Swimming Survival Guide

A survival guide written by swimmers for swimmers! An easy guide to surviving anything from practice to swim meets!

[semiotomatics]

there’s something about the sight of steps leading down into the water. it feels like the ocean telling me to come home

[that-catholic-shinobi]

That means you’re a selkie love

[patron-saint-of-smart-asses-dea]

Mermaids, sirens, and selkies only reblog. Land lubbers GTFO

[swimmingsurvivalguide]

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[swimmingsurvivalguide]

Hey! I'ce never been a fan of going to the gym or exercising at all, but i decided that it's time for me to do something about my body and loose the extra weight i've ways had, so las week i started swimming for an hour from 6:00 am to 7, even thought i really like water i suck at actually swimming, i lack technique, speed and resistance so i wanted to know if you had any tips for beginners or exercises to improve my current state? Thank you!

Hey! I have no idea when this was put in! I’m so sorry! To begin swimming even with lack of ability find a kick board and kick. Kicking is one of the most important things in swimming. Next slowly work on front crawl or freestyle. Finally build your endurance. Start out with and hour 1/2 kicking 1/2 swimming freestyle. Also it’s okay to take breaks!!!!! Don’t push your self too hard that you don’t want to wake up and do it the next day!! Hope this helps! If not direct message me and I can go into more detail!

[swimmingsurvivalguide]

#79 Your butterfly on the last 25

[swimmingsurvivalguide]

I know I haven’t been active very much, but man is college hard! Here’s my college team btw and we kick ass

[sharky-sharks]

Why do you like sharks?

[yofi-deactivated20190418]

he walk

[knightposting-archived]

He cronch

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He roll

[waywardfangir1]

She give high fin. @lilragekitten

[canidteeth]

He gets tummy rubs

[glitterysquidily]

He get nose rub

[the-monochrome-jester]

He beauty

[shatteredwineglasses]

He dance

[ayellowbirds]

She do a triple Lutz

[localgaecryptid]

He slorp

[pineapple-crow-deactivated20250]

This post is blessed

[swimmingsurvivalguide]

#78

 When the coach asks you to demonstrate a drill

[foxgraves]

blue whales are the largest animal ever recorded, like you literally need to be in a helicopter to actually see one in from a perspective with zero distortion. idk i just feel pretty lucky to be alive on earth at the same time as them and they don’t even want to kill me. they just wanna use their toothbrush mouthes to filter the ocean of smol ocean bugs. they have communities and they sing to each other to communicate. work is slow im sorry happy friday whales r so cool

[swimmingsurvivalguide]

If anyone was wondering why a vampire post was just put on here it was by accident! I'll leave it up because now everyone can know I like classical vampires doing modern things....so enjoy

[cat-eel]

I have headcanons about what vampires should be.

[harveykrinkle-deactivated201510]

Pay them in blood to tell us what is at the bottom of the ocean.

[blues4d]

synced solo / ocean loop

[amtrax]

So I was really worried like “I hope they cleaned up this weird mess, this could be unhealthy for the ocean,” but it turns out this IS ANIMATED!???

[madamsugarskull]

Hell no, someone HAD to give up their soul to make this- just like the guy who made the realistic animated honey video I saw a while back.

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[nocturnaldhampir]

[swimmingsurvivalguide]

Here's to my final year on my swim team. I'm leaving to swim for College of Idaho in August. So, here I am with Olympic swimmer Elizabeth Beisel

[parskis]

i swear to god, men raising their voice is the most terrifying thing in the whole world. they dont understand, like its an immediate panic response, game over

[cl4yton-deactivated20180207]

I actually had no idea women found this so scary

[periwinklepromise]

my downstairs neighbors fight on a regular basis, and every time he starts yelling i’m a little afraid he’s going to kill her. i have no reason to think this except that he is a man and he is angry

[thewonderfulthingaboutfish]

My math teacher has a loud voice and a temper and he scares the living shit out of me almost everyday. He’s made me and other kids cry more than once and he and his teacher buddies make a joke out of terrifying students.

[diamondsamura1-deactivated20220]

this was women in general? i knew my gf didn’t like it but I was unaware if this affected most women

[survivor-surviving]

Yes, it does

[pandora-ness]

As a woman, I had no idea it effected other women like this. I was too afraid to even talk about it. I thought I was weak. Thanks for bringing attention to this.

[kaldraws8280]

My dad thinks it’s funny that I used to cry when he raised his voice. I freak out whenever some one does. Once my director did, and I started crying I couldn’t stop. I’m glad to see I’m not alone…

[suicunesrider]

This is so important– seeing how common this is– and I also want you all to know that this is not normal. It isn’t something instinctively ingrained into women, to be afraid of men. There is no natural state of men being a threat that women constantly have to be afraid of. This is cultural. So many women and girls here have a mutual understanding of this feeling, and I think it really shows an unsettling truth about our society, particularly about how men are raised to act and how so many women have this defensive reaction gradually develop. It’s so important that these people have their voices heard, because it teaches us about problems that we just can’t deny the existence of any longer.

[shidoninoure]

I’m glad I’m not the only one

[anexperimentallife]

My fellow men, pay attention. I didn’t realize how scary this could be until one of my exes explained it to me, and it’s heartbreaking.

Also, when we move too much during an argument, or lean forward, it’s scary, and I never knew. I was even a little insulted at first, because surely she didn’t think I would hurt her. But see, that doesn’t matter. It wasn’t a sign that she mistrusted me specifically; it’s a conditioned response. (Although if you keep doing it once you realize it scares her, she SHOULDN’T trust you.)

Not every woman has been physically harmed by a man she trusted, but every woman KNOWS a woman who has.

I used to be horrible about this, because I didn’t realize how intimidating it was. I didn’t understand why the woman I was with clammed up or tried to tell me what she thought I wanted to hear, and I only got angrier, and acted even more like an asshole. It was wrong. It was abusive. It didn’t matter if I INTENDED it that way; it was still emotionally abusive. And it was inexcusable.

I get that when passions are high, and when you’re frustrated, it’s a natural tendency to let your voice get louder, to shout and gesture and lean forward. But you can train yourself to do better. You can train yourself to keep more of an even tone, to refrain from large and fast gestures, to not lean into her personal space. I did. I’m not perfect at it yet, but goddamn it, I WILL be.

Don’t tell me it’s too hard, that you just can’t do it, or that you “shouldn’t have to.” I’m 53 years old and just now getting the hang of it, and if this old dog can learn something new, so can you.

[sergle]

concept: deep sea mermaids with dark eyes and glowing pupils, deep sea mermaids that are 70 feet long, deep sea mermaids older than written language speaking a dead and foreign tongue forgotten by surface mermaids, deep sea mermaids being heard conversing through clicks and rumbles from far down submarines deep sea mermaids

[willow-s-linda]

Merbaby is ready to explore the world.

[jusooobs]

Omg beautiful.