Hello! My name is Katherine Montero and today I'm going
to talk about the experience of learning how to swim at 26 years old
and
I think this is the way to rein vindicate myself and tell you I closed some
chapters and one of those chapters is having learned to swim. The
link will be over here because I want to learn how to use the cards up here
or in the description box, I'll leave the video
where I was talking about the experience I had with an argentinean at the Campus
Party Iberoamérica, which happened at El Salvador on 2008. At the end of that
post written on 2008, I made myself the promise to learn how to swim. Thing that
took me 8 years to fulfill! But finally, I could do it. Everything comes from
an apparent injury. I don't know if I was injured or my knee was
overloaded when I was training track and field as a discipline, so
I stopped practicing it and I started to look for sports that didn't
had impact on my knees. Probably you already know how I got into yoga.
But this is also how I got into swimming. My university
was offering free courses to university students
and I though: "if I don't do it now, I'll do it never! Just right now
I need to practice no-impact sports and what better choice
than to learn how to swim, that is also a promise I had made to myself
since 2008!" And is until now, well, not now, but in 2016
that I could finally fulfil it. The first days they help you
with the bubble making, just so you know how is it to
breathe, well, not breathe, but coordinate
your breathing so you can breathe only when your head is out
of the water, then, to condition your body when is underwater to
let the bubbles out, that is what they teach you first.
Then, you start with the kicks and then, to take the fear away from you
of what happens in the bottom of the pool, you learn how to jump to touch the
bottom and come back. You realise that, sometimes, even if you don't want to
come back, the pushing force, which is the one you know by the Archimedes' Law, is the
same force that brings you back, so, there is no way in which you,
well, there is a way, but if you are a normal person, normal like,
on that time, I was weighting more than 89k. So, if you're a normal person there is no
way you can stay at the bottom of the pool forever. If you happen to carry dumbbells and
stuff, well, that would be a problem! But, normally, when you go down, the
pushing force will bring you up. So, there is no chance for you to
drown, unless you happen to swallow water. That is one of the things I learned at
the second day of swimming. By the third, they started to say you
need to push yourself from the wall with your legs and do an arrow with your arms and
such. When you notice that
your body actually floats in water,
you start to gain confidence and finally, after... at the second
week, I was swimming already, just having two
weekly classes, so, by the fourth or fifth class, I was already trying to
swim the best I could.
And after the course, I think it lasted one or two months.
After the course, I continued attending to the pool by inertia.
After learning how to swim, noticing they only taught me how to swim freestyle
I tried swimming the entire pool. Because they only teach you
how to swim like, survive and float, but if you want to keep swimming
long distances, improve your breathing technique, the olympic spin,
the other three strokes, those are not included in the free course. I guess that
if you want to join the University team later
they might teach you all those things later but that course is pretty basic
its goal is, literally, please, don't die at the pool.
But, as I'm very curious and I like to know everything deep
I started swimming on a rail until the other side and truth is
the first sessions I stopped like four times before reaching to the other side, like
really, but every day, I admired the fact that
just two months ago, I was scared of swimming, just two months ago, I was scared of get in the water
just two months ago, I couldn't swim at all and now, at least, I could swim 5 meters in a row
and the next day they were 10 meters, and finally, a day
I could finish the entire rail of the olympic pool, which are
50 meters. It felt like *aaaah* (angel's chorus) but, I ended up super tired and
after keep swimming...
I accomplished to end the entire rail, touch the wall, turn around, not the
olympic spin yet, just normal touch, and come back to my starting point to sum up 100 meters. It took me
like, I don't know, 10 minutes, but the idea is I was already doing it
constantly. That was when I noticed that you can really learn
new things at 26. It's never late to fulfill
your promises, an old dog can really learn new tricks.
And truth is, I don't know, I loved it so much because I knew I was doing something
physical, I was practicing a sport, I was doing something good for my body but
at the same time, the waves relaxed me, so, swimming was
well, is an activity that really fulfilled me and I thank the Argentinean
who invited me because, at the end of the talk I had with her
she told me: "go ahead! I invite you to learn how to swim" I was 18 at the moment,
"go ahead! I invite you to learn how to swim, I learn until I was 30 and until
I learned, I knew what was I missing" and
I mean, I want to thank you. I don't know your name, and to be honest, I don't remember your face, either
but if this video ever reaches the Argentinean who someday came to
El Salvador to Campus Party Iberoamérica and that same Argentinean recommended to a brunette little lady to
learn how to swim because she notice the little lady felt intimidate to see how an Argentinean and a Spanish were
racing at the pool, if you ever see this video, I want you to know that
I finally learned how to swim and how right you were! I had no idea what
was I missing until I learn how to swim, too! Thank you so much Argentinean and thank YOU
for watching this video. So, this is the new beginning of 2019 where I start to
tell you about the chapters that I've been closing lately. I fulfilled that promise,
it took me eight years, but I did it and there is a second... no, this is the
second part, there is a third and a forth part but I'm trying to leave some
videos for the future because I don't want to make such long
videos. I want them to be as short as possible
And that's it.
Ciao!
What a stress... what a stress! what a stress!
Ready? 1, 2, 3, *clap*... 1, 2, 3, *CLAP!* now it is!
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