Thursday, August 02, 2007

I have always been unable to really swim, or should I say it take a whole lot of effort to swim even the breathe of the swimming pool, around 20m. The effort it takes feels like running for 2km.
On top of that, I just couldn't manage to master the breathing technique, so that adds to the difficulty.

I remember learning to swim in the army, and the first thing the instructor did was to ask us to hold our breath, and relax, then our body should naturally float. Well.... I sank to the bottom of the pool.

I really thought I was "one of a kind", until now then I found out there is such a thing call negative buoyancy. I am just glad that it is not me not putting effort, but rather it is just a lot harder for people born with negative buoyancy to swim.

posted by Wui-Ping @ 11:53 PM Comments: 0