Have you all had a day when you suddenly had a substantial breakthrough in learning to swim better? A day on which your swimming suddenly "clicked", so instead of trying hard to correct this or that detail of swimming better as you had been doing each day (how to kick, pull, breath, etc.), all of a sudden, you swam with all those details corrected, without effort, and without much thought about it. Months (and perhaps years) of thinking, practice, seem to be paying off altogether on that one day. I made some nice progress yesterday and today and feel great. My swim just suddenly became so much more relaxed and I was much more buoyant without effort. and breathing, which I had tried to improve, poses little problem now--and I wasn't even thinking about it. :D
I hope the progress will stay with me and I won't forget how to swim the way I did. :cool: I'm still a beginner. I will be really interested to hear you story. :)
The golden moment I experienced was during a 1000 free in a night duel meet. It caused me to drop from 10:27 best unshaven to 10:20 in that very race. (And 10:16 in the next one...) I dropped from 25 strokes per length to 17 because I figured out what my arms should feel like when I'm doing it better. That was the part that I made sure, starting at 6:30 the next morning, not to forget. These days, with more SDK's, I do about 13 strokes/length in freestyle, but really I'm only incrementing on what I learned in one moment 15 years ago.
The golden moment I experienced was during a 1000 free in a night duel meet. It caused me to drop from 10:27 best unshaven to 10:20 in that very race. (And 10:16 in the next one...) I dropped from 25 strokes per length to 17 because I figured out what my arms should feel like when I'm doing it better. That was the part that I made sure, starting at 6:30 the next morning, not to forget. These days, with more SDK's, I do about 13 strokes/length in freestyle, but really I'm only incrementing on what I learned in one moment 15 years ago.
