Step One:
Get A Good Coach.
A swim
instructor or teacher will be able to give you a lesson on swimming. A friend
who can swim can even teach you the ropes. How about taking your swimming lesson
from your partner?
If you are
an adult, you need at least an hour per session. Children from 6 to 12 years
will need 15 to 45 minutes.
There is no
standard instruction as to how to learn how to swim. Instructions may differ,
but the arm strokes and leg kicks for competitive and all swimming are the
same.
Your first
lesson should be how to breathe while you are immersed in the water. How do we
breathe under water?
We breathe
with our mouth while under the water like a fish. This is called buccal breathing.
Begin in
shallow water. That is, water in which is knee or waist deep, and you are able
to stand.
Step Two:
Get Comfortable In Water
Breathing
Lesson. A breathing lesson I found useful is to fill a bucket or big bowl with
water.
Now, take a
deep breath. Immersed your face in the bucket or bowl of water and breathe out
with your mouth. Note bubble forming out as you breathe out. Breathing out with
the nose seems to be hard with most people, so breathe out with the mouth. Do
not swallow any water. Continue to breathe out and in with your mouth two more
time while your head still immersed in the water. Rise up your head and rest.
Do this two
more time. Do it whenever you take a bath until you can breathe out and in
comfortable with your mouth.
The next time
you are in shallow water, or a swimming pool, immersed your head and practice
breathing in and out with your mouth.
A fish has
no nostril but breathe in and out with the mouth.
Toads use
the same method.
Start with a
moderate depth say waist or chest deep that you can stand. If there is a
mistake or misshape, you can stand up to breathe normally in such a situation.
This is how
you should breathe when you are completely immersed in the water, buccal
breathing.
Later, we
will see how breathing can be integrated with arm strokes and kicking
movements.
Step Three:
Banish Your Fears Of Water.
Why people
are afraid to swim is because of drowning. They cannot breathe under water.
They do not know how to breathe under water. This is the all basic fear. Now
you do know how to do it prettily good.
Next, never
go for swimming alone while you are in the learning stage. But you go with your
teacher or with a good and strong swimmer. It is much better to go with group
of swimmers who knows what there are up to.
While getting
used to the water, do not swim in running water. You will not know what to do
in a critical condition like an undercurrent drift.
Do not swim
during a bad weather; and in water that is extremely too cold because your leg
and arm muscles can fail you when they get rigid. Even your breathing under water will be short
due to the cold. You will have a hard time to paddle yourself out of the water.
Step Four:
Learn Floating Techniques.
In water
that is at waist level, place your two hands palms down a foot away and your
legs will float.
You can use
your hands to move like a wheel barrow, while your legs still float. Enjoy the
fun for awhile!
If you like,
you can alternately kick the legs up and down in the water. This is the scissor kick.
This will propel
you forward and your hands get off the bottom of the pool!
The fall
only tells you that your hands need to be employed to continue to move forward.
Alternately,
hold the side of the swimming pool arms apart, and allow your legs to float. In
this posture, you make a T shape with your body by straight out your legs.
It is
optional to wear a goggle during a swimming session. It let you see clearly.
But you can open your eyes under water and swim.
More
Floating Confidence:
The Mushroom
float: Easy come and easy go with beginners. Water should be at chest level.
Shoulder should be under water while the face is submerged. Clasp your knees
with both hands. Your body will swirl forward and float. Your back appears to
break the surface of the water.
The Front
Float: You stand in water chest level, facing the side of the swimming pool or
bath with both hands holding the rail. Breathe in and lower your face in the
water for 2 to 3 seconds. Your legs will float effortlessly.
If you tuck
the legs under the body and try to sit down, you will get to the standing
position.
Always keep
your shoulders under water which is shallow or chest level. This will make your
body easy to float.
There is
nothing for you to do and make your body float in water. The trick is that your
body submerged completely in water and it will float effortlessly. That is why
water should be at waist or chest level (and above as we advanced). As we duck
under, the body effortlessly floated on its own!
The Back
Float:
Water is at
waist level.
Take a deep
breath and hold.
Keep the
shoulder under water as in the front float.
Keep the
back of the head under water.
Always look
toward your toes.
Avoid sitting
at the bottom of the pool or shallow water and you should not try to lift the
body and legs. Let the water support or do this.
Breathe out
and breathe in again and hold.
If you
breathe out and do not breathe in again your body will go under water.
The
breathing in seems to inflate the body like a rubber balloon or tube.
This
technique will help you relax or sleep on the water like the dead man posture!
Breathe in and hold your breath. Straight your legs and keep your arm parallel
to the body. Stay floated.
Threading
Water:
Water should
be slightly above chest level but below the shoulder.
Stand strait
or vertical.
Raise one
leg up and try to lower it while you raise the other like you are trying to
ride a bicycle.
Your hands
likewise should be cupped and paddle the water up and down.
The arm
motion balanced the leg peddle and you stay floated upward without any forward,
backward or side movement.
Notice that
I had not introduced any floating gear so far. My conviction is that one should
learn to swim without the gears. It can be introduce if the learner had a hard
time understanding instructions.
How You Can Learn To Swim The Breast
Stroke
The breast
stroke is one of the first strokes good for beginners in competition swimming.
But competition swimming is hardly our concern here.
What matters
is its importance in swimming like observing a sinking swimmer; and swimming on
to save that life.
Again, the
breast stroke is slowest of all the swimming strokes and can be use in a
leisurely and relax manner in water.
It is the
most popular of all swim strokes.
Three
movements are all that it takes to make the breast stroke to success.
It is a hard
stroke. All movement is done on the belly or breast with a fish-like stream
line body.
In
competition, if you miss one arm or leg stroke you stand disqualify, even if
you come up tops!
First, is
you press down and out. The body must be in a glide position in the water. You
dive in straight out your hands and legs.
With your
arms press down and out, take a dive and your head should be slightly above the
water but face submerged. Keep both legs and arms straight together. Let the
body glide awhile. In this way, the body is in a straight line or stream line
posture. Keep the head always above water or submerged it slightly above water
and look straight along the surface of the water.
Next, with
the cupped hands, pull the hands, pull the arms downwards and outwards, and
breathe in through the mouth.
Two, arms
and legs bend. Bring or press your hands towards the body; and at the same
time, draw up the knee toward the body and spread or open it outward apart so
that a drag or slow down motion is avoid.
Third, is
the glide. Arms and leg motion completed action and the body results in a glide
position again as the beginning above.
Here you
breathe out via, the mouth and nose.
After
allowing the body to glide awhile, continue with step two above, for another
glide and so on.
Then take
your rest if need be.
This is the
breast stroke technique of swimming.
To your good
health and swimming fun!
Miebakagh57
(Miebakagh Fiberesima) Copyright 2014.
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