Searching and Reaching
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 ...