It was been a fair few days since Lesson #8 and I suspect the fact that I haven't posted about it is reflective of my feelings about how my lessons are going. I feel that there has been hardly any progress now since Lesson #6 and this is dampening my enthusiam.
There was a lot of clock watching in the last lesson - I just wanted it to be over even though I missed the first almost 10 minutes. I did have a very hectice work day, got there late and wasn't feeling relaxed all of which Jackie said would have been contirbuting to my having an off day. While I agree that that wouldn't have helped, I can still only swim half way down the pool at best and all my comments in my last post still stand. It hasn't helped that I haven't gotten to the pool in my own time but without any drills to practice I don't know what I would do in my own time. I don't want to keep practising that which isn't working for me.
I really really really don't want to give up so I have taken matters into my own hands and have been researching some alternate swimming instruction styles.
More on that next post.
You are probably expecting too much too soon. It took me a lot longer than 8 weeks. The turning point for me was watching the total immersion freestyle video. I changed over to that method and i could see progress every week.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog :). I'm also learning how to swim (4 weeks into it) and I know how you feel about the frustration! Something as simple as maintaining buoyancy!!! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteJulian - I probably am. I am so glad you mentioned Total Immersion though because that is the alternate swimming instruction style I have turned to too. Must post about it.
ReplyDeleteDave - Thanks and good luck to you too! Would love to hear how you go with it.