Swimming For Beginners - Adult Learn To Swim - Part 2

If you're an adult beginner swimmer, this is our second video, okay? So go back and watch the first video, which talks you through how to float and floating skills. Once you've learnt that first video and all the floating skills, then you can watch this video and it'll talk about propulsion. And propulsion is all about how you move through the water from A to B. For adult swimmers, you're not necessarily going to be needing to practise this in a 25 metre or a 50 metre pool. These videos are for those adults who just want to get in the backyard pool with friends and family, or they want to enjoy the resort pool when you go on holidays. You don't have to be swimming long, large distances. You just want to become comfortable from swimming from A to B in a relaxed manner and enjoying time in the pool with your friends and family. As an adult, once you become comfortable with your floating skills, that's floating on your back or floating with your face in the water, we can introduce the propulsive skills. The propulsive skills are kicks or paddles. When you're doing kicking skills, we're trying to keep our legs straight, little fast kicks. You're keeping your feet underwater to get maximum propulsion. When you're using your arms, we're doing it slow, okay? So kicks are always fast and your arms are always slow. You're keeping your arms nice and relaxed with a recovery just like this, nice and relaxed. Don't try to move too fast. Just go nice and slow and enjoy time in the water. When you're learning to swim, make sure you're always doing so with a buddy. You stick with a buddy while learning to swim. And when you go to the public pool, notify the lifeguard and say, hi, my name's Emma, I'm learning to swim and I'll be in the water today. And the lifeguard will be there to keep you safe and supervise. When you kick, you need to keep your legs fast and little. You don't wanna kick too deep. So you wanna maintain control over your kicks. So practice that warm up kick over and over to get confident. Once you feel nice and secure with that position, you can move on to kicking with a board. Let me show you. So you've got balance, you're going to put your thumbs on top and your fingers underneath, keeping your arms straight. Then you're going to keep your chin on your chest. This is all about body position. The more streamlined you are in the water, the more efficient you'll be when you swim. This will give you good balance and fast little kicks. So kicking on your back is a great skill because your face is out of the water. So you have really easy access to breathing, but you can also feel a little bit uncomfortable. So spend time perfecting that float before you introduce the back kick and even do your warm up kicks on a ledge like this. When you're kicking on your back, your knees and feet stay underwater. So you want little fast kicks with your knees and toes underwater. Try to keep your feet floppy like a fish's tail and that will give you the best type of propulsion. We're going to do a back kick all the way. What you've got to remember is your head is your steering wheel. So try to keep your head in a neutral position. If you tilt your head like this, you're going to go off in that direction. Or if you tilt your head like this, you'll go off in that direction. So try to keep it nice and neutral and you should be able to go in a straight line. So remember, shoulders under, head back, push. We're going shoulders under, head back, keep your head in a neutral position, little fast kicks. Do lots of repetitions. Practice those skills over and over. The more you do it, the more efficient you will become in the water. Don't worry about doing long, large distances. You can just do eight metres or 10 metres, just short distances with good quality work and then you can progress to longer distances. Remember, most swimming pools that the adult beginner swimmer wants to enjoy, they're not 25 metre pools, they're not 50 metre big pools. They're just little resort pools that you want to enjoy and have fun with. So if you can move and use propulsion over that short distance, you'll feel nice and confident and you'll be able to enjoy time at the pool with your family. So we're going to do streamline kicking. This is where you put your hands together, you streamline like this and keep your chin on your chest. This is a really efficient position because you're nice and streamlined in the water. So you'll propel really efficiently. Now we're going to do kicking on our back. Remember, we want to maintain a really nice buoyant position. So when you push off, you're going to go ears under, tummy up, push, and then the little fast kicks. Remember, it's ears under, tummy up, push, and little fast kicks. Tummy up, push, and little fast. Shoulders under, head back. Shoulders under, head back, push. The last thing we're going to do in this session is use our arms and our legs together. So it will be a type of freestyle drill that will be able to propel you from A to B when you're swimming. What you're going to do is fast kicks and slow arms, okay? Fast kicks and slow arms. We count on a rhythm. So we're going to say one, two, three, four, five, six, change. One, two, three, four, five, six, change. Our arms are slow. One, two, three, four, five, six, change. This is getting you to move through the water. Watch how I'm relaxed with my recovery. One, two, three, four, five, six, change. Nice and relaxed with our recovery. Can you see how I'm actually running my fingers along the water, and I've got a relaxed high elbow recovery. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, change. Breathe in, you're just holding your breath and doing 6 kicks change. Just doing 6 kicks change, holding your breath, counting for 6, relax with your arms. A relaxed recovery, moving slow with your arms and fast with your legs. Let's go. Now you should be to the point where you can move around a small pool, 8 meters, 10 meters, something like that, and enjoy recreation with your family. Now we're going to take a look at that backstroke drill. It's very similar to 6 kicks change with your face in the water, but now we're going to do it with our head out of the water. Just like this. 1 arm up, 1 arm down. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, change your arms. Your arms are relaxed. See this nice, relaxed recovery? And when you come through, you pull the water. Nice, relaxed recovery, and you're going to pull the water. Let's have a look at what it looks like. You can see that if you build skills, you're going to be able to swim on your back probably 25 meters or 50 meters a lot sooner than you will be able to do on your stomach because your face is out of the water and your airway is free, and you can just breathe naturally. So backstroke swimming is great for beginner adults. really easy and you can see by skill building we're moving through the water now we're enjoying swimming and it's so much fun so now what you can do is put these skills together you can go swimming freestyle with your face in the water one way and then you can try coming back on your back the other way so we're putting both freestyle drill and backstroke drill together let's go freestyle backstroke we're doing it learning to swim is all about skill building so in the first video we spoke about floating floating is the basis of all learn to swim in this video we've talked about propulsion so getting the arms and the legs moving so you're actually propelling yourself through the water you're swimming now in our next video we're going to talk to you about the timing of the breathing okay that's really important because then we'll be able to go longer distances I hope you're enjoying these videos remember breath control submersion floating propulsion and learning to breathe that is how we teach swimming to any age group