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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I really think that along with building lungs capacity you NEED a good stroke.
If they drop your in the middle of the sea, with gear on, you need strength- mental and physical, good strong lungs and a good stroke to get you though the water, one can not work without the other.
Because your wearing BDU ( which I'm assuming is full pant length) they naturally slow you down.
Flutter kicking may not work well because of the pant length, I don't know the science behind it - I'm just thinking flutter kicking may not work well maybe it's because the cloth going all the way down the leg is so loose it just has nothing to work with....nothing is cutting threw the water.... it just laying swishing around like it's in the washing machine.
Dolphin kick with a breaststroke pull could work.. because you legs are doing the cutting threw the water "so to speak" Even thought the cloth is there it could work better with your legs - with the up and down motion at the same time. The cloth is not going up and down at different times like with a flutter kick. Remember dolphin kick is a 2 kick process, one big kick followed by one small the small kick is done quickly after the one big kick.
A lot of fist time dolphin kicker will do the "big" kick, then slowly follow the another "big" kick.
This slows you down, it's KICK,kick, KICK, kick in a rhythmic fashion. www.youtube.com/watch
See how she does a big kick followed by a small kick.
Learn how to get the most out of your breaststroke pull, www.youtube.com/watch
Breaststroke kick could also work - but only if have a good breaststroke kick, breaststroke kick - too me - takes more time to learn how to do properly to get your kick to propel you down the pool.
Hope this helps.
I really think that along with building lungs capacity you NEED a good stroke.
If they drop your in the middle of the sea, with gear on, you need strength- mental and physical, good strong lungs and a good stroke to get you though the water, one can not work without the other.
Because your wearing BDU ( which I'm assuming is full pant length) they naturally slow you down.
Flutter kicking may not work well because of the pant length, I don't know the science behind it - I'm just thinking flutter kicking may not work well maybe it's because the cloth going all the way down the leg is so loose it just has nothing to work with....nothing is cutting threw the water.... it just laying swishing around like it's in the washing machine.
Dolphin kick with a breaststroke pull could work.. because you legs are doing the cutting threw the water "so to speak" Even thought the cloth is there it could work better with your legs - with the up and down motion at the same time. The cloth is not going up and down at different times like with a flutter kick. Remember dolphin kick is a 2 kick process, one big kick followed by one small the small kick is done quickly after the one big kick.
A lot of fist time dolphin kicker will do the "big" kick, then slowly follow the another "big" kick.
This slows you down, it's KICK,kick, KICK, kick in a rhythmic fashion. www.youtube.com/watch
See how she does a big kick followed by a small kick.
Learn how to get the most out of your breaststroke pull, www.youtube.com/watch
Breaststroke kick could also work - but only if have a good breaststroke kick, breaststroke kick - too me - takes more time to learn how to do properly to get your kick to propel you down the pool.
Hope this helps.
