Re: 3km


> >> >>It doesn't take a year to learn to put your head in the water.
> >> >>Breathing is a little harder, but nowhere near a year. So we're
> >> >>talking about fear of water. Your problem is psychological.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > It is not psychological. It was technique. I had to relearn how to
swim.
> >> > Once I learned how, then I worked on speed.
> >> > The next year, I worked on speed.
> >>
> >> You said you had to learn to put your head in the water. If the problem
> >> wasn't psychologica, what was the problem?
> >
> >Goggles, or lack there of. When I first figured out how to swim i was
> >swimming with my face forward, out of the water. Once I got goggles I had
to
> >learn how to move again. At first, I would lift my head up, and then put
it
> >back down. I had to learn how to breathe on myside.
> >
> >Now, it does seam trivial, but back then, it was not.
>
> But what was the problem. You got goggles, so you put your head in the
> water. It doesn't take a year to learn to do that. You don't even have
> to learn to do it anyway. Swimming craw stroke with your head up is a
> lot harder than swimming with your head in the water. Please don't
> tell me it's easier for you.
>
It isnt easyer to do it head up. It was all I knew. Now, I can bearly do it,
even though I needed to do 150m of it 2 yrs ago for my Bronze Medalion.

When you have to relearn how to do a stroke, at can take a while.

It did not take a full year. it took about 4 months, that is the length of
time our team practiced each year, and it was for about an hour 3 times a
week.

This has nothing to do with fitness.

It has to do with lack of skill.

And now, I am a lot better.

Micheal


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