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How can an adult non-swimmer learn how to swim?
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.
‘How can an adult non-swimmer learn how to swim? ‘
same way a child non swimmers learns how – whats the question?
Join the Y or JCC and take lessons with the life guard.
If you’re in BP, you can go to Yeled V’Yalda’s gym, where there is a nice spacious pool and a lifeguard!
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.
Squeak, I almost choked on my drink !!!
crdle- but since you didn’t, you now know how to drink. Mazel tov.
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.
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…
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!
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
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).
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.
Squeak, Squeak, Squeak…
Doesnt the Y in Boropark have seprate swimming hours and people to teach you how to swim?
yes it does.
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?
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!
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”
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.
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:)
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?
“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.
“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!
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.
take lessons from a qualified teacher
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