Childhood story:
One time I went to swim in a public pool with my younger cousin during a summer break. The pool was quite packed, since the Cantonese summer is hot and humid, and we lived in a very populated city. The lifeguard teased me that my breaststroke was wrong and very inefficient. He said in order to be more efficient, I should close my fingers so that my palm could scope the water and help move the body forward.
First of all, breaststroke is the only swimming style I can ever do, without drinking too much water (freestyle and butterfly) or going zigzag head-first (backstroke). Ever since that childhood experience, I was very diligent about closing my fingers every time I swim, though I didn't feel any tiny bit of improvement.
During the last Summer Olympic Game, which closed not a month ago, I saw gold medalist Rebecca Soni's breaststroke, and guess what, her fingers were OPENED, and she swam like a dolphin!
I don't know why but I still remember that swimming pool incident like it happened yesterday.
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