Decided to go back to square one, and the swimming pool, to do some drills from the Total Immersion Swimming book. Unfortunately my skin and I disagreed about the chlorine in the pool after the second pool visit, and I'm sitting here drinking monumental amounts of cranberry juice (and missing some nice 4th of July fireworks since I'm not feeling well) as I write this.
Even from the two sessions I feel like I'm starting to learn how to swim and balance better, but I need at least a couple more hours of drilling to get it down to be able to use it without thinking about it so hard (because I will have other things to worry about in open water than just stroke mechanics!) Since I can't keep swimming in chlorine, I'm going to have to hope for really calm conditions when I practice drills at Corona Del Mar (inconvenient since I cannot review the drills pages after a couple of laps) and also for the lack of walls indicating how long I've gone. So my best bet, really, is to either swim really close to shore, or in between buoys.
The drills break down when each body movement is supposed to occur, and reinforces it with repetition. I like this much better than me just going "DAAAAA!" and spinning my gears really fast and tiring myself out in a couple of minutes. Also it appears my head has been WAAAY to high up in the water. I'm actually supposed to be sinking that sucker in and hiding it by tucking it a bit, leaning on my lungs or "buoy" so that naturally my hip raises and I'm "swimming downhill".
Looks like it's Corona Del Mar and some drill work (about half an hour) plus maybe a small inside lap for me tomorrow!
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