Originally Posted by
Squall
I know I rarely post anything here, am more of a lurker, but I thought I should probably share this, I've been taking weekly swimming lessons since early January. Despite the timing this wasn't a new year resolution thing, was just how things worked out. I couldn't swim at all but had no fear of the water, way back in the day when I went on holiday with the parents I'd happily walk out into the sea until I was almost neck deep, seems stupid now but when you are a kid you feel almost indestructible right? So why did I never learn? Well never could find the incentive and my friends were more into gaming than going to the pool so I never saw the point. Fast forward a few decades and I find this community which I almost instantly fell in love with, and that's when I realised, if I'm to at least try swimming like a mer, I need to be able to swim as a human. So that's how I ended up taking these lessons, and how are they going? Rather well to be honest. I'm at the point where I do better without a float as I find it gets in the way. I'm definitely the fastest of the group and can do the entire length of the beginners pool (13 meters) on one breath. Began backstroke without floats at the end of the last lesson and again outpaced everyone else. However there is one thing I do need to work on, and it is a big one, breathing. Really having trouble synchronising everything when swimming face down, I get what I have to do, it's just doing it without becoming a unsynchronised mess. Pretty sure this is one of those things I'll suddenly get and everything will click into place. So am I liking being in the water, hell yeah, for now I want to get good enough to go goof about in the deep end of the main pool. Will I end up confident enough to try a mer tail, who knows, time will tell I guess. But for now, I probably wouldn't be at this point if I hadn't found this wonderful community.
*returns to lurking in the murky depths*
