You won’t have time to swim at TBS. You have to pass WS-1, before they will send you to FL. It entails this burning oil thing that really sucks – pass it the first time. The way to pass this, is to have a strong cardio, there was not too much technique other than just sucking it up. It is basically the breaststroke, but instead of using your hands to pull you through the water, you are using them to splash, which pushes you – hence you have to make up for it with your kicking. Remediation swim at TBS is going to be the last thing you want to do, trust me.
I am only a week into API, but so far, the swimming is a joke. Granted I am a strong swimmer, so this is a slanted perspective. I will let you know how the mile swim goes later on. I haven’t heard many stories about people screwing it up.
Our PTI or whatever the Navy calls him essentially has us on the Richard Simmons workout plan, once again, a joke.
The mile swim is in the pool. Later on, I think we do some parasailing out in the ocean, I’m not sure what it entails, just taking it a day at a time.
If you want to work on swimming, breast/side stroke are the main survival strokes. Then work on the crawl. How to prepare…just hit the pool, swimming is all about technique before power.
