I admit it. I am addicted to fins. So I have decided to help other fin-aholics (I know you are out there) by creating these 12 steps to an aquatic life free from fins:

1. We admitted we were powerless over fins, that our workouts had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than our bare feet could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our coach, as we understood him.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our swimming equipment.
5. Admitted to our coach, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have our coach remove all these defects of equipment.
7. Humbly asked our coach to remove our short fins, too.
8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, particularly those we crushed in practice who were not wearing fins, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people at every pool possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10. Continued to take personal inventory of our swimming equipment and when we sneaked fins back into our mesh bag, promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through yoga and visualization to improve our conscious contact with our coach, as we understood him, asking only for knowledge of his will for us to be able to swim finless without sinking.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to fin-aholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Who knows, maybe we need to start bodysuitaholics anonymous as well.

Yours in Swimming,
Gary Sr.

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