Re: swimming freestyle with fusion

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I just wanted to say THANK YOU!!! I have been so sad about not being able to

swim.. and like one of you said.. watching people swim at the pool longing I

could do that too. I remember swimming when I was a little girl and I used to

spend hours at the pool just swimming laps.

I have tried swimming, but it just feels weird since you're either flat on your

face or straight up in the water. I want to try to this rotating the whole body

thing. Now I just have to find a time when no one is at the pool so I don't feel

totally silly practicing to do this....hee hee.

Ramona

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> > Just wanted to chime in for a second on the swimming issue. Cheryl, you

are so correct when you mentioned that swimming - at least the freestyle stroke

that most use - requires the torso to turn as one. My 10 year old is taking

swimming lessons and one of the exercises his instructor was having him do was

to swim on one side with the lower arm extended straight up along side his head

with his face and torso angled up, he then had to rotate his entire body over -

stomach into the water - and then face up with the opposing arm straight along

side his head with his face and torso angled up towards the ceiling of the pool

area. He was being taught to move his entire body with the swimming motion. I

had never seen that teaching technique before and she explained he had bad

habits that would hurt his shoulders in the long run.

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> > Jeanne

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