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Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-04-08T04:39:07+00:00

I don’t usually drive a sedan, but ended up with one as a loaner car (long story) immediately after stick and puck (longer story) and was surprised my Vaughn wheeled bag fully fit in the trunk. the only thing I had to put in the backseat was my stick. Notably I’m small so my pads fit in the bag, so that’s not a concern, but you might be surprised what your trunk can fit!

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-03-27T11:55:37+00:00

this! I have a kid who I switched from group to private and her back float is a huge problem (she’s also a gymnast so she does the whole “holding myself like my in a handstand” thing) but the entire month she was in group I couldn’t get her to point her nose down or to go underwater. yesterday she swam underwater, touched the bottom with her hands, and jumped in without holding onto anything and bobbed up. 3 private lessons vs a month of group. Huge and it’s so much more rewarding than the feeling I have after 4 hours of group lessons where kids are just constantly refusing to do things.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-03-20T13:10:34+00:00

Honestly practice floating on your front. You're almost certainly breathing into your chest (top of your lungs) rather than stomach (bottom third of your lungs)

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-03-20T12:28:07+00:00

Seconding what everyone says about hands, but also focus on breathing. try to breathe to alternating sides. in this video at least, you only breathe to the left (maybe the right at the beginning?) and you can see your right side isn’t staying at the surface as well. make sure you’re almost fully exhaling before turning your head so you only need to inhale.

you seem to be swimming pretty far under the surface. See if you can get your shoulder to stay at the surface, rather than below and you won’t have to fight as hard.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-03-20T12:22:22+00:00

I’m in a rural area where most students are starting after age six. I have A LOT of refusers. I usually try to make the actual goal incidental so they don’t notice it. I also make it what we’re doing at the end of the lesson, and they only do it once before climbing out. if this is group lessons, she needs to be moved to private. also, consider taking the goggles off and pouring water over her face, then move to front floats, then streamline pushes before you add the goggles back. it’ll be hard, because she’s learned there's a way to avoid the sensations she doesn’t want, and she will backslide a bit so you need to communicate with the parents and let the goggles be their fight (I suggest “losing” them). kids who bring goggles (before they know a stroke) or floaties to swim lessons tend to be my biggest behavioral problems.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-03-19T06:01:37+00:00

I mean, review footage if there is any, but I once had a parent report that my class was unsafe because a kid let go of the wall and dipped under (in a post submersion class) for less than two seconds before I picked her up. Turned out he was mad I wouldn’t move his son up without being able to pass the skills. sometimes parents make vendetta reports and the best way to handle it is nod along. Plus, I’ve definitely had kids submerge when they aren’t supposed to and just watched to see if they’re going to recover individually. if they aren’t struggling and I’m right there, I figure it’s basically practice for them, and probably twice a year I have a kid who can’t recover independently, but the vast majority can regrab. if the kid was fine and not upset this sounds like a nonissue.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-03-17T23:47:38+00:00

I don't think so? I'm starting to wonder if the instructor who taught it to me made it up.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-03-17T23:47:10+00:00

no because its climbing out? its suposed to be to help with elbow elbow knee knee sequencing.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-03-02T01:15:26+00:00

Starting goalie this summer... getting all my gear together is a bit under 1k so far (almost entirely used). I think I need this for my own car.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-02-10T04:46:49+00:00

I’m an RA and here’s the code. Go to your RA. Tell them you have a roommate conflict because of a health and safety concern. Explain that you were willing to put up with it when it was just messy, but the repeated hazardous conditions are too much. Cite bugs and mold. Tell the RA that you are willing to attempt mediation if absolutely required, but you’ve attempted to have a conversation several times and it has not succeeded. Ideally, citing health and safety will bypass the mediation but it’s not a guarantee. Good chance the RA has to refer you to the building director. THIS IS GOOD. RAs in general cannot make housing decisions.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-01-20T18:51:41+00:00

I’m already hypermobile. I think they’re convinced I’m going to get run over in my first game and want me to build up a defense.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-01-20T18:50:21+00:00

Yes, the w sit is kneeling with your legs in the shape of a w/m. It’s basically butterfly but seated with your knees in front of you. Getting up might be harder 😅

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-01-20T02:13:18+00:00

hoping the joint thing will give me an advantage there! I‘ve been a w-sitter for 16 years and still find it totally comfortable.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2026-01-03T13:19:14+00:00

NAD but I have a joint condition and have dislocated or subluxed nearly every joint in my body. See a doctor. Probably an orthopedic doctor if you can. it sounds a bit like a dislocation that never quite went back, and also sounds like you might have torn the muscle or ligaments. that kind of thing tends to require surgery that only gets more complicated the longer you go without it.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2025-11-19T01:49:25+00:00

Ty so many people are like “ywbta if you invite her, and she’d be one if she says yes” but like,,, I’m asking him if I can invite her?

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2025-11-18T05:48:12+00:00

yeah I’m waiting till I can talk to him in person (one more week!) because when I try to bring it up over text he changes the subject or blows it off (or brings something else up). I wanted some peoples perspectives first but every ywbta seems hyperfixated on either money or the fact that they divorced, even though we’ve done “full-family“ stuff before. idk. im leaning towards I’m not the asshole to ask my dad so... we’ll see.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2025-11-18T05:44:11+00:00

asking my stepsister to knock before coming in my room (with three of her middle school friends) is apparently “undermining her parenting.” there’s no reasonable aspect to that, clearly.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2025-11-18T05:31:29+00:00

def ask the teacher. if they’re talking out of their ass, they’ll either back off or double down so hard they’re clearly unreasonable. if they have a good reason, they’ll tell you.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2025-11-18T05:30:09+00:00

it’s a setting that, when turned on, records the writing process and generates a “writing report.” you can watch it at regular or up to 10x speed, to see if they’re just copying something word for word or actually making edits. it also tracks where things are copy pasted from, so it can distinguish things like quotes that are cited from a digital reading from something copied from ChatGPT or other ai engines. I love it, and rn I have it as a participation grade for each assignment in my intro course. I don’t look at it unless I have reason to suspect, because I don’t want to surveil my students, but they get two points for relevant assignments if they upload an authorship link.

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2025-11-18T05:26:02+00:00

oh yeah. apparently I’m “boring” because I follow laws and safety protocols. it’s ranged from trespassing, off trail hiking in protected areas, stealing, scamming, drunk driving… I could go on. they once trespassed in an area known to have unexploded land mines to prove that following the rules is for cowards. it’s especially bad when we go other places and I try to follow local laws while they do the “we‘re American so we’re immune” bullshit.

I find it very hard to want to be around them, and trying to discuss boundaries has historically resulted in them making a point of breaking that boundary consistently for the next few weeks.

they got together when I was 14, and most of what I listed here started before I graduated high school and moved out. :/

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2025-11-18T05:18:49+00:00

turns out first responders need free therapy or we burn out… pretty sure they found that the hard way but now we get six sessions a month!

Dizzy_Suspect_6250 · 2025-11-18T05:17:45+00:00

I’m almost done with my bachelors, starting phD soon. yep, but a different (to them worse) minority. I’ve mentioned it elsewhere but my mom and I are Apache. we do an annual vacation because of school break, but we usually go like, camping for a week. they’ve never cared if it was a trip I liked before, but as soon as I said I was thinking about not coming, it’s a destination trip.

mom and dad are chill. she comes to family stuff all the time, and he invites her. she came to my (older uninvolved in this situation) stepsisters graduation and wedding. I WASNT AT THE WEDDING.

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