Swimming progress update III

One more class to go before completing my 8 weeks of summer lessons!  My front crawl is coming along - I have the individual motions for the arms and legs down, but when I try to put it all together, everything gets sloppy.  A bit more (read: a lot more) practice is required for that.  Learning to breathe would be nice, but that will have to wait until my form gets better.  I did discover that I can do 1/2 of a backstroke - I can kick and keep myself afloat and going pretty decently.  I'll try to add in the arms next time and see if that gets me going any faster.  Still can't tread water though - that and my front crawl will be my two big goals to finish up the summer.  Overall though, looking at where I was 8 weeks ago, I definitely feel like I've made some progress! 

Swimming progress update II

15 lessons into the summer, I can finally do something that resembles swimming!  For the longest time, I couldn't figure out how to hold my body so that I could float on my stomach - my front would float, but my legs would sink and pull me down.  Today, at the end of class, we played a game called Sharks and Minnows. The instructors stood in the middle of the pool and were the sharks.  We were the minnows, and we were supposed to swim by them.  If our heads were out of the water, they could tag us and we became sharks the next round.  Somehow, during the first round of the game, I figured out how to hold my body so that my legs didn't sink!  I already had my kick down decently, so for the very first time ever, I almost sorta swam!  I still can't integrate the arms without disrupting my legs, or breathe, but hey, progress is progress right?  At this rate, maybe I will learn to swim by the end of the year!