Kt swimming

4 weeks on from saying goodbye to Cameron, Kt is starting to benefit from her training with Tammy.

Cameron definitely laid the groundwork and Tammy is a bit harder, nice but less friendly than Cameron,or perhaps more demanding.

The girls will be asked to do something for one whole lap of the pool, then repeat it on the way back and repeat it again and all the way back a second time.

They are really swimming now!

At first Kt was upset that and felt that she couldn't do it, but Tammy flat out refused to let her think that. She just kept saying you are doing it you are doing great ... and there wasn't much Kt could reply to that.

The drills she has been given are really paying off. This week her strokes and movement through the water were so beautiful and so graceful it was like watching a dancer.

I could not take my eyes off her. She was delighted to hear this when I told Nanna, and she herself really noticed a difference this week in how she was going.

What Tammy is trying to reinforce is the correct head position to use when taking a breath ... keeping her ear tucked close to her outstretched arm and rotating her body but still keeping it in one long line from fingertip to toe.

She has tried to get Kt used to this in a number of ways, either holding onto the kickboard with two hands and turning her head to the side, or holding the kickboard with one hand while the other rests on her leg.

She has had to do it without the kickboard, wearing flippers and I guess in the coming weeks she will be trying without flippers.

There is certainly something to be said for practice and muscle memory and all that.