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:
Yes - any time you are practicing this stuff, do so with supervision.
I always think it's a good idea to release a little air as you go. That 'out of breath' feeling is really an excess of CO2, not a lack of Oxygen. So you can release some of that CO2, which releases some of that CO2 buildup. But watch out for passing out... that's why you NEED supervision.
Stay relaxed. In a swimming-with-just-a-speedo scenario, it's much easier for me to go 25 yards underwater if I go slow than if I go fast. Sort of like a car... your best miles-per-gallon is somewhere in the middle. If you go really fast, you're just burning fuel too quickly.
Personally, when I swim underwater, I try to swim right along the bottom of the pool, just an inch or two above. I find that there's a certain 'ground effect' that helps me stick to the bottom, so I can focus more on going forward and less on staying submerged.
-Rick
Yes - any time you are practicing this stuff, do so with supervision.
I always think it's a good idea to release a little air as you go. That 'out of breath' feeling is really an excess of CO2, not a lack of Oxygen. So you can release some of that CO2, which releases some of that CO2 buildup. But watch out for passing out... that's why you NEED supervision.
Stay relaxed. In a swimming-with-just-a-speedo scenario, it's much easier for me to go 25 yards underwater if I go slow than if I go fast. Sort of like a car... your best miles-per-gallon is somewhere in the middle. If you go really fast, you're just burning fuel too quickly.
Personally, when I swim underwater, I try to swim right along the bottom of the pool, just an inch or two above. I find that there's a certain 'ground effect' that helps me stick to the bottom, so I can focus more on going forward and less on staying submerged.
-Rick
