mugger... point taken :) Think I've been taken out of context though (mainly due to my crap writing on the internet :p). All I was trying to say is that if you are fight training, don't go crazy about learning efficient stroke etc - just swim. You don't need to be at the olympic level to gain benefits from swimming - oh the downside to early morning posts :p

That said, if you're doing a swim sprint with crap technique, you're going to work twice as hard and still take longer. I'm not advocating this, just pointing it out. In the same way that the guy who has no clue how to skip and takes massive jumps will get knackered mega quick doing 3minute skipping rounds. I'm not advocating skipping like an idiot, just illustrating a point :)

If you're an efficient swimmer, of course you'll need to be doing extra/adapted stuff - my point made sense in my head but didn't come out that well :p