1st successful swimming

Today was my 1st swim that i managed to take breath without holding on to the swimming board. Although it was not perfect, i was sure happy like hell. This is one of my wishes for this year, and after practicing for almost half a year, i finally able to swim freestyle; of course still with the aid of feet paddler. Despite the fact that it is still far from a perfect swimming technique & without using any swimming aid, i felt that it was truly a big progress for me.

Thanx to my gf for her help in teaching me and giving few tips during my entire practise.

Swimming at putrajaya

I went off for a swimming practise at putrajya public pool on saturday night. That was after a long break. The pool was not that full, resonably because it was the same time when the final football match between kelantan & jdt. Although i was not a die hard fan of a footballer, Kelantan won 1 nill, yeay!

I guess my technique wasn't that much improve or maybe didn't improve at all. I still cannot swim without the aid of my buoy and paddlers. My gf commented that i cannot surface out my face from the water mainly because my feet didn't kick hard enough. I tried not to use the board, and even with the help of paddlers, i still failed to raise up my face which in the end, i gulped in water durong breathing attempts.

Looks like it wont be that close to swimming at all this year :-(

Swimming lesson dying

the last time i went for swimming was at putrajaya, and i think it was about amonth ago which was on the same day that i'd my paragliding lesson. Perhaps, it's almost a month. I wad still struggling to turn my face perfectly so i should be able to catch my breathe while paddling. The fact that i need to use the feet paddler and swimming buoy quite worry me and abviously annoying. It shows that i'm a slow learner. Well, perhaps thats is the real thing that bugs my mind and psychollogically turns me down.

Mmmm, needs to say no for a failure even if i need to go through years of practicing.

Swimming lesson continued

Faridil had texted me on the night before saying that the whether condition farecast was not good. The wind speed has increased to more than 20km/h so this could mean hazardous during learning lesson, it could be i could not learn anything or i could injure myself while putting up the wing in high speed wind condition. So, he suggested that the class is canceled and postponed it to the following weekend. Well, i guest it was a blessing in disguise cause i started to feel i was not in good shape of doing something extreme to my body. So as to replace the vacant schedule, i go on with something more subtle. i went for a swimm at bukit jalil aquatic stadium with my gf. It's time to brush up my free-style swimming lesson. We went off for the last shift which was from 6:30pm to 9pm, although we arrived a little bit late. My gf become my current unofficial swimming instructor with zero fee lessons, cause i have no plan until now to go on with a paid real instructor. so, i showed my swimming technique to her and i think i had some few tips to improve my swimming. Currently, i have a problem of catching my breath while hand paddling. According to my gf, it was due to my poor kicking which resulted in my body not able to surface up. Well, i guess those of the new things that i shall occupy my swimming time in this coming weekss. Push and kick harder so that face will emerge from the water surface!

3 nights in a row at Bukit Jalil

Last night completed my 3-night-swimming-practice. Honestly i rarely make this kind of commitment especially when it comes to swimming, however because of me realising that i have progressed remarkably within the last few weeks, i consider this as a breakthrough. Last night, i did the same thing of paddling with my hands and constantly kicking my legs. Although my face was still under the water surface while padding and making me not able to breathe, i noticed that my entire body afloat was reasonably moving stably, as oppose to the last practice where it was wobbly. Another thing which i think it was an improvement was, when i paddled using my left hand, i felt that i was more confident. I always make the bars at the bottom of the swimming pool as my mark to make note on my progress. So until now, i was able to reach 2 bars by paddling my hands and obviously holding my breath underwater. Well, i could not wait to learn on how to surface my face out of water and catch the air. Until now, just keep on practicing. I got to stop, cause i have a meeting to chair.

New year with new goals in mind

I admit that i haven't got any reasonable excuse to explain why i have lost touch of my blog. Well, i don't to blabber wasting my time justifying myself why i'm so lazy. the fact that my blog becomes irresponsibly poor, well in fact with no post at all for the past 5 months is just & inexcusable & un-acceptable. The point is now, i wanna start it back. Making myself of returning to my old habits of jotting down my thoughts is something that i think is good, at least to my mental therapy. There were so many things have happened and yess i wont blab about them. If i think i have ample time to scribble it down, then good for you. In this particular posting, i just wanna to share one of my personal goals this year which is freestyle swimming and paragliding. As of now, i'm so into thinking of my swimming lessons. Honestly speaking, i cam say to my self that i have progressed remarkably. I started i think almost one month ago at bukit jalil pool, never had in mind that i would progress quite well like now. i only set a mildly goal that i want to be able to freestyle swim at least this year, if not the worst i can make myself move forward just by kicking. The last memory i had on swimming lesson was in 2006, where i failed to swim. I know the theory but when i dipped myself into the water, things were not as what are learnt. From thereon, it become sort of a nightmare & i'm phobia of starting another freestyle swimming lesson. Well thinks had changed now, thanx to my gf for encouraging me to go to a pool and start over again. Now, i am able to kick forward & moving afloat at the water surface. and i just started practicing using both of my hands slowly paddling the water. It was still not really in orderly fashion but i started to get the hang of it. Couldn't wait to update another posting on my progress.