elgoog
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In swim trunks alone, I'm pretty floaty and it was a huge effort to try and get even 1-2ft below the surface. My instructor let me wear a weight belt and that made an enormous difference.
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Did you try to get only half of lungs full ?In swim trunks alone, I'm pretty floaty and it was a huge effort to try and get even 1-2ft below the surface. My instructor let me wear a weight belt and that made an enormous difference.
Yes, this was even after a big exhale.Did you try to get only half of lungs full ? I get negative with 3/4 of lungs full roughly.
I have the opposite problem: during front crawl if I exhale too much I will be head down.Yes, this was even after a big exhale.
We spent some time trying to figure out how I could comfortably stay under water, not just for the breath hold swim, but because we were going to spend a couple of hours doing the fin kicks in the pool and you have to be submerged for this to really get anything useful out of it. Once the weight belt thing worked out, all the kick practice was happening almost exactly midwater in a 10ft pool.
You won’t be stopped from taking the class unless the instructor thinks you are unsafe. If you don’t complete all the requirements but the instructor thinks you can within 6 months you get a provisional. You have to complete the missed requirements with that instructor or some other instructor they designate within 6 months.Do you know what happens if I fail the swim test, do I still get to do the rest of the training (not that I plan to fail it but I would like to know), and I get a chance later to do the swim test ? Or does it prevent from doing the class at all ?
Thanks I tried today and I can’t believe how much difference it makes to be close to the bottom. Don’t know why but I was able to do 10m by just moving closer to the bottomNot really that much. If your are preparing wrong, you will have to relearn it, so the preparation would be pointless. The one thing that is good to practice is just maintaining a stable and quiet position in the water. In the shallows, get yourself close to the bottom and just hang there. No ascending or descending, no flailing of arms/legs, etc, etc. and just practice maintaining that stable quite position.
You won’t be stopped from taking the class unless the instructor thinks you are unsafe. If you don’t complete all the requirements but the instructor thinks you can within 6 months you get a provisional. You have to complete the missed requirements with that instructor or some other instructor they designate within 6 months.
If you are clearly not capable of competing the requirements in 6 months then you fail. For example, say you take a doubles course and can’t reach your valves. Performing a bad and or flaky valve drill would probably get you a provisional. Not being able to ever start it gets you a failure.
Thanks I tried today and I can’t believe how much difference it makes to be close to the bottom. Don’t know why but I was able to do 10m by just moving closer to the bottom
That’s great to hear, not too much pressure then
Next week in Vobster.It may sound obvious, but when it comes to swimming without fins, your arms are providing about 80% of the forward thrust. If you thrash your legs about, those big muscles are demanding a lot of oxygen for not much pay back. This is particularly evident when breath-hold swimming underwater.
When / where are you doing your fundies? Hopefully you'll do a post course report as it'd be interesting to here about.
Next week in Vobster.
Yea, I watched a few vids and read: for underwater swimming it seems to be about using your CO2 limit the most efficiently.
I think my problem is that my technique is probably wrong because I don’t glide like this guy: I generate a lot less power.