Now if only I could swim "right"

[cjsmith]

I have developed a weird style that has arms from, oh, the breaststroke or the butterfly or something, and a scissor-kick from the sidestroke. My head bobs on every stroke; at the high point I breathe, and even at the low point my eyes are usually still out of the water. (That last is very handy for me. I veer if I'm not looking.) I'm bothered by the asymmetry of the scissor-kick, but not enough that I spend time doing it the opposite way.

I have almost completely forgotten how to do the basic crawl. I can flutter-kick, and I am comfortable doing that when I am on a kickboard, but the flutter-kick doesn't go well with what my arms want to do. The arm and head motion of the crawl feels very wrong to me, and besides, it puts water in my ears. I am convinced this is the main purpose of the crawl. :-)

Comments

[dizzdvl.livejournal.com]

I totally do that! And yes I just said totally! My sister tried to teach me the correct kick for breaststroke and it is hard. It's completely different now than when we were kids. But you know the scissor-kick breast stroke thing works. And my legs are not how I swim. I power it out with my arms, which is why I got the flippers.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I seem to swim just as fast doing a flutter-kick while holding on to a kickboard as I do in my weird-ass style without a kickboard at all. Yet in that weird-ass style, my arms get tired. Clearly a flutter-kick generates more power than my scissor-kick!