My dad taught me to swim at an age so young that I don't remember not being able to, making the compulsory school swimming lessons in P5 and P7 crucifyingly painful because they didn't have enough instructors to allow for the five competent swimmers to do anything but stand around freezing slowly while the other 25 were hauled through the basics. It did stand me in good stead for coaching sailing though, which often involved hanging off things in cold water until the kids were retrieved and you could start untangling whatever upended you in the first place.
Despite the other half having swim competitively at one point, Child has had school swimming only and as with many things in her secondary school, they only seem to put effort into kids who are already good, so I've spent chunks of each holiday coaching her up to speed. But we need to get her an actual instructor for a few lessons because the breathing through crawl comes so naturally to me that I can't find a way to explain it and then she just holds her breath and powers through until she sinks.
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Date: 2018-09-15 12:18 pm (UTC)Despite the other half having swim competitively at one point, Child has had school swimming only and as with many things in her secondary school, they only seem to put effort into kids who are already good, so I've spent chunks of each holiday coaching her up to speed. But we need to get her an actual instructor for a few lessons because the breathing through crawl comes so naturally to me that I can't find a way to explain it and then she just holds her breath and powers through until she sinks.