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Swimming·/u/GoldHero101·4 months ago
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Howdy y'all! Had my next swimming lesson today, and it had its cool moments! Jumping in the pool for the first time was a very unique sensation (admittedly with a flotation belt, but it still counts!), and the deep end... well, we'll get there. What we primarily focused on was treading, which is what I am having a lot of trouble with. The basic motions, in theory, make a lot of sense to me. However, putting it into practice was... much more difficult. Whenever I wasn't holding onto the wall, it felt like I was falling deeper into the water and I started to panic a little, my treading failing with it. Fortunately, I switched to my back before I sank, but it was still a bit nerve wracking. The hand-eye coordination of it all is tough, not to mention the fact that the deep end was new to me and... honestly a little scary with being 2m deep. I know in theory I should be fine in water, but... I have my doubts and maybe a bit of trauma from swimming lessons I had around 1 and a halfish decades ago now.…

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