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. :)
Parents
Former Member
The only time a stroke has clicked for me is in fly when my mentor made me get in to coach and I knew that I was horrible at fly. He gave me a set of fins and demonstrated the best "on-deck" fly I have ever seen...suddenly I could fly with fins. I took the fins off and ever since then have been a pro-fly swimmer and coach! Ask my assistant coaches how much fly my age groupers do in practice and they will just look at you with a smile (and probably say they couldn't count that high).
The only time a stroke has clicked for me is in fly when my mentor made me get in to coach and I knew that I was horrible at fly. He gave me a set of fins and demonstrated the best "on-deck" fly I have ever seen...suddenly I could fly with fins. I took the fins off and ever since then have been a pro-fly swimmer and coach! Ask my assistant coaches how much fly my age groupers do in practice and they will just look at you with a smile (and probably say they couldn't count that high).
