Do you know the tingly feeling of being on the verge of a new hobby?

[andi_h@chaos.social]

@blinry in my thirties I became a father and I can’t just drop the kids in the pool and come back later. That would be pretty irresponsible.
That’s when I started swimming again. Nowadays we have a family memberships in DLRG which allows me to swim when my kids have their training.
I really enjoy it because I can swim pretty long without getting too exhausted.
Last year we participated in a 24h swimming contest where you have 24h to swim as much as you can. Last year i did 5km. This year 10.

[blinry@chaos.social]

@Andi_H Oh yea, that was a big source of shame for myself too in my childhood! :S I'd almost forgotten.

[andi_h@chaos.social]

@blinry only front crawling exhausts me. After 50m I am totally out of breath .

So I am eager for any cool hints you share on technique.

[blinry@chaos.social]

@Andi_H Wow, 24 hours of swimming… that's very inspiring! Glad you found a way to swim again!

[gustavinobevilacqua@mastodon.cisti.org]

@blinry

I don't remember, since before the Apollo program I dive with open eyes without any problem.
There is always a lot of interesting things a few meters under the surface of the sea!

[uint8_t@chaos.social]

@blinry have you considered a snorkel? it decouples the ability of breathing from the sensation of having your head submerged. I have one snorkel that is positioned in the middle of my forehead instead of sideways and can be used for freestyle swimming

[xssfox@cloudisland.nz]

@blinry you can get nose clip thingies to stop water going into your nose. I don't have this reaction at all so I'm no help but my first thought is, have you tried breathing out through your nose while swimming, it might avoid some of the discomfort by ensuring that water isn't even able to enter?

[xssfox@cloudisland.nz]

@blinry (also congrats on the swimming)

[fastness@mastodon.social]

@blinry I found I had to exhale continuously to manage it, initially through the nose but, oddly, eventually I found I could also exhale through the mouth and somehow my lizard brain felt that was ok? It only worked for breaststroke though, I never managed to do it consistently for crawl

[jigmedatse@social.openpsychology.net]

@blinry@chaos.social That 100 m short of a mile... odd that. I have no idea how far I could swim in a single session. Used to be able to do similar distances.

[jigmedatse@social.openpsychology.net]

@blinry@chaos.social It was a long time ago, and I had similar experience with not really being able to do a "good enough" job. It sort of ended up being a bit of a special interest, I think once I had some people who were wanting to teach finer points of swimming. I don't really remember how I learned though.

[foosel@chaos.social]

@blinry from what my parents tell me, I spent more time under water than above water in the kiddie pool, even long before I could swim. Water for some reason clicked with, diving especially.

I do remember worrying about water entering my nose but figuring out early on that it couldn't do that when blowing bubbles out of my nose. So to this day I push out a tiny amount of air when I go under, stop when my face looks forward or down, but start again when I look up or dive down.

[schrottkatze@social.treehouse.systems]

@blinry im glad that theres a learning method compatible with my particular audhd ^{^}

[andi_h@chaos.social]

@blinry you don’t swim for 24 hours. That’s the time you have to swim as much as possible.

You can always pause to eat, sleep, or whatever.

There are some people who apparently don’t need to do any of those things.

24 Stundenschwimmen - Einzelauswertung

(24h.dlrg-gladbeck.de)

[foosel@chaos.social]

@blinry I also seem to match the water pressure with my lungs. As in, the deeper I go, the more pressure I put towards my nostrils to keep the water out. If that make sense.

I've gone down to 5m for up to 2min in the past. Thoroughly enjoyed that. These days my eardrums aren't as flexible as they used to be and I get ear aches when I go deep too fast, despite constant pressure equalisation.

[blinry@chaos.social]

@foosel That pressure adaption makes a lot of sense! When I was trying my bubble-blowing today, I suspected that this is probably something people pick up by practicing, and which learning resources don't seem to be talking about explicitly…

[blindcoder@toot.berlin]

@blinry I couldn't swim as a kid, and has difficulties learning to swim as a kid.
So my grandpa ( ️ ), who was active in the German Red Cross, got a children's scuba set, put it on me and went to the public swimming pool. Spent days there just being underwater, breathing canned air. After that, I was very much less afraid of water and at least learned to stay afloat.

Only as an adult I learned to "properly" swim.

[moho1@social.troll.academy]

@blinry oh, I had the same issue when trying to learn crawl swimming and never really got around it (but also am not really regularly swimming). Not that much of a problem to explicitly dive (but never managed long times), but more splashing water into the nose / eyes (?) and managing to breath enough to actively swim.

Maybe I should try again to learn this?

[bix@chaos.social]

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Ask a certified trainer what the breathing techniques are.

[zweifeln@chaos.social]

@blinry I'm a certified life guard (well never worked as one but ages ago I made that course to be able t work as one. It would need refreshing to work though.)

I'm a decent swimmer, trying to go once a week.

Getting water up your nose is awful. Always. I hate it.
But it doesn't happen often.
For swimming (in opposition to diving) the key is to constantly breath out, when under water. (And breath in when over water.)

It needs practice. But at some point it becomes "natural".