ya know. i sit at work, and now that i'm done with school and all, i really have nothing to do. however i like to rumage through all the magazines in the lobby, but i think i read through the interesting ones in about a week, and turnover isnt that great there. what do you expect with monthly editions?

anyway. my only other option for sanity is to either find people (usually kids) that are entertaining to watch or try to seek out some sort of conversation. i'm finding new ways to create conversation... something i lacked in the past, so overall, i'll chalk this job up to actually something beneficial. learning to talk.

but other than that, i just look at the ladies. in swimsuits.
theres actually some hot ones out there. my job's location doesnt really attract the most though...
theres still some. and theres some hope for summer.

whats crazy though is how people carry their fat. fat men. usually around the waist and back. the bigass stomach thing goin on.
women. they vary. they can do the torso storage or they just go balls out legs. every ounce of fat entrusts itself to the lower regions. starting from hips down.
this shit is crazy. cuz it just looks so odd. its like you have a body suit and you take all the pillows you can muster and shove them solely into your pants. and the shit just balances on itself.
maybe this is a better metaphor to me because i actually lived that one halloween.
then i saw someone else get out of the water, bent over with palms on the ground and on their knees. skin looked like sleeves. skin sleeves drooping over actual skin. i have yet to describe what it looks like in a good sense that will give you a good picture. but when i think of one, i'll let you know.

what i actually wanted to blog about wasnt that stuff, but actually swimming itself.
manuel sent me this thing about how many people there are out there that actually arent up to par with their swimming abilities. and who may even go as far as saying that they dont know how to swim.

now. watching children that come to the pool also not knowing how to swim, i think i see the big problem that they need to overcome in order to perfect, or at least be capable of swimming. i believe theres two things, but one progressive naturally from the other.

ok. so the major, most threating thing to your inability to swim is:
not being horizontal. too many people, adults and children included are too used to being vertical. when you watch kids trying to swim without proper guidence (which i see at swim lessons all the time at the pool), the kids will be damn near vertical with their heads tilted backward so the entire surface area of their face is protruding from the water. this. of course is natural, because with the bit of exertion youre putting forth to breathing, theres enough energy output to require breathing through your mouth and nose rather than just your nose. also, water up the nose isnt the most fun feeling ever. ok.

so back to the point. if somebody would make these kids float on their stomaches, face down for about a minute. arms out, only pulling both arms together to one side getting air from the side of their head rather than bottom (relative when vertical) then they are making a giant step to becoming an efficient swimmer. this will teach them to not need that vertical position to get air with their whole face exposed out of the water, the motion they return to when the teacher says theyre done.

so with this horizontality comes the second major step, which is head in the water. people will keep their heads above water in any manner to have that continual flow of oxygen. get over it people. you can hold your breathe for 2 seconds in a pertpetual pattern for a rather long period of time. it doesnt even take much practice. once you have the breathing from the side motion, you'll be set.

so this can be done just by having the kid put their ears in the water... dipping your head into the water sideways. they can be standing on the bottom or floating, it doesnt matter.

ok. once youve got this down, i guarantee swimming will come to you almost naturally. all you have to do is learn how to get horizontal.
...for some you'd think it wouldn't be so foreign...