Ahhhhh... At first I thought it was strokes per lap... Mana tau is length instead     
OK now I get a clearer picture of how it should be... Wanted to improve my freestyle as I am not good with it... At least with this guide, I know what I should be improving on 

Thanks you very muchy bro 

At the age of 30, finally took the 1st step today to sign up a swimming lesson in preparation for my PADI Open Water Diving certification.

Never swim before, but not afraid of water. I was told by others that swimming was the most relax activity one can do.

Today my conclusion is, F&%K, freaking exhausting. 
Today just manage to learn how to kick in breaststroke. I was static at the same location for 30minutes I guess before I realize how the kick can generate propulsion and move the body forward.

I recall I got accidentally kick on other ppl legs before. Really feel sorry about that, as I cannot control my direction, a lot of time also lost balance from the board.
I feel like my body has a natural tendency to buoyant. Notice this when the trainer asked me to take a breath and look under the surface to see how he does the kick. Then when I bend down my waist, feel like a force push me upward. Didn't expect that as I recall during my childhood I can easily sit down on the bottom of pool.

"look forward" to 2nd class. 

First of all, congratulations to you! 

As for the buoyancy part of you, it is the same to all the other swimmers. I get the same dead body posture on the surface with my face facing down under water. The only way to push myself down into the water is to exhale some air out and push myself into the water and that is when I am able to stay underwater. Is all about how you control the air in your lungs.

Sadly to say, I have bad air capacity in my lungs. I can't stay underwater for more than 15 seconds 

I mean when we are staying stagnant at a position under water la... Not while we were swimming 

may I know for regular swimmer like you all, do you get yourself a waterproof swim/pool bag?

Is it easy to learn from youtube u think?

Thanks for feedback... but I guess hiring a coach will not be my option for now.

Just want to swim as exercise and learn additional new stroke if possible..

May i know where is this place?

Back from my 2nd class today.
Today learned arm movement and breathing coordination.
I think I am too old already brain cannot coordinate body to do 3 things. I either arm and leg do correctly forgotten to breath, or arm and breath do correctly forgotten to kick.

But I am happy that today I can take away that buoyant noodle, although once in a while still need it. That noodle keep pushing up on my abdomen made me feel like want to vomit near the end of the session (that was what happen during 1st day).

I get myself a kick board from Aeon to do some own training to increase to rate of learning.

Anyone here go to Subang 3K swimming pool or Kelana Jaya swimming pool at weekday after 5:30pm?

Two questions:

1) i have a kick board now ut i do not have a pull buoy. If I want to train my breath and arm coordination, is it must get a pull buoy? can the kick board replace it? Although I feel quite hard to caught the kick board in between the legs due to its slim profile.

2) Can the following casio watch used in  swimming?

Model: WS220-1AV
In manual it does say water resistant 100m. But since there is a lot of jumping and splashing in the pool  I am not sure 100m water resistant is good enough for swimming use or not. I have this as my running watch.

I have visited there last month to check out is there any swimming lesson available. That time not yet available.
I did walk in to have a quick look at the pool, it looks clean, and because as you said, many people thought it is still not yet re-open, very little people that time.

I think it is worth a re-visit for you.
The thing I like about 3K is it is indoor, so rain or no rain also can swim.
I never swim at 3K before btw. But I think I only see one life guard for such a big pool. Maybe they are still hiring crews.

Let me know your feeling after your re-visit. 

I have visited there last month to check out is there any swimming lesson available. That time not yet available.
I did walk in to have a quick look at the pool, it looks clean, and because as you said, many people thought it is still not yet re-open, very little people that time.

I think it is worth a re-visit for you.
The thing I like about 3K is it is indoor, so rain or no rain also can swim.
I never swim at 3K before btw. But I think I only see one life guard for such a big pool. Maybe they are still hiring crews.

Let me know your feeling after your re-visit. 

I did not jump inside and swim so I really do not know whether the water quality and the muddy feeling you complaint last time has been solved already or not.
But I agree that the floor was slippery. When I visited it was still slippery. So I guess they never really take an effort to put anything on the floor. You got to wear a good slipper i guess.

Oh God... I am speechless now 
However, for me, having a swimming academy taking over a public pool is never a good thing... You will only see few lanes opened for public while the rest will be reserved for training like how Bukit Jalil used to be... Even Bukit Jalil have 2 pools, but they will use one quarter of the pools available for training...

speedo biofuse goggles good? seems like new design:
http://www.lazada.com.my/speedo-futura-bio...fe80a96c32aefae

Anyone knows which swimming is better in Putrajaya area? Im a beginner, can swim but still not confident in more than 1.8 meter depth. Im 1.7m height.

Precint 6? How's the depth?
Precint 16? How's the depth?

Marina - This one is good, indoor but slightly expensive (RM5.30 for 2 hours session). Compared to the P6 & P16 is RM2

Actually Marina's swimming pool rate is RM5,30 for 2 hours and 45 minutes session.

Ticket price:

Adult: RM 5.30
Children: RM 3.20

Operation Hours:

Session 1: 09.00 am – 11.45 pm
Session 2: 12.30 pm – 03.15 pm
Session 3: 04.00 pm – 06.45 pm
Session 4: 07.30 pm – 09.45 pm

http://www.marinaputrajaya.com/fac-swimming.php

Can't wait

Hmm not sure if the former name was Pusat Maritim Putrajaya, (i think highly likely)

But based on the infor here.

Only 25 meter

http://www.mykite2u.com/SWIM/Putrajaya%20Pools.pdf

Hmm feel not worth it

Last two week ago sprain my left thigh while doing breast stroke kick, yesterday sprain my right thigh for the same reason.

I am curios do you all who do breast stroke or consider yourself a good breast storke swimmer, happen to have strong thigh and able to kick strongly easily?

I suspect my thigh muscle is not strong enough so every time when the instructor asks me to kick stronger, I tried hard and end up putting a lot of stress on my thigh, then at the end of the lesson got little sprain.

Posture wise my instructor says I am ok although not perfect yet (legs have the habit of occasionally not close together after the kick) so I think is not because of wrong posture.

I tried relax. But couch said my kick does not produce enough propulsion, so I tried harder.

ok try relax next time.