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Searching and Reaching

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WHAT ARE YOU SEARCHING FOR? Lately,  I’ve been searching youtube videos on how to improve my swimming form,  so I can become a better, faster swimmer. In my quest for this endeavor,  I invested in getting some professional help and actually paid for a swim lesson.   After all, it has been some time since I had any formal coaching (my swim class in college) and   I wanted to be sure my form was effective, especially if I wanted to increase my speed.   My experience in endurance from running enables me to swim for hours, but was I really fast?  My coach was the sports club director here in Koolina  and  a former triathlete himself.   After he’d seen me swim out and back at the lagoon, he immediately identified my problem.    I was not following through long enough in my stroke, or I was selling myself short so to speak.   In order to remedy this, he went through some drills and told me that I had to reach out ...