Something about learning to swim
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I share my memories of 1994 when I learnt to swim at sardar patel stadium muni. Swimming pool.
It is not possible to learn to swim by one's ownself. But once you learn properly in a proper class, you enjoy for your entire life.
I sharemy experience of learning to swim reproduced as sent to some young fb friend. Even my sons were enrolled by me in such classes there.
It takes one month to complete learning and then they take your test like a driving test. Then you pass it.
In the starting sessions they ask you to hold a paali with hands, you become horizontal and go on kicking with feet. Then like cycling move your legs.
Then they form pairs. One man catches your hands and you kick, try to move. Then you catch his.
Then a few steps, around 50 kicks and 20.metres with instructor ready to catch you if you drown. Then once you are not tired by moving hands and kicking feet constantly, they ask you to swim in a line near the paali and ifyou are stable, they take you anywhere in shallow, app. 3 ft deep water. You widely slap water and kick being afraid in the beginning. Once stable, you move legs constantly but not with vigourous force. Move hands like a wheel from up to down and in sidesof your arm pits.
You start floating pushing your body in water.
Then they ask you to apply breaks in water, to jump from paali and 2 ft, and 3.5 feet and 3 metres when everyone is afraid and is told to look on the clock opposite, never almost 12 feet below.
Then they put some weight on your back. Water will distribute it. Then finally the test. You complete 100metres one to the other end , so swim 200 metres at a stretch, jump from 3 metres board, an instructor actually sits on your back at any time and pulls your legs also drawing you back. Go on moving hands. Then suddenly they throw a tyre or an object or throw themselves. Sometimes they jump just before you to obstruct. You have to take a turn and apply brakes.
Once 200 metres completed like this, they sign your licence.
When you go for a picnic you can enjoy swimming. I seldom swim now but my mind remembers it and whenever I jump for swimming I can swim easily for over 20 minutes at age 63. I enjoy it.
