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.
First off, most of the time, people aren't paying attention to you. They are busy living their own lives and paying attention to themselves. I think you are exaggerating in your mind how much time anyone would actually spend thinking about what you are doing in the first place.
Secondly, when I was coaching full-time, we would occasionally have a kid (13+) who would just be starting to swim. Our program was set up by ability level and we didn't have a beginning group for the older swimmers. I had two or three kids over the years who were gutsy enough to swim with the Blue team (often 7-8 year olds who were just learning their strokes). I would explain to them that they'd have to buck up and be willing to endure 7-8 year old behavior in their lane but that they would learn faster and move up quicker because they could listen better and would have more developed motor skills. The kids that actually took on the challenge learned quickly, moved up and were soon on the Senior team training with the kids their age. I know of at least one who swam in college.
I always had even more admiration for these swimmers as they were willing to be tough and look past their immediate comfort toward their goal. The question for you is: What is more important to you? Looking cool or learning to swim?
First off, most of the time, people aren't paying attention to you. They are busy living their own lives and paying attention to themselves. I think you are exaggerating in your mind how much time anyone would actually spend thinking about what you are doing in the first place.
Secondly, when I was coaching full-time, we would occasionally have a kid (13+) who would just be starting to swim. Our program was set up by ability level and we didn't have a beginning group for the older swimmers. I had two or three kids over the years who were gutsy enough to swim with the Blue team (often 7-8 year olds who were just learning their strokes). I would explain to them that they'd have to buck up and be willing to endure 7-8 year old behavior in their lane but that they would learn faster and move up quicker because they could listen better and would have more developed motor skills. The kids that actually took on the challenge learned quickly, moved up and were soon on the Senior team training with the kids their age. I know of at least one who swam in college.
I always had even more admiration for these swimmers as they were willing to be tough and look past their immediate comfort toward their goal. The question for you is: What is more important to you? Looking cool or learning to swim?
