[Sportsandrec] Swimming

Sun Mar 1 17:51:53 UTC 2009

Cindy,

You might want to ask more specific questions and tell us some background. 
It sounds like you have little swim experience.  Like you I was not 
encouraged to get involved in a sport.  If I could put something into my 
childhood, I would add more physical activity like dance or judo.  Now I'm 
into working out but not doing a sport.  My most recent cardio activity is 
spinning; got into it once I joined a health club.  I played beep ball as a 
kid and still do and that's the closest i've gotten to a sport.  I had some 
swim instruction  but didn't get too far; it was private lessons.

I think you should try swimming.  Its great exercise.  Do you want to do it 
for your own fitness and recreation or do you wish to make it a sport and 
compete?

If you are learning the basics of swimming, I'd recommend private 
instruction.  Others can share how they learned.  But I think the instructor 
will have to guide you through the movements.
The instructor likely won't have had a blind student, so you'll have to tell 
him/her how to help you.
If you want to try the college class go ahead.  But in a class, you may not 
get the instruction you need.  In a class its taught by demonstration. 
Depending on your vision, this may or may not help you.
Depending on the pace of the class the instructor
may be able  to give individual guidance.  I always took private lessons.  I 
only know the free style stroke well, so would like to try again.
I may not progress, but its worth trying since swimming is a good way to 
exercise and has lots of benefits.
I'm not the most coordinated person so that was a challenge.  Also I wasn't 
able to swim straight.

Good luck.
Ashley

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cindy Garcia" <ccgarcia2005 at yahoo.com>
To: "Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List" 
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Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Swimming

>
> It is good that you bring swimming up because I'm thinking of going in to 
> swiming. I edon't mean for fun. I love the watter, and I have no idea what 
> I'm doing, but I'm hoping that I can learn something from a swim class at 
> my college. If you can anyone, please give me all the tips I can. I was 
> never incouraged to get in to any type  of sport, but now that I know I 
> can do anything, I want to try swimming.
> I just thought I would coment on that. I'm interested in this sport.
> Cindy Garcia
> Music Major
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> email Address: ccgarcia2005 at yahoo.com
> Msn: zacharycindy at hotmail.com
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> --- On Sat, 2/28/09, Joe Shaw <jrs3147 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> From: Joe Shaw <jrs3147 at comcast.net>
>> Subject: [Sportsandrec] Swimming
>> To: "Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List" 
>> <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
>> Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 3:32 PM
>> Ladies and gentlemen,
>> As you know, I do the lift/ spin/ eliptical/ run thing
>> really regularly. Today I decided it was time to go
>> swimming. So after donning my soft black trunks with the
>> palm trees, purr,  I dove in and my oh my! The temp was a
>> far too warm 85 and having no soap, I figured I would get in
>> some laps. I feel that I am a cardio monster as I have told
>> you before as on land I can go for days. The pool kicked my
>> butt. I did fourteen all-out sprints as hard as I could go
>> with nine or ten being freestyle and the other two or three
>> being fly. I was sucking air bigtime and have much work to
>> do. I did more cardio on land after, I just did not yet have
>> the wind for more water and frankly I was getting a little
>> discouraged.
>> My stroke is smooth and fairly graceful, swimming is about
>> the only graceful thing I do, but I felt really heavy. Is
>> this because my body has bulked up more than it used to be?
>> This was a decent initial day and a great learning
>> experience. I have much work to do if I am to defeat my
>> superior opponent.
>> Kelly, tell us about in-water cardio being different than
>> land cardio when you have time please. I had forgotten how
>> different the exercises are.
>> "Poor men wanna be rich" "Rich men want to
>> be king" "And the king ain't satisfied til he
>> rules everything" Springsteen Badlands
>> JSNM
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