Insider Tips
What is the biggest danger in the water?
Did you list one of these…
- Depth
- Clarity
- Temperature
- Currents?
While all those elements are factors to understand about the water, it is still not the biggest danger. After all, many people swim in all depths of water with no problem.
People who are blind can swim. One of my competing high school swim teams had an athlete who was blind. One of his teammates had a tennis ball on the end of a stick at each end of the pool. They would tap him on the head when it was time to do a flip turn. It worked perfectly. He was totally safe. Even if he had not gotten tapped on the head he would have been safe swimming. There just may have been a crashing problem.
Panic is the biggest danger. This is because you lose control and are unable to mitigate any of the above list of factors. Knowing how to control panic is the number one rule in swimming.
The number two rule is air should always be easy. In today’s video Cori talks about the elusive side breathing in the front crawl. Here is a quick tip in order to learn proper side breathing you must follow the rules:
- Know how to control panic
- Air must always be easy
- …see you in the video
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