...two nights ago, I learned the butterfly stroke. I'm completely inefficient and look absolutely like I'm drowning while I do it, but at least I learned it. Sucks, though, that I finally have my freestyle down to something that at least resembles elegance when I get hit with this. :D ( Read more... )

so I dreamt that I was in one of the tunnels (likely the holland because it's more crowded and smaller) and our car had been stopped for a while. After a while, I noticed that there was water very quickly rising with dead bodies floating on it. My first thought was, "thank god I now know how to swim!" and I got out of the car and swam, and swam... ( Read more... )

So in roughly 12 sessions or so, I went from panicking whenever my face went underwater to completing drills, learning how to sprint and being timed. The pool in our building is short (13 yards?), but I was timed for the first time today: ~26 yards in 25 seconds (and I didn't know how to turn, so that's counting approaching the wall, shouting to ( Read more... )

so since agi forbade me to learn how to sail until I learn how to swim, I've been learning how to swim. I'm picking it up pretty quickly (had maybe 10 sessions or so), and I can do freestyle pretty efficiently. Right now, I'm working on improving the speed and technique of my stroke, and playing around with other types of strokes to work on the ( Read more... )