When I was young, my mom decided I needed to learn how to swim. She didn’t know herself, so she asked the rather large woman next door to teach me. The problem is (though I didn’t know it at 6 years old), that I don’t float above water. Really. I even sink in salt water pools. She kept trying to teach me to float on my back and I kept going under. She’d kept saying, “You’re just not relaxing. Now watch me.” After two or three hour+ sessions of this, they finally gave that effort up.
When I was young, my mom decided I needed to learn how to swim. She didn’t know herself, so she asked the rather large woman next door to teach me. The problem is (though I didn’t know it at 6 years old), that I don’t float above water. Really. I even sink in salt water pools. She kept trying to teach me to float on my back and I kept going under. She’d kept saying, “You’re just not relaxing. Now watch me.” After two or three hour+ sessions of this, they finally gave that effort up.