Swimming lesson

Right now this is basically my favorite hour of the week...

It's interesting, there's something very stimulating about swimming, but in a calming way. I have had a slightly overstimulating week--swimming is at once insanely stimulating and very, very tranquility-inducing in a way that is rather foreign to me! Good for the soul...

We worked really almost entirely on breaststroke, various drills on the pull that I think had a quite beneficial effect by the end. I. videotaped me on her camera and we took a look, got to keep the elbows high and really let the hands do the work and go vertical--a lot of little sculling drills with paddles, etc. etc. And we did practice doing some of those (can't remember the name now) pulloffs, where you come off the wall underwater.

A bit of back at the end, because I really need to figure out some form stuff, only we ran out of time--but actually it's related to the breaststroke thing, I need to keep the elbows high and let the hands drop down [ED. No--come up! This is always confusing because I. demonstrates it standing up and I don't end up quite translating it plausibly underwater!] perpendicular, I am basically not really at all doing that last part of the stroke where you push down.

Interesting, illuminating, enjoyable. Swimming has the same aspect yoga does (only I like swimming so much more than yoga because it is in water and also you move forward), of how you could do it four or five times a week for ten years and you would still be learning something new about how to do it better...