You've made brilliant progress Harry. From the first video a month ago where you didn't even want to get in the pool to almost doing a whole width with fins is such an amazing achievement. I hope you're suitably proud of yourself. Plus the fact you're getting frustrated with yourself at not being able to do that hopefully means you'll keep practising and you'll feel such a buzz when you master it. Keep at it, you won't regret it. Swimming is such a fantastic sport for both your mind (discipline and blocking out anything you're stressed about as you're just concentrating on getting all the elements of the stroke aligned) and body (health benefits of exercise). Go Harry!
2 years it took me to swim proficiently. Very confident now in open water. Was swimming a mile a day last week on hols in the Med. Last day swam 200m out to the usual buoy in the bay. Didnt notice the lifeguards had changed the beach flag to yellow. Had a helluva time trying to get back in. Started to panic, remembered "float to live" flipped on my back got my strength back and just made shore.
This was an incredibly useful series. I am going to use this in my swimming journey. I am not kidding myself and expecting it will be done in a few days. I expect months of practice before being able to swim decently.
I taught myself how to swim over the past few months since about when I turned 30. I was learned breast stroke. Looking back on my experience as a child in swim class and consistently failing, I think the issue was that they didn’t teach buoyancy control. They only taught how to blow bubbles which made me sink. So for most of my adult life, I always believed I was a sinker. The second issue is that they never explicitly taught how to balance in the water. They did teach the starfish but who swims in the starfish position? Aside from buoyancy control learning that if I extend my arms overhead like in the breast stroke gliding position, I can actually keep my legs from falling down which used to make swimming very hard.
Great work Harry! You are coming along great mate. It’s a funny old thing swimming. You’ll think that you will never be able to do everything then one day out of the blue it will just click. I promise you! Keep going because you are making so much progress and are so close to cracking it.
The anxiety, panic and fear of letting go of the side or rail. I have been there and still deal with that. I see Harry's journey the same as mine. I can swim ok but I am still working through these items. The start of the race is what I am going through now but it's coming along and I feel I did ok on last race with the group start. Harry is doing fantastic in the arms of a very patient teacher Mark. Bravo to both.
This is so nice :) If I taught someone how to swim, the first things I would do is to work on using their lungs and shoulderblades as a buoy to horizontally balance around while relaxing. First on the back face up, and then on the front face down into the water with arms touching the poolside. Holding breath, then tilting head up to take a new breath and then back face into the water. It's all about comfortably handling the combination of breathing, relaxing and staying horizontal as default. Can then progress into turning the body back and forth from face up/down while maintaining horizontal position. Once this is achieved all you have to do is start propelling yourself
I agree with this particularly the floating part. I had swum for years and realised I could hard float whatsoever and had no idea how to use my body position or lungs to do a mushroom float or a horizontal float. I have just learnt it this year and it has improved my swimming so much. No-one had ever taught me how to float - so sometimes the super super basics are needed.
It's easy to say you would teach on the back face up first, but on an earlier video it was clear that Harry wasn't comfortable with trying to float on his back at all. Instead, they adapted so they could find an alternative route to progress. Repeatedly trying to force someone to learn something which is scary/uncomfortable can just make someone give up and increase their fear - these videos are a great example of teaching by building up confidence and not just focusing on the "correct order" to do things.
The best part of learning a new skill is how tangible the results are at the beginning! I'm still a new-ish swimmer, and I shaved about 25% off my 1 Miles swim time this year. It is awesome, but I don't expect to get the same improvement going forward. These are fun to watch.
Thanks for this series! Hard relate as a friend dared me to enter a triathlon when I couldn’t even swim…a few panic attacks and two sprint triathlons later, swimming has become my favourite exercise. Well done Harry, such a great example to your daughter that anything is possible! 💪
In Oz, we just take it for granted that everyone can swim. It’s just the speed that differs. I guess it’s just like learning a new language - you learn small bits but harder to put a full story together. Good stuff Harry.
Yep, when someone in Australia says they can’t swim (like me) it just means their technique is not ideal and they’re slow… I can’t imagine how hard it must be to learn from scratch as an adult! I’m having a hard enough time trying to correct years worth of bad technique
Well done Harry, you've got a great teacher, I'm inspired to keep working through the difficult period of combining all the different things to think about too!
I realised that I have to put the effort for months before I get the technique right, then different styles and gain confidence to swim on my own without supervision. Am 55 and have just been to 6 classes
Great job, swimming is such a difficult sport! I've been swimming for years and I'm nowhere near were I want to be. But it's ok as long as progress is made, and this was the case.
this is all great advice, sometimes I just gently tread water in the deep end because I love the feeling of being upright with no pool bottom below, its relaxing and liberating. Being relaxed and condifent in the water is a great aid to swimming and stops you getting tired and discouraged.
