Today I had my second swim class, and we focused on backstroke after freestyling for a little while. He had us kick on our back while paying attention to our head position so that our bodies floated correctly in the water. After that, he had us stroke while paying attention to getting a full body rotation yet keeping our heads entirely still. I don't have a terrible time keeping my head still when I have a unique cloud to look at, or a ceiling, but the cloud cover that day was perfectly white and uniform! As a result, my head wobbled all over the place and my swim instructor had a good laugh. He told me to try putting an almost empty water bottle on my forehead and concentrate on getting the full rotation while not letting the bottle fall off. I was hesitant but tried it and the water bottle immediately fell off. I had thought it would fall on my face and hurt, but it just kept falling into the water. I will have to work on that so that I can be more streamlined without a head wobble.
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