Alright, im new to this site, Im not a usual swimmer but i recently got in the pool and feel in love. I quickly made friends at the local pool on-base. Im a United States Marine with hopes and dreams in Becoming a Reconnaissaince Marine. In other words Marines with Gills. They are like the SEAL's from the Navy and Pararescue from the Air Force. The guys at the pool quickly tought me how to swim "the right way" cross-over and *** stroke as well as the Side-stroke and other technics. i go to the pool everyday. My biggest problem is dealing with the underwater 25 meter swim. To become a Recon Marine i have to accomplish the following....
1) 500 meter swim with out touching the floor in under 17min.
2) 30 min. tread
3) Deep end Rifle retreaval and then treading water for 5 sec.
4) 5 min. water float by using trousers as floating devise
5) 25 Meter underwater swim (my problem)
I have no problem with any of the others but the 25 meter kills me only because i feel like my lungs are going to explode. is there any tips of any kind out there that can prepare me for my "indoc" or evaluation to see if im sea worthy and serve as a Recon Marine. Thanks for hearing me out. :banana:
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Underwater 25m wearing BDUs??? That's going to be a bit harder than with a speedo. Well it could be worse, like you say you don't have to wear boots!
I would do underwater breaststroke. Try to work a dolphin kick in there too, in a way that feels natural to you. That makes underwater 25s easier for me at least. What I do is pull, followed by breaststroke kick with an immediate dolphin kick merged at the end in one motion. It's kind of hard to describe. But if that complicates or confuses in for you, just stick with breaststroke pull + kick. All that aside, the most important thing is to streamline on the push-off or dive, streamline after every stroke, streamline as much as possible.
I would practice with BDUs if you haven't been doing so already.
Here's a video you could check out
www.youtube.com/watch
The basic idea here is she's streamlining as much as possible to preserve the momentum from her dive. She pulls and does a dolphin kick in one motion and you can see how she accelerates. Then she does a breaststroke kick and surfaces. You don't need to worry about the rules of *** stroke starts because you're going the whole length underwater. But just look at how far she gets with her dive, one pull + dolphin kick, and one breaststroke kick.
And one more thing. You are probably not in the habit of tying the blousing bands on your BDU trousers (I never did) because you probably always fold the slack out of them and tuck them into your boots. However for this swim it might be a good idea to tie them to keep your trouser legs from flopping around as much, since you won't have boots on.
Underwater 25m wearing BDUs??? That's going to be a bit harder than with a speedo. Well it could be worse, like you say you don't have to wear boots!
I would do underwater breaststroke. Try to work a dolphin kick in there too, in a way that feels natural to you. That makes underwater 25s easier for me at least. What I do is pull, followed by breaststroke kick with an immediate dolphin kick merged at the end in one motion. It's kind of hard to describe. But if that complicates or confuses in for you, just stick with breaststroke pull + kick. All that aside, the most important thing is to streamline on the push-off or dive, streamline after every stroke, streamline as much as possible.
I would practice with BDUs if you haven't been doing so already.
Here's a video you could check out
www.youtube.com/watch
The basic idea here is she's streamlining as much as possible to preserve the momentum from her dive. She pulls and does a dolphin kick in one motion and you can see how she accelerates. Then she does a breaststroke kick and surfaces. You don't need to worry about the rules of *** stroke starts because you're going the whole length underwater. But just look at how far she gets with her dive, one pull + dolphin kick, and one breaststroke kick.
And one more thing. You are probably not in the habit of tying the blousing bands on your BDU trousers (I never did) because you probably always fold the slack out of them and tuck them into your boots. However for this swim it might be a good idea to tie them to keep your trouser legs from flopping around as much, since you won't have boots on.
