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Originally Posted by cantdrv55
I sink like a rock so I panic. I’m not confident treading water even.
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Your error is almost certainly that you are trying to hold yourself too high in the water. To swim, almost all of you needs to be under the water. Even your mouth and nose can be under most of the time, and you just bob up to inhale.
Nobody sinks like a stone, but it requires enormous effort for anybody to hold even 10% of their body above the waterline, which can make it feel like it's hard work just to float.
Practice being under the water at the level your body effortlessly sits in the water and just bob up enough to take a breath.
Once you learn this, swimming is effortless.
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