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.
For the most part, I'm too busy getting my own yards in to worry what others are doing, although I notice the really fast swimmers (due to a touch of envy!). One day, though, a swim instructor was working with a guy who was using a kickboard. The instructor was giving him all kinds of tips but since I was swimming I caught very little of what he was saying and assumed that the guy with the kickboard was a competitive swimmer just practicing his kick. Later, I was talking to the swim instructor who told me that the guy was just learning to swim. I would never have guessed it based on how fast he was kicking. Anyway, no worries about what others say. Some of them might be too busy being self-conscious also! :)
For the most part, I'm too busy getting my own yards in to worry what others are doing, although I notice the really fast swimmers (due to a touch of envy!). One day, though, a swim instructor was working with a guy who was using a kickboard. The instructor was giving him all kinds of tips but since I was swimming I caught very little of what he was saying and assumed that the guy with the kickboard was a competitive swimmer just practicing his kick. Later, I was talking to the swim instructor who told me that the guy was just learning to swim. I would never have guessed it based on how fast he was kicking. Anyway, no worries about what others say. Some of them might be too busy being self-conscious also! :)
