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. :)
I remember a day in practice well. My coaches had been trying to teach me to swim free with my elbow higher for about a year at that point. I was swimming like I'd hit the lane lines. But this particular practice, one of the coaches swam with us. I happened to catch a glimpse of the coach while we were both swimming and I saw his stroke and it suddenly clicked in my mind. I got it! :banana: I can still picture what I saw to this day and it's been 5 years now. My swimming suddenly started to improve and it was all due to that one day and that one sight of seeing that coach swim.
I remember a day in practice well. My coaches had been trying to teach me to swim free with my elbow higher for about a year at that point. I was swimming like I'd hit the lane lines. But this particular practice, one of the coaches swam with us. I happened to catch a glimpse of the coach while we were both swimming and I saw his stroke and it suddenly clicked in my mind. I got it! :banana: I can still picture what I saw to this day and it's been 5 years now. My swimming suddenly started to improve and it was all due to that one day and that one sight of seeing that coach swim.
