Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.
When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.
After my swims this weekend I think coach realized, you know what, you have to have a good one getting out of this meet. So I put the suit on and had a decent swim.
I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water - don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.
Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.
To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.
From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.
The last couple of years I've been on an empty tank. And that's gotta change.