31-12-2017, 02:39 PM
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I have tentatively promised myself a new year resolution, whether I keep it or not remains to be seen, I intend to learn to swim
I can go to the only pool which is at Skei Hotel 6 miles away . My wife goes mainly for physio. but also swims a bit there, not a large pool but enough for me , very little used especially first thing in the morning.So we will see.
31-12-2017, 02:42 PM
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Lovely photos Meg and well done to her parents. My son has been taking baby Jaxon swimming since he was 2 months old, the baby that is, not my son
My son was also swimming very early in his life, and at 4 years old he somehow or other got into a swimming race for 12 year olds and won them. We were never quite sure how he got mixed up in the race, but he was disqualified anyway as he shouldn´t have been there.
31-12-2017, 03:33 PM
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Originally Posted by realspeed
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Wouldn't work for me i have a morbid fear of water over my face. All stems from nearly drowning at 3 years old in an uncles pond. it was a 5 year old cousin pulled me out so I am told.
A similar thing happened to a brother of mine, but for my eldest brother happening passed at the time, he would have drowned.
31-12-2017, 05:00 PM
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I learned at age 11 self taught with some friends, but I didn't become a strong swimmer until my mid to late teens. This was on account of having a fear of water because of my brother pushing my head under in the pool when I was about five or six. He thought it was funny, I was terrified. I don't do diving or deep underwater swimming to this day.
31-12-2017, 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Norway
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I have tentatively promised myself a new year resolution, whether I keep it or not remains to be seen, I intend to learn to swim I can go to the only pool which is at Skei Hotel 6 miles away . My wife goes mainly for physio. but also swims a bit there, not a large pool but enough for me , very little used especially first thing in the morning.So we will see.
01-01-2018, 11:26 AM
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As a retired swimming teacher/tutor/coach and Adult/baby swim teacher, can I just say that the younger the better!Babies are born with the automatic reflex that shuts breathing down under water (just like they can automatically suck and cry). They lose that reflex at around nine months old.
Any child that goes to an Ad/Baby class before the age of about 8-9 months takes to it with no problem - it tends to be the adult who's nervous, and that nervousness is picked up on by the baby.
My daughter (also a qualified adult/baby swim teacher) took her son to the pool where she worked when he was four weeks old (and as he was six weeks premature, that makes him -2 weeks!). To start with it was just for a few minutes each time, but they've gone swimming every week since then and he now often refuses to get out after an hour!
He's just turned four years old, and earned his 25m badge six months ago. And this morning he told me that when he's six he wants to go to the Olympics and beat Michael Phelps!
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