Just learn how to swim this lately, starting from the basic which is breast stroke, take me quite awhile to adapt to it. Barely can finish a lap

First stroke I learned was freestyle. And I don't think I swam a lap when I learned swimming. Well I was 4 that time lol

I don't think you will. You can always do a relaxed Butterfly. It works.

I think leaning butterfly with fins is much easier. I went 5 times into the pool and watched other people doing it, also looked up youtube.

With fins? That would be very fast. I never tried that coz I don't have fins anyway..hahahaha..I do a wave motion-like butterfly which is not that fast and not extremely slow. Too slow and you'll sink, too fast and you'll tired after 25m. My entrance kick is harder to initiate the wave. Arm entrance is relaxed and just enough to stay on the surface. Dive the head a bit and glide a bit. Exit kick is minimal to conserve energy. I could do a few laps this way.

Yeah - fast but need lil more energy to kick.

Butterfly can even do 3 kick - 1 pull up if your upper body not so much strength.

Or do it slow like what you said - big kick, little kick, then come up

I never liked 3 kicks. Even if 2 kicks also can be fast. Actually, you don't really need that much upper body strength. I did a relaxed one and it still would bring my head up with minimal leg assist. Try it, try to use your hip to thrust up and down instead of relying on your knee.

butterfly is more of timing

I'm just starting butterfly - now can only do about 400m, then k o already. Will keep on adding 100m every week.

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Added on March 20, 2009, 2:35 pmI guess all starting also like that - break stroke when i first learn a few years ago boleh mati. Then freestyle's turn. Now can swim both strokes over 1km without tiring

This post has been edited by casey83: Mar 20 2009, 02:35 PM

Same here...hahaha...breastroke which can kill you even after doing 1 or 2 laps. Then freestyle. After that, I swim daily around 2km before I switched to butterfly..

need to ask something....is there any swimming club in KL that train and guide kids for competitive swimming?....assuming the kid is about 9 y.o. At present the kid school doesnt have any such club, let alone competition or training..........

thanks in advance.

no matter how I try I cant seem to float...and the lack of a trainer is indeed very frustrating...

its embarassing la to swim liddat...feel like playing with water onli... >.<

online swimming guides dont help out at all...banyak teori

You remember the theory, try to apply it.

I've found this guy quite good in coaching through video

Float ? Just lie on your back . Ta da!!...

benzene: the videos are no longer avaialble.

I sink >.<

and my neck will hurt like hell

I'm not good swimmer but i swim quite often with not proper breaststroke. I wanted to know, is swim can have a flat stomach??? And how to get a 2 side line which can have a sexy body look?????

And what is operation hour for 3k and also KJ sport complex?

I you wanna know if any part of your body were used in your swimming, just touch them. If it is warm even in the cold water, then the muscle groups there succumbed to workouts. If cold = nothing. I swam all styles, but find that swimming alone can't really help you in getting a flat stomach. Abdominals are divided into upper, lower abdominals, intercostals (spelling) and obelique (spelling). All of these has different sets of exercises to tone them. 2 side lines? Try to hold a long stick, legs shoulder apart and twist your body on the waist. Maintain your vision in front. Only swing your body using waist. During each swing, tense your stomach and at the end of the swing, press hard and then release, not fully, but still tensed. In time, you'll have slim waist.

Smallbug! when are we swimming again? What happened to Sky and Axley?

How??? Blur, dont understand ....