Hello,
I recently took up swimming (October) @ age 43 and have never done much else than splash around in a pool.
I trained myself using Total Immersion (I have been looking at the forums here and I suspsect I just threw a hand grenade into this thread :) )
As with other skills I have learned, I feel one has to develop their own form and style - so I am not following TI by the book....
Anyway, this is the first time I have seen myself swimming and I see some errors:
a. rolling too far to breath or simply turning my head to breathe
b. head position
c. legs uselessly kicking around..
video of me swimming:
link.
any pointers on how to
a. work my kick into my stroke better.
b. work on body roll.
Anyway, I have to say I LOVE swimming. to me its like mediation, excercise, pilates, dance, and flying all in one.
I wish i had discovered it sooner, but better late then never.
Anyway, I welcome your feedback.
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...thanks for your kind responses .
I am going to try entering the hand a bit later. and pulling wider with a higher elbow.
WIth the rolling too far.. I know I am doing it but I just keep doing it!
One book I am just beginning 'Breakthrough Swimming" and might try some of the exercises in there.
One thing that really intrigues me about swimming is the 'feel' for the water, - water density is great feedback!.
Sometimes it seems overwhelming then I read stuff like this:
blog.wired.com/.../great-swimmers.html
Great Swimmers Transcend Science
What's her secret? At some level, it's almost mystical: beyond the ability of experts in biomechanics and fluid dynamics to explain.
From a 2004 New Yorker profile, one which explains that no human-designed object swims as well as a fish, that simulating the motion of a swimmer is as computationally demanding as a model of galaxy formation, and that swimmers like Coughlin literally possess a "heightened physical perception of the water around the body":One of the video clips that Mittal is currently feeding into his simulation program is of Natalie Coughlin, sinuous as a ribbon, underwater dolphin-kicking seventeen times in a row down the length of a pool. Should it ultimately prove useful as a training aid, one result of this research might be computer-calculated instructions for the mechanically perfect stroke, the one that science has determined will produce the lowest turbulence, the optimal arrangement of invisible eddies, the swiftest route through the water. But the things that a computer is least equipped to factor in-drive, vulnerability, the mysterious relationship between racer and water-are the things that Coughlin makes swimming people talk about. "It's like listening to Yo-Yo Ma," Boomer says.
As computer programs and processors become more powerful, scientists will someday be able to explain Natalie Coughlin and Michael Phelps. But for now, just enjoy them.
though I am eager to get my stroke better, I guess if super computers haven't figured out yet, I should be a little more patient with myself :)
...thanks for your kind responses .
I am going to try entering the hand a bit later. and pulling wider with a higher elbow.
WIth the rolling too far.. I know I am doing it but I just keep doing it!
One book I am just beginning 'Breakthrough Swimming" and might try some of the exercises in there.
One thing that really intrigues me about swimming is the 'feel' for the water, - water density is great feedback!.
Sometimes it seems overwhelming then I read stuff like this:
blog.wired.com/.../great-swimmers.html
Great Swimmers Transcend Science
What's her secret? At some level, it's almost mystical: beyond the ability of experts in biomechanics and fluid dynamics to explain.
From a 2004 New Yorker profile, one which explains that no human-designed object swims as well as a fish, that simulating the motion of a swimmer is as computationally demanding as a model of galaxy formation, and that swimmers like Coughlin literally possess a "heightened physical perception of the water around the body":One of the video clips that Mittal is currently feeding into his simulation program is of Natalie Coughlin, sinuous as a ribbon, underwater dolphin-kicking seventeen times in a row down the length of a pool. Should it ultimately prove useful as a training aid, one result of this research might be computer-calculated instructions for the mechanically perfect stroke, the one that science has determined will produce the lowest turbulence, the optimal arrangement of invisible eddies, the swiftest route through the water. But the things that a computer is least equipped to factor in-drive, vulnerability, the mysterious relationship between racer and water-are the things that Coughlin makes swimming people talk about. "It's like listening to Yo-Yo Ma," Boomer says.
As computer programs and processors become more powerful, scientists will someday be able to explain Natalie Coughlin and Michael Phelps. But for now, just enjoy them.
though I am eager to get my stroke better, I guess if super computers haven't figured out yet, I should be a little more patient with myself :)
