Learn to Visualise .... post 23

We learn to visualise, create mental pictures, images of individual skills. As each skill becomes familiar to us we become more competent by repeatedly practising each of them. We progress to combine individual skills into phases which are part of a complete cycle of an action  

This developed from a clearly explained, properly demonstrated instruction of a skill/s. We practice to become aware of the sensations, action and re-action of our movement in water.

Developing the ‘feel’ in and of water is such a personal achievement. We cannot watch ourselves move or swim. For this reason all the little ‘lessons’ we have learned in previous blog posts which stimulate our senses we need to use to learn to swim
Developing the ability to visualise the skills of our learning stages requires that we develop mental and physical sensations which we either consciously or unconsciously become aware of as we move and practice our newly learned and already familiar swimming achievement
 
Through visualisation we become so in tune with the rhythm of movement that the sensations we feel on different parts of our body, arms, legs, face, our lungs, that burst of pride in our hearts encourages us to want to learn more and practice harder, without fear

We will never master this skill to perfection though we will want to keep on trying to. An adult or competitive sports person can learn this skill consciously creating their own method while smaller children develop this skill through a simple learning process and conscientious repetition ....