Swimming Tips anyone?

are you a moderator? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make it that duplicate but I geuss the titles are the same...what do you do when there's two of the same interests in different categories??

Sorry, no I am not a moderator (any more than all of us are here). I did suspect that it was an error. I didn't mean to call you out, merely to warn others that it will probably be deleted as a duplicate.

I suppose the only answer, if you want to post under two different interests is to make the discussions significantly different. I feel that the tags are more powerful than 'interest' groups, anyway. If you tag your discussions appropriately, they should show up whenever anyone searches for those words.

Ok great question! What you'll need to work on is swimming *efficiently*. I don't know what your level of skill is but essentially the difference between a really fast swimmer and an average swimmer is that the fast swimmer uses their entire body as leverage to swim instead of just his arms and legs...Did you watch any of the olympic swimmers? If you did then for example when they're swimming freestyle you can see that their hands and forearms more or less stay in one place in the water and they rotate their bodies around it and thus move through the water quickly. That's why swimmers have HUGE backs and really skinny arms! haha Anyway, a drill you can do to improve your efficiency is to work on taking less and less strokes per lap in the pool. Like do a lap where you gliiiide in between each stroke and then a normal lap...Alternate a few like this and after a while you'll notice a "lengthening" in your strokes. Another drill you can do is to swim with closed fists...this emphasizes the use of your forearm as a paddle in the water instead of you just using your hand... Another good general drill to improve your skill in the water are the various sculling drills. These are drills where you literally JUST use your forearms to propel you in the water. You move them in and out in the water and learn to "feel" the propulsion... A lot of these things are better "seen" than explained so if you know a competitive swimmer who can show you then tell them these drills and I'm sure they'll be able to demonstrate quite well. Start slow with these and just be patient. The speed will come ;)

Hmm, thats great that you want to teach her and even better that she wants to be with her dad in the pool! If the trainer is being THAT inflexible then my first advice to you is to get a new trainer that will be a lil more lenient about these things. My guess is the trainer doesn't want her getting too attached to her dad in the pool or he just wants to keep the teaching to himself...I strongly advise having a trainer teach your daughter though. Maybe while she's still floating and paddling around and its fun her father can teach her but to make significant progress she'll need someone who can literally tell her what to do. (its normal that a child will listen to their trainer more than a parent...) Maybe if she was in a group class she would enjoy it more and be less concerned with having her dad around.. As far as her father teaching her he can just focus on her coordination in the water and slowly bring in the different strokes after she is comfortable with just floating and having her head in the water...My swimming school focuses on teaching kids at a very young age and the general progression is the following: - Entering the water safely - Submerge and blow nose bubbles - Assisted front - back float - Front Glide (streamline unassisted) - Flutter kick on board - Kicking on back assisted - Dog Paddle - Frog Paddle etc.etc. I'm not entirely sure what your daughter's level is but maybe if you give me some more detail of where she's at I can tell you more from there :) I really hope this helps you!