I have been swimming every day, about 3km a day, and there's a swim test coming up for 4km.. The trick is to maintain some steady state, even though it is in the sea and it is a little choppy. I have only just looked for videos to see if I can improve my technique; so far I have been going on my childhood training, and exploring what feels good. Then I came across "total immersion swimming" which looks quite bizarre to me, since it involves a few things like maintaining the catch for longer. I have been playing around with more rotation and glad to get that affirmed, while I shall be re-adopting the open hand to catch more water, which I let go of more recently.
How is this related to what is going on at the Next Edge collective, or on the net generally? Well, it is to do with knowledge, and there is a hell of a lot out there, and anyone can just look it up and effectively train themselves. This seems to support the auto-didact. The problem is, after too long, i find there are constrasting techniques, alternative opinions, and so on. So, how can I determine which will work for me? I think this is a problem we face a lot, especially when we face problems that not only face oneself, but all of us collectively. That is, how can I determine what will work for us?
This is not an academic question. I am not interested in swim technique because it is my job, or because i am an observer -- I may even be attempting the swim to the next town east which means a round trip of 10km. One hundred 100m. That's a lot of strokes, and I count each one -- it's the only way I can get a reasonably accurate evaluation of distance. The only reason I can do this is because of technique, not force of will. And if I can improve my technique further, then this 10km will be more a pleasure than a slog. One way is to adopt techniques that feel good to me, that seem to work, and another is to find a source who has integrated it well and then helps me personally. I don't have the liberty to find such a master, so on this side of the rely on myself, my subjective sensation and the objective measure of a time.
Similarly, we face major problems, as humanity. It is not an academic discussion we are having, even if appears to be in the same mode, of words, writing and reading. I am going to put those techniques I saw to test -- what is the equivalent of the models we pass before one another's eyes so often? What can we test? Most people think it is about getting along, being smoother with one another, feeling good about sharing, etc. Of course this is nice, this is important, but really, we want to have an external measure of whether it works -- the timer for swimming, the ease by which I complete the 10km swim. What are the equivalents in the real world to our chat/training/techniques/links?
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