Swinging or swinging?
This weekend is the Federal Wrestling and Alpine Festival in Pratteln. In preparation for it, I took another look at the small but important differences to swinging.
Let's fast-forward three days into the future. It's Saturday, 8 o'clock. The warm-up is just beginning down on the sawdust. Two huge men in Edelweiss shirts and nappy-like trousers are trying to put each other on their backs. Ambition and adrenaline are in the air, after all, there's a muni to be won.
A very similar thing happened the night before at the nearby swingers club "History". Pairings were made, beads of sweat formed right after the first hold and someone was always on their back at the end. All this even without a shirt and trousers to hook onto. And there are also a few other important differences between the two confusingly similar sports:
About me
I am a cartoonist and live in Zurich. Aha, so a city dweller who has certainly never been to a swing festival - that's right! And never at a swingers' party either ... Somehow I'm a bit suspicious of this recurring swinging hype. This Helvetic ideal world thing. They drink there too, just earlier than at other sporting events.
