Hello all of you,
this is my first post here and I wanted some help. The problem is that I can't properly swim the front crawl. I can just a little bit, but I get tired too quickly, I move really slow and I don't know how to properly breathe during front crawl.
But I can swim the back crawl good enough in my opinion and I prefer the back crawl to front crawl much more. But it seems to me that only women swim the back crawl (I'm a 16-year old boy). And is it a shame that I can only swim the back crawl and not front crawl. And because I can't swim the front crawl, I don't want to go to the beach in summer to swim and don't want to go to the swimming pools in winter. My mother always kinda bullies me if I say that I don't want to go to the beach or swimming pools by saying that I can't swim.
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Absolutely, I find most of the time when you're worried about what someone else will think they aren't even paying attention to you.
If your beach is anything like the ones I've been to then you'll have plenty of other people around. No one is going to notice you trying to perfect your stroke. Even things like floating are normal for people that are on the beach (think snorkeling).
Any time that you are spending improving your technique is improvement, and at a certain point your form will start looking just like a competitive swimmer that has been swimming all their life. You may not be as fast as them, but you'll definitely look the part.
A bit of advice though: if there's lifeguards, don't go completely motionless for more than 10 or 15 seconds, they automatically think spinal victim or passive drowning and that may turn into an embarassing situation for ya.
Just stay positive it'll come to ya :)
Absolutely, I find most of the time when you're worried about what someone else will think they aren't even paying attention to you.
If your beach is anything like the ones I've been to then you'll have plenty of other people around. No one is going to notice you trying to perfect your stroke. Even things like floating are normal for people that are on the beach (think snorkeling).
Any time that you are spending improving your technique is improvement, and at a certain point your form will start looking just like a competitive swimmer that has been swimming all their life. You may not be as fast as them, but you'll definitely look the part.
A bit of advice though: if there's lifeguards, don't go completely motionless for more than 10 or 15 seconds, they automatically think spinal victim or passive drowning and that may turn into an embarassing situation for ya.
Just stay positive it'll come to ya :)
