My experiments with Swimming and Bicycling

I learned swimming a decade ago and now I am revising my skills on my own and with friends by practicing in the lake or pond. I will keep you updated step by step process which I followed and observed while these practice sessions.

1. Sculling: keep your palms open and all fingers held close to each other without any gap. Move your hands at 45 degrees under the water without disturbing the surface. The wrist should straight and stiff, without any bend.
2. Floating on your back: do the skulling, keep in mind do not disturb the water surface. and keep your toes together and pointed out.
3. flutter kick: toes pointed out and kicking one after another. The only foot can come out while kicking, but knees should always be underwater. Hands should be up backward and touch the ears, this is called the streamline position. 
4. Lungs filled with air always add to the buoyancy
5. For back float: bring your shoulder blades back, tighten your stomach, engage your rib-cage. ear in the water
6. finning:
7.  Eggbeater kick: circling the water with legs, one leg in clockwise direction and another in anticlockwise direction.

When you are beginner learning swimming, you might need the assistance of some personal floating devices (PFD) like a kick-board, floating dumbles etc.

When you go swimming in the pool or in open waters like a lake, sea, ocean, then there are a few things that we need to understand:

1. There might be a water snake
2. If there are green or blue fungi on the surface of the open water like a lake, so avoid better going into it.
3. If the pool is not clean and clear, not go swimming in it.
4. If the outside temperature is very high, so there is a high probability that the water in the open pool or lake would be equally warm, and it attracts some kind of flies, so better avoid going into the water.

Bicycling: When you are in Europe, you need to experience the riding the bicycle. And, if you are in Switzerland which is surrounded by the Alps and small hills here and there, then a bicycle with gears is a must.