People say that , best way to learn to swim is practising by graddualy letting the air out of arm bands, i m 16 years old and i want to try this method with my arm bands, is this method will help? did you ever try that?
2007-03-14 23:52:55 · 7 answers · asked by john l 2 in Sports ➔ Swimming & Diving
The first thing I teach anyone learning how to swim is how to float on your back. Easiest thing to do and really the only survival skill you need if you fall in the deep end.
Here is how it works. Find a pool, get in (shallow end preferred). Lay back in the water and tilt your head back.
This will push up your mid section and as long as you take long deep breaths you will float. The air in your lungs is what keeps you afloat and you can pretty much do this as long as you want in a pool (within reason) if it is warm enough. Work on keeping your naval out of the water. A good drill if trying to self teach is to hold a kick board (those blue or red or yellow pieces of Styrofoam that you see the swimmers holding onto), around your midsection and tilt your head back until you feel your mid-section touch the board and hold it as long as you feel comfortable.
If water splashes in your eyes, don't freak out and lift your head, if you are in this position and you tilt your head forward your mid-section will sink like a stone, butt first.
Three items of note when your head is tilted back:
If water water splashes your eyes, your head is fine, just blink a couple of times and the sting will go away.
If your eyes are IN the water, your head is too far back
If water is up your nose, head is definitely too far back
it will burn, but still no need to panic, just slightly adjust your head forward until your eyes are above the water line.
Once you have figured this out the next step is to fludder kick, by moving your feet up and down with your feet pointed. SLIGHTLY flex the hip and knee backwards (roughly 20 to 30 degree bend in the knee), then push down at your hip and extend at the knee at the same time with both legs in an alternate motion.
The more you bend your knee and hip the harder it will be to move forward, and could help pull your mid-section down in the water. This doesn't even include how quickly you can tire yourself out. Now you can get to the side of a pool, if you fall in the deep end and get disoriented.
Just kick until your head bangs into something then reach out for the wall.
You just had your first self-taught lesson in survival swimming in the deep end of a pool. You are not prepared to face nature yet (ocean, river or lake), but you can at least survive the ferocious deep end.
2007-03-15 03:49:11 · answer #1 · answered by Mark S 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Going underwater and learning about breath control in the bath/sink and opening the eyes to pick up coins from the pool bottom starting at the shallow end and gradually moving up.Once confident underwater you never lose it and swimming strokes and learning how your body floats or sinks (some people have negative buoyancy) develops naturally from there.I ended up being self taught when I was 20 and have since taught somebody else to swim as a 1 to 1 teaching which I would recommend.
2007-03-15 11:25:11 · answer #2 · answered by GRAHAM F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No never heard of that. But what you could do is practice in water that you can touch bottom until you are comfortable in water. Most people I know who can't swim are afraid of water and that prevents them from relaxing.
I would recommend taking swimming course.
2007-03-15 00:02:40 · answer #3 · answered by Tab 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
won't do that if i were you...
i learned to swim at about your age too. though a bit embarrassing, i started to learn at 1,5 meters pool, have my brother to tutor me for about 2 or 3 times. then i moved to olympic pool.
tutor is essential (atleast for me), because once you get it wrong, it's not that easy to fix it. i mean, you can swim forward after a few trial, no matter what style, but if you do it wrong, then you won't be fast enough, easily get tired and tension.
2007-03-15 00:14:51 · answer #4 · answered by mbagus_st 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should probably take some lessons, once you are comfortable with the water, you will learn quickly! Good Luck!
2007-03-15 11:44:01 · answer #5 · answered by forever_forgotten2008 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
take some swimming lessons
2007-03-15 02:57:52 · answer #6 · answered by Chelsea 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Never tried that - was thrown in and had to go with the flow...literally!
2007-03-14 23:56:51 · answer #7 · answered by Bite Me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free style is the best for swimming practice.
2007-03-14 23:59:38 · answer #8 · answered by nimesh 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