i know there has been a number of posts/threads on this topic and i did search the archives, but i still wanted to post this thread. ok, so i've been trying to learn freestyle since 2005, and i still haven't got the breathing right. this has been really frustrating for me. i practice almost every day on a pool that is about 5' 5'' deep at one end. i have done a lot of research-hours of youtubing and checking out swimfast dvds have resulted in nothing! i've invested about $200 into private lessons, with no significant output! my goal is very simple-to swim freestyle laps in a 25 yard pool; is that asking for too much? i'm not interested in the other difficult strokes! i think my problem lies in the fact that i don't breathe out air completely before breathing in! are there any drills to work on that? also, some swimmers say that breath out through your nose, and some say through your mouth-i'm confused! if anyone can help me out, i'd really appreciate it! i want to learn this thing, and as you can see, i don't want to give up! TIA!
What confuses me is you mentioning a six beat kick? What is that?
It's a fast flutter kick, quite common. Has different uses. If you just tell your legs to pick up the pace a bit, they will (most likely) fall into the six-beat kick right away.
"debashis," one thing that has stood me in good stead was me mum instructing me, around age 2, to put my head under the bathwater and blow bubbles when I importuned her to teach me how to swim. So maybe just playing around with exhaling underwater would help. Did you bob for apples?
I just got Lindsay Benko's DVD. I like it, but I must practice the stroke differently. She has a mastery, and a shoulder mobility, I will never have. Going for the form without the biomechanics to support it won't help me a whit.
Regards, VB
What confuses me is you mentioning a six beat kick? What is that?
It's a fast flutter kick, quite common. Has different uses. If you just tell your legs to pick up the pace a bit, they will (most likely) fall into the six-beat kick right away.
"debashis," one thing that has stood me in good stead was me mum instructing me, around age 2, to put my head under the bathwater and blow bubbles when I importuned her to teach me how to swim. So maybe just playing around with exhaling underwater would help. Did you bob for apples?
I just got Lindsay Benko's DVD. I like it, but I must practice the stroke differently. She has a mastery, and a shoulder mobility, I will never have. Going for the form without the biomechanics to support it won't help me a whit.
Regards, VB
