Thailand is famous for its white beaches and natural scenic spots. Beaches are the center of attraction for Thailand, which brings many tourists to this pristine land. The white sand beaches of Phuket, magnificent beaches of Samui and many virgin beaches tempt you to swim and enjoy the beauty of nature, but if you do not know how to swim you may miss this wonderful opportunity. In simple words we can say that, without swimming your beach holiday is not a complete one.
Swimming is considered as a life skill and there is no age limit to learn this beautiful art. Practically speaking, all human beings are blessed with the talent of swimming. But we realize this unique talent until we swim. God created our world with one third of water, conveying us the importance of swimming for humans. Swimming help us in many ways, besides giving immense pleasure and stress relief, it is a beautiful sport and has a good therapeutic effect. By swimming you can reduce the excessive fat content in your body and stay active.
Learning swimming is not that difficult, you can learn this nature-skill at any stages of your life. Before selecting the schools for swimming, take some beginners research to understand various type of learning methods that are taught in your region. Figure out your swimming requirement such as whether you want to learn it for passion or you are going to take part in competition. This will help you in identifying the proper school and right kind of teaching methods suitable for you.
Traditional methods of swimming have more energy wasting movements and are difficult to master. To overcome the difficulties of traditional methods, American swim coach, Terry Laughlin introduced a new kind of swimming technique called Total immersion technique or TI technique. In this method, the number of strokes is reduced and it follows the principle of ‘less energy – more distance’. Compared to other methods, TI is easy to learn and has fewer movements to master. Irrespective of ages anyone can master this fluent and simple technique in a short span of time. The real secret behind this technique is, it believes in swimming intelligently and takes advantage of body position in water. The TI method is popular worldwide and appreciated for is effective swimming techniques.
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Use the arms to pull the body underwater in swimming. Learn how to swim the freestyle stroke in this free swimming video. Expert: Peter Elizondo Bio: Peter Elizondo is a lifeguard of three years who swam for the junior varsity and varsity teams at Nikki Rowe High School. Filmmaker: Devin Boddie
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What can I do to boost my swimming endurance ?I'm going to be joining the Navy and I need help on my swimming techniques and endurance. What are some strokes that I can do to help me get better at swimming. Also what are some endurance techniques that I can do to get my endurance up?
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Lol, only a week and passionate. Good! Well, since I like to pretend to be a know-it-all, much to the frustration of others here (hey guys!) ill give you other stroke stuff too.
DIVING::When you dive, look down, not out. Don't look down so far so you see between your legs, because it will throw you off balance. Hook your toes around the edge of the block for a better push off, and use your arms to throw you outward. Main thing? Don't do a belly flop.
TURNS:: When doing freestyle, don't breath within two strokes of going into the wall and coming out from it. This is difficult at first, but the more you do it, the better and easier it will come. Flip fast, kick hard, do butterfly kick off the wall and streamline. Streamline your arms should be right at or behind your ears. DON'T LOOK UP!
When doing breast stroke, imagine your arms shooting from a gun, and how fast it is. When you breath, and when you push your arms out, do it really fast. Don't pause in your stroke while breathing, and don't bob your head (Like, looking way up, then looking way down as you go in the water, repeating) that takes way too much energy.
Butterfly turns you almost take off on your back. Throw your arm up and over your head, push HARD. Two hands to the wall, like breast stroke.
Backstroke find your stroke count from the flags, or learn to estimate distance (my technique is estimation, not always accurate, but better for me). When you flip on to your stomach, never stop pulling water with your hands.
BREATHING: Anything in or out of the water will do. I use fins or such and swim wall to wall without breathing more then (1-2) times. Do this alot, or look up meditation breathing excersizes. These work as well. inhale 8, hold 10, exhale 8s
TECHNIQUE:: Some basic techniques are: butterfly arms/breast stroke or vice versa kick, Zipper (drag thumb from stomach to armpit), Tarzan (hehe, keep your head totally out of water while keeping it strait), catch-up (meet hands together while freestyling on strokes), 3-3-3 (butterfly, 3 one arm, 3 other arm, 3 full stroke), deep diving (dive as far as possible on butterfly stokes), deep reach (on backstroke, reach as far as you can to the bottom), etc. I'm sure you know a lot of these.
BUTTERFLY KICK:: Roll. Don't see-saw, which is like belly, chest, belly, chest. Think of a wave, as is the butterfly motion. Roll like a wave from your belly, ribs, chest, neck, head. that kind of thing. do the worm in the water, this will help you. Use your legs, but generate the motion of your legs from your stomach. its hard to explain without visual aid.
I don't watch swimming videos but for inspiration. You may do so, but don't rely on videos to teach you the correct thing. DOING will teach you the right, and videos run the risk of bad technique too (not that michael is bad…teehee) =D
GOOD LUCK!!!
@branodi haha that was funny