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. :)
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It sounds stupid, but I learned how to swim butterfly after watching race after race of the Olympics last year. The timing got imprinted somehow and it just clicked when I went to swim the stroke. I'm not fast but I made it past that initial block and can now do everything in the proper order.
That's good but on the flip side, if you get imprinted this way, you should NEVER watch the Slow-Motion replays ............:)
It sounds stupid, but I learned how to swim butterfly after watching race after race of the Olympics last year. The timing got imprinted somehow and it just clicked when I went to swim the stroke. I'm not fast but I made it past that initial block and can now do everything in the proper order.
That's good but on the flip side, if you get imprinted this way, you should NEVER watch the Slow-Motion replays ............:)
