I am indeed not good at swimming. Tonight was my first swim practice.... So, as a kid I took swim lessons, and learned all the strokes. Then apparently at some point early on I made the decision that breast stroke was good enough for me. So I am decent at that, I can do somersaults backwards and forwards, but when they told me to kick... Well it all went downhill from there.
My mom and I got pulled into the "special" section of the pool to work on technique. (Alone with two others... apparently everyone else somehow have much better technique). We mostly worked on kicking. We all definitly improved our technique by the end a lot. I could feel that I was kicking better, but it is very disheartening when you're kicking and kicking and kicking, then look around, and have barely gone anywhere. I found out that if i kick really really hard, I go somewhere, but if i just kick medium, or even pretty hard, I go nowhere. There is somehow nothing in between somewhere and nowhere. But at least by the end of the hour, I had good kicking technique. Maybe next time I will even get to use my arms!
Looking forward to the long wet road head of me.
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