I had my first coached swim training session this morning with Wendy. I was pleased that she was pretty happy with my overall swim technique. I need to do some work with my hand entry and a lot of work really stretching out my stroke. Right now I'm at about 16 strokes for the length of the pool and I'll need to get that down to 12. My kick needs some work too, so some time doing the kick for my backstroke may correct this. And then there's the whole endurance thing. I am a long way off from the 80 swims I used to do last summer. I am recovering from a cold, but that doesn't excuse my lack of endurance. I love swimming, so as soon as I'm feeling better I look forward to working a lot more on the swim.
I missed the basketball this time, but did make it for most of the footwork. Afterwards, spend most of my time fencing Sam. She had a lot of energy tonight, so it was hard to keep up with her, she was much more aggressive than usual...which is a good thing. I did take a lesson from Greg, which turned out to be more of a strategy session than anything else. I brought up several of my weaknesses, both defensively and offensively so that I could start working them out. I learned a few new strategies and Greg once again provided some very good metaphors for me to keep in mind. The last part of the evening, I spent watching Sam and Russel fence foil. Its so great to watch people who really know what they are doing. And Sam, although a young fencer was doing a great job as well and really made some amazing touches. Donna, Russel's wife, was judging the bout and gave Russel several handicaps, such as you can't make a direct hit - you have to engage her blade first or touches in her lower left quadrant (position 4) don't count, in order to give him some drills to work on.
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