Vundabar
03-18-14, 08:37 AM
Hello Marines,
My ship date is 20140414, less than one month away, although my recruiter said I am a backup shipper for next week, so with a little luck even sooner. I have never been more motivated in my life than in this month alone and I am counting down the hours until I hit the yellow footprints. In my opinion I am as ready for boot camp as I can be.
My only fear is the swim qualifications, more particularly, treading water. Over my time in the DEP I have had swimming lessons from different instructors and I am fine on the swimming part, treading water is my only downfall. I sink like a stone and can tread water for only like 1 minute doing techniques like the egg-beater etc, I just feel so negatively buoyant.
I left one of the instructors confused by how perfectly I was doing the technique yet stilling falling under shortly. To try and keep things short I eventually ended up hitting the pool occasionally and practicing different things myself, I have come to one way where I can tread water/float and it is not the prettiest but I am hoping it works.
If I lay my whole body in water, head back to the point where my nose and lips are basically the only things sticking out of it I can tread water for as long as I need. Is this acceptable at boot camp? If not do you guys ( Marines ) have any tips?
Thank you.
-Carlo N
My ship date is 20140414, less than one month away, although my recruiter said I am a backup shipper for next week, so with a little luck even sooner. I have never been more motivated in my life than in this month alone and I am counting down the hours until I hit the yellow footprints. In my opinion I am as ready for boot camp as I can be.
My only fear is the swim qualifications, more particularly, treading water. Over my time in the DEP I have had swimming lessons from different instructors and I am fine on the swimming part, treading water is my only downfall. I sink like a stone and can tread water for only like 1 minute doing techniques like the egg-beater etc, I just feel so negatively buoyant.
I left one of the instructors confused by how perfectly I was doing the technique yet stilling falling under shortly. To try and keep things short I eventually ended up hitting the pool occasionally and practicing different things myself, I have come to one way where I can tread water/float and it is not the prettiest but I am hoping it works.
If I lay my whole body in water, head back to the point where my nose and lips are basically the only things sticking out of it I can tread water for as long as I need. Is this acceptable at boot camp? If not do you guys ( Marines ) have any tips?
Thank you.
-Carlo N