[OPEN TO ALL] Swimming Lessons

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

Who: OPEN TO ALL interested
What: Swim Lessons: Stage 2
When: during the day into early evening (well before the coming event)
Where: at the ocean
Summary: The ocean part of the promised swim lessons!
Rating: G as far as I know. Maybe PG.

The water is relatively calm today, which makes it easier for lessons. Lucky~! It feels like any beach trip might.

Ami, clothed in shorts and a shirt over her bathing suit and wearing a whistle around her neck, wades just a short distance into the water so that it laps at her bared feet. She digs her toes deeper into the muck, unseen.

She has a few extra whistles for other instructors or helpers, and she looks over the group assembled. This is the first time she's really put herself forward like this, though she's confident in her skills. Hopefully it will go well.

(ooc: action tags, prose, anything is fine; threadjack to heart's content, pair up, random gawkers welcome as well as participants ♥)

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[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

"Those are a good beginning," Ami allows. "Are you also familiar with the backstroke and butterfly stroke?" The latter was rather showy; Ami tended to prefer backstroke herself, a gentle stroke to allow her to unwind her mind.

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[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

"My brothers tried showing the butterfly stroke to me before, but it always seemed to take too much energy to really be worth it." Also, it's so much more complicated, what with the dolphin-kicking and double-arm-flailing.

you fill my heart meter, bb

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

"We don't worry about it for today," Ami decides. "Next time, in calmer water, maybe." It was a beautiful stroke to learn. Elegant. Powerful.

here, have some more <3333

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

"Alright." Starting in a pool would definitely be easier. "Which stroke will we be doing first, then?"

/collects. do they give extra lives if i collect enough?

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

"I think breast stroke might be easiest, to start, with the waves." She speaks slightly hesitantly, though she makes a concerted effort to overcome that and take the lead.

oh definitely. 8D

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

"Mm, right. Shall we start now?"

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

"I'm already ahead!" This comes with a sly grin as Ami slips further out in the water.

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

"Don't leave me behind!" Lucy says, laughing, and she starts splashing into the waves as well, stopping to shiver briefly when the water gets to chest level.

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

Ami seems entirely undisturbed by the temperature. She treads water as though it's quite comfortable. "Come out further!"

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

Lucy does exactly that. She paddles out to meet Ami, every so often ducking under the waves and popping out again with a laugh.

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

Be careful. The waves can catch you by surprise.

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

"I will," she says, and she starts treading water as well. (Although it's so much fun to bob around with the waves!)

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

A large wave hides Ami for a moment before it crashes and Ami is clearly visible again.

"It's almost like an amusement park ride."

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

"Yes! And a free one at that."

A few minutes of contented bobbing later, Lucy suddenly remembers their original purpose. "We were going to be doing the breastroke, right?"

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

Ami slips easily into the stroke in question. Her movements are fluid and confident here in the water; she seems to expend little effort for the results she reaps.

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

Lucy, on the other hand, is considerably less graceful. She usually manages to keep a steady pace, but the waves make her movements erratic--she still has some difficulties with arm/leg coordination.

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

After a short while, Ami treads water instead of swimming.]

I think it's better to concentrate on your timing right now. You have the movements correct, but you're slowing yourself down, a little.

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

Okay.

[Lucy deliberately slows down her arm and leg movements in order to better control them. She can do it slowly, it seems; just not when the motions are sped up.]

[no-use-running.livejournal.com]

There. That goes a little better, doesn't it?

[queenly-valiant.livejournal.com]

Yes. Though going faster is the difficult bit.