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. :)
Still waiting for my swimming to click!!
Sike, I struggled from 6 to 9 with swimming. I would never be able to make the Summer Championships. Swam winter but winter swimming didn't help until I came back to Suburban Seahawks(after going to a Y program the year before) on my third year of winter swimming where I got coached by Charlie Kennedy more and Bill Crawford. Then, the summer after my third year of winter swimming, I won the 25 back and 50 free(at 10, it was a distance event in summer league), and got touched out for 2nd in the 25 fly. Finally, that winter, I think that this one kid at Suburban thought that he was going to be the top 10 and under boy at Suburban but it was me who became the Top Dog. I don't think that he was too happy about it.
Of course, I was never able to get another "click" moment again. One way, I would have felt that things clicked would have been getting a Junior National Cut. Who knows, if the training keep up and the progress keep moving at the same rate as this past year, then I might get that "click" moment in the next 12 months or so.
Still waiting for my swimming to click!!
Sike, I struggled from 6 to 9 with swimming. I would never be able to make the Summer Championships. Swam winter but winter swimming didn't help until I came back to Suburban Seahawks(after going to a Y program the year before) on my third year of winter swimming where I got coached by Charlie Kennedy more and Bill Crawford. Then, the summer after my third year of winter swimming, I won the 25 back and 50 free(at 10, it was a distance event in summer league), and got touched out for 2nd in the 25 fly. Finally, that winter, I think that this one kid at Suburban thought that he was going to be the top 10 and under boy at Suburban but it was me who became the Top Dog. I don't think that he was too happy about it.
Of course, I was never able to get another "click" moment again. One way, I would have felt that things clicked would have been getting a Junior National Cut. Who knows, if the training keep up and the progress keep moving at the same rate as this past year, then I might get that "click" moment in the next 12 months or so.
