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20 lengths? 22 lengths? I lost track.
I'm definitely getting better at keeping my hips up and my head down. Another few swims and I'll start focusing on a better kick. I'm also no longer worried about being booted out of the medium-speed lane.
CRAWL STROKE people: I know breathing is done by rotating the head sideways. Do you also do anything to look forward, to see where you're going? Do you instead look only at your distance from the wall or from the lane boundary, so you don't veer? If the latter, is bumping into the end wall a surprise?
I'm definitely getting better at keeping my hips up and my head down. Another few swims and I'll start focusing on a better kick. I'm also no longer worried about being booted out of the medium-speed lane.
CRAWL STROKE people: I know breathing is done by rotating the head sideways. Do you also do anything to look forward, to see where you're going? Do you instead look only at your distance from the wall or from the lane boundary, so you don't veer? If the latter, is bumping into the end wall a surprise?
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Got the goggles. Gotta use 'em.
Thanks for all the info!
Right now I'm still not crawling. I'm doing my Weird Stroke and working on going through the water horizontally. I'd like a more symmetric breaststroke-style kick. After a bit of reading, I know that what I would have (if I made the kick better) really is pretty much a decent breaststroke. But I know I'll work on crawl soon enough, and today on the flutterboard I practiced breathing to the side. (Doesn't work as well on a flutterboard, of course, because the whole body roll isn't really naturally occurring.)