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  • #592820
    Darchei Noam
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    How can an adult non-swimmer learn how to swim?

    #784909
    Feif Un
    Participant

    Ask your father to find someone who can teach you. Point out that it’s a mitzvah for a father to teach his son to swim, and he should therefore pay for the lessons.

    #784910
    tina18
    Participant

    ‘How can an adult non-swimmer learn how to swim? ‘

    same way a child non swimmers learns how – whats the question?

    #784911
    aries2756
    Participant

    Join the Y or JCC and take lessons with the life guard.

    #784912
    Chosson
    Member

    If you’re in BP, you can go to Yeled V’Yalda’s gym, where there is a nice spacious pool and a lifeguard!

    #784913
    squeak
    Participant

    Jump into the deep end of the pool. Let your body react naturally. If you don’t drown, then you have learned to swim. Mazel tov.

    #784915
    crdle
    Member

    Squeak, I almost choked on my drink !!!

    #784916
    squeak
    Participant

    crdle- but since you didn’t, you now know how to drink. Mazel tov.

    #784917

    I just wanted to clarify something. I’m a lifeguard but I am not certified to teach swimming (although some day I hope to get certified) make sure that whoever teaches you is certified to teach and is a lifeguard and dont let them “practice” on you like I’ve seen a lot of times.

    #784918
    postsemgirl
    Member

    I taught swimming lessons for two years and let me tell you squeak, that’s not the way to do it! You made me laugh though…

    #784919
    pet peeve
    Member

    mischeif is right: get a Water Safety Instructor (WSI) to teach you, someone who has experience. If possible, do it in private lessons (not group). It shouldn’t be a big deal, most instructors who are qualified to teach are able to work with hesitant/fearful learners. good luck!

    #784920
    WolfishMusings
    Participant

    Darchei Noam,

    I’m not sure what your question is. You learn to swim the same way you learn anything else. Find someone to teach you.

    The Wolf

    #784921
    sammyjoe
    Member

    ive taught adults to swim (and i do give swiming lessons for children) and i have found that there is not too much diffrence in the method of instruction! My method is to encorage the student by cheering him on, and to provide a crutch (that i wean him off).

    #784922
    aries2756
    Participant

    I am not a lifeguard and I have taught about 100 people (women and children) to swim because I learned as an adult and understand the fear of water. For some reason kids just trust me and they come with me into the water. I taught and teach my grandkids and when my grandkids are not with me in the pool I “borrow” someone else’s grandkids. Because I understand the fear of water I know how to get someone to overcome that fear without making them feel uncomfortable or foolish about it.

    #784923
    oomis
    Participant

    Squeak, Squeak, Squeak…

    #784924
    mosherose
    Member

    Doesnt the Y in Boropark have seprate swimming hours and people to teach you how to swim?

    #784925
    blinky
    Participant

    yes it does.

    #784926
    squeak
    Participant

    oomis, are you suggesting that squeezing a rubber ducky can help adults learn how to swim? Or was that the same typo (capital s) 3 times in a row?

    #784927
    blinky
    Participant

    Squeak- No Oomis meant squeak as in mouse! If a mouse is chasing you and there is only the pool to jump into, you bet any person will jump in the pool and swim away from it!

    #784928

    blinky, blinky

    mice can swim, and probably faster than you

    i would suggest you run, climb a tree, or jump up on the proverbial table and scream: “EEEEEEEEEK”

    #784929
    twisted
    Participant

    Yes, mice can swim as a mamalian instinct, but out of the water, the weight of the wet fur can kill the mouse from exhaustion and internal injury. Rats, though, are excellent swimmers. About fear, I was exposed to water from infancy, so I had no fear,and I must have had some rudimentary skills. Still, I was sent to public lessons at the age of 5 or so. The first lesson started this way: The instructor, (the local auto mechanic, gorilla sized) would pick each kid up, and toss him ten feet up and twenty over to land in deeper water (not a pool). Like squeak recommends, for those with fear of water, it mostly worked.

    #784930

    just want to mention, the screams i heard when pple saw a mouse were not eek, more like one of two other things:1) strangled sound with a very white face 2)high pitched drawn out squeal that sounded nothing like eek. its not a sound i can exactly describe:)

    #784931
    Droid
    Member

    Where can an adult frum male (who can’t swim) obtain swimming lessons that teach the basics how to swim, in a single gender environment, in either the Brooklyn or Catskills area?

    #784932
    Health
    Participant

    “make sure that whoever teaches you is certified to teach and is a lifeguard and dont let them “practice” on you like I’ve seen a lot of times.”

    You don’t have to be a lifeguard if you’re a WSI and vice-versa.

    #784933
    Health
    Participant

    “The instructor, (the local auto mechanic, gorilla sized) would pick each kid up, and toss him ten feet up and twenty over to land in deeper water (not a pool).”

    Yes, this was the way they used to do it. They have since then figured out a better way!

    #784934
    principal
    Member

    aries2756, ditto for me. I learned how to swim when I was already a grandmother and have taught countless children and adults how to swim. I am not a lifeguard or a WSI but I understand the fear. I have taught everyone how to swim simply by telling and demonstrating what to do and having them practice each step until they felt comfortable to take the next step.

    #784935
    mewho
    Participant

    take lessons from a qualified teacher

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