into the biggest game or games you’ll play. So, if the Washington Redskins want to trash talk the Dallas Cowboys, that’s fine because you’re not going to be playing alongside each other, barring free agency or trades. This applies to coaches, too. Nick Saban and Urban Meyer are going to be coaching against each other, not alongside each other, on college football’s biggest stage. And while NCAA championships for swimming, I think we would all admit that they’re not nearly as big of a deal as the Olympics.… Read more »

liquid4TheBears
9 years ago

Thanks, they make some good points. I think that one reason swimming is more PC and that that’s not always a totally bad thing is because you’ve got kids literally swimming against adult pros,and you don’t see that as often in other professional sports. And after what I read about Yik-Yak this week, it seems like at the college age young adults, at least, are already well-versed in the bad variety of trash talk and could easily make the 3 guys above cry, so the younger kids need all the good role modeling they can get. But I especially thought the last point about the sponsors demanding unicorns and rainbows instead of some good-natured trash talk makes the sponsors sound… Read more »

swimmer joe
9 years ago

I disagree with trash talk during competition. Don’t turn the sport o swimming into a WWE match. Nor does it need to turn into a battle of NBA egos or the verbal version of ice hockey fist fights.

Every four years, all of the top pro and non-pro swimmers end up battling it out at the Olympics. So before you go and trash talk your colleagues and competition, be prepared to eat a little humble pie when the person you’ve been battling it out with all season ends up on your country’s Olympic team. Or when the person you’ve been trash talking all year basically blows you out of the water.

So be prepared to put your money where… Read more »

LikeAGirl
9 years ago

Some of my best and most exciting races have come from talking trash to teammates. And they always end in smiles from me and my teammates. I think it could definitely be a positive if with the right people

sven
9 years ago

I’d love to see more trash talk. I’m not saying it has to be malicious, but come on, put your pride on the line!

PAC12BACKER
Reply to  sven
9 years ago

Come on, your name can’t really be Sven.

About Braden Keith

Braden Keith

Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers' Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …

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