The Short of It:
I realized how to swim and why I have been doing it wrong.
How to Swim:
Like everything else, it’s all about waves. First simplify it. There are 5 waves (disregarding the neck and head as a 6th), torso, 2 legs, and 2 arms. These waves should be in tune with each other [though that is a more complicated aspect given they are 3d waves arching toward endpoints of each’s Period].
Apply the same theory I used to figure out how to walk properly [aka How to Walk on Water]. So, ideally, the waves just oscillate. Granted, friction from the water is much more substantial than air, which means a larger amount of acceleration is required to counter it.
However, I do think the friction is not nearly as large as one would presume. Think about a Sea Lion. Most of the friction will be focused at the nose and sides of the head at the starting point of it’s oscillating Periods.
What I Have Been Doing Wrong:
My Periods have been shifted, wrong starting points, wrong end points, well, at the joints. I am a Sine wave when I need to be a Cosine, lol. This is to say (and maybe I have those reversed, lol), if the joint “centers’ are endpoints of Periods, they need to be on their X-axis, not at 1. Mine are at 1, or near it. I have some shifting to do.
Other stuff was realized today. Other things, good things, happened, too, but I am spent, and I have written the most important aspects down. Yay, me.
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