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Summary: Once kids have taken several swimming lessons, swimming with other kids can be helpful for building swimming skills. Get children to swim with other kids using tips from a lifeguard in this free video swim lesson for kids.
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Peter Elizondo Peter Elizondo is a lifeguard of three years who swam for the junior varsity and varsity teams at Nikki Rowe High School. He teaches swimming lessons to both ... read more
In this section, I'll be talking about step number fourteen. Now, you're coming to the very end of you know, really teaching that person whether it's a child, or teen-ager, or an adult how to swim. And, as you've gone up to this point, they can already you know, float on their face, kick their legs, use their arms, they know about the breathing. Now, what you want to do is switch it up. Go to either an event, or a party, or have some friends over that are around their age and you know, just let them enjoy the evening. Because what's going to happen, is you're going to have some other people that can already swim and that can already kick, but just like everything in life, when you see someone similar to you, doing something that you're trying to learn, and you see them plain out just doing it, then you're going to tend to actually just do it yourself, without even thinking about all of the obstacles that you may have in your head. Or, you know if they're going to go to a party, or what you could do as well, is maybe you know, have them go out with some friends, take them to the pool, and either a public pool, or your pool, or a relative's pool and just make sure there's other people around their age. And, just let them have some fun and see what happens. That will, first off they've already learned all the skills, and what tends to happen is as you're teaching someone, they try to figure out in their head, just like you and me would is o.k, what step was after the next step, after the next step, when really they've already been practicing it, and they already know what to do, so when they're around other people their age, it's naturally going to come to them. And, now it just took them from beginner or intermediate to extremely advanced, and they're going to just do it naturally, and that's definitely step number fourteen, that I would really suggest for you to do with them.