After 3 or 4 visits to different doctors and an 2 MRIs, in the morning of March 24th, 2011, I was going in for surgery to repair the lateral side of the meniscus in my right knee. The surgery was a method I never heard before, “repair with fibrin clot”. They pulled some of my own blood, made a small clot, opened my knee, inserted the clot and stitched the thing back together. Of course I did some research before going for it, what I didn't know was that this is more effective if you're under 25yo, I was 41yo at that time.

We can easily not pay attention to our breathing technique, just because it happens naturally, we don't make an effort to breathe unless we start putting our bodies through exercise, raising our heart rates, only then we notice that we might be out of breath.

For swimmers, it's a do or drown thing, we are out of our natural environment when we have our faces in the water, so when practicing the freestyle, butterfly or breath stroke, we have to get our heads out and pull in the air in through our mouths.