@@yashobantadash6670I was a good swimming when I was 7 like good but then my feets slipped I tried to maintain control but I was out of breath then I just fall down without even swimming for 5 years :(
Great progress and thank you for doing this as I don't feel so alone anymore in my journey. I have the same problem as Harry. As soon as I try to do all 3 together, I find the timing the breathing hard so I'm lifting my head and losing my buoyant body position. Floating is also much harder with a slightly curved lower back than the average person
Well done Harry you are doing so well Keep up the good work. I had swimming lessons almost two years ago And I'm still learning to swim even though I don't have lessons anymore 😊
Are they in deeper water this episode? Harry is doing well for such a short time. I'm 67 and learning to use my arms, breathing as well, it is hard, but I'll keep at it until I get it.
I can swim well but I still love and appreciate this series.
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with kick, sometimes I like to put my butt to work, like really rotate from hips a lot and use a lot of power, it's exhausting so I do full power like 2 25s with a break between (and rest of kick with much less power focusing on doing proper movement) but it feels great and it's soooo cool to move faster than lot of people normally swim
Out of curiosity, why did you start with freestyle? In my experience most beginners start with breast stroke and to me it feels easier to learn the coordination of breast stroke.
Are you planning to teach him how to tread water? I learned how to swim as an adult, and I am not afraid of water anymore and can swim in deep water. But I still can't do treading water at all. Had multiple private coaches but no one knew why I couldn't. Would like to see his journey on learning treading water.
Facing the same problem like Harry from the first vid, im scared to swim and still have tht trauma from me drowning and i unable to get back up..I got classes once a week, how do i calm myself down before lessons😅🙏🏻
When I learnt how to swim as an adult I was stuck at this exact place for a long time for some reason it just took lots of practice and then the timing for the breathing just started to make sense. It took ages this was the worst bit
When I was a toddler i nearly drowned so mate I’m still scared I mean I can swim in your local holiday pool from side to side but not very good or it has to be in the shallow end
He is mentally scared of exhaling under water and having to come up for air. I had the same problem. Practice at the edge of the pool breathing under and turning to take a breath on each side. DONT GIVE UP!
Watching this video because I just applied for a job that requires an efficient swimmer and I'm a bit rusty lmaoooo the things I do for $15/hr as a college student in summer
The modern definition of swimming is "feeling safe and comfortable in the water, even in deep water, and having the ability to propel yourself forward confidently." Unfortunately, many swim lessons, like this one, still use outdated methods designed for children to teach adults. The biggest problem with this approach is that it fails to address the students' fears by not teaching them to trust themselves and feel safe in the water first. . A much better method involves teaching floating to the level that the student becomes competent and confident in the water. Gentle kicks help maintain streamline position. Only when floating well, and the student is ready, do you introduce strokes. Stroke movements should firstly be practiced outside the pool to get the feel of the action before then practiced walking in the water. Breathing is introduced after the student is comfortable with floating and stroking, and can be practiced at the side of the pool, then walking in the pool, and finally added to the floating and strokes. . SCL - Student Comfort Level, needs to be considered at every step. In this video series it is obvious the SCL is very low at each stage. The student lack confidence and showing signs of fear. The lesson should only move to the next stage when the SCL is high. . Flotation devices and fins, commonly used with children, can actually hinder adult learning. Because they feel they need them to swim, they don’t learn to trust themselves so the student doesn’t lose their fear of the water. By using modern methodologies, adults can learn to swim competently and safely in days, not weeks or months. . Graham - Adult Learn to Swim Specialist & Aquaphobia Coach
You've made brilliant progress Harry. From the first video a month ago where you didn't even want to get in the pool to almost doing a whole width with fins is such an amazing achievement. I hope you're suitably proud of yourself. Plus the fact you're getting frustrated with yourself at not being able to do that hopefully means you'll keep practising and you'll feel such a buzz when you master it. Keep at it, you won't regret it. Swimming is such a fantastic sport for both your mind (discipline and blocking out anything you're stressed about as you're just concentrating on getting all the elements of the stroke aligned) and body (health benefits of exercise). Go Harry!
It is really nice that on this video, there is no pretending from the learner 😍. It is so natural and honest video. Love it ❤
2 years it took me to swim proficiently. Very confident now in open water. Was swimming a mile a day last week on hols in the Med. Last day swam 200m out to the usual buoy in the bay. Didnt notice the lifeguards had changed the beach flag to yellow. Had a helluva time trying to get back in. Started to panic, remembered "float to live" flipped on my back got my strength back and just made shore.
Phew! Great tip on 'float to live'.
Kudos to Harry! Mark seems like a good teacher, very patient.
This was an incredibly useful series. I am going to use this in my swimming journey. I am not kidding myself and expecting it will be done in a few days. I expect months of practice before being able to swim decently.
Ah the none linear journey of learning to swim. Tremendous effort and resilience.
I taught myself how to swim over the past few months since about when I turned 30. I was learned breast stroke.
Looking back on my experience as a child in swim class and consistently failing, I think the issue was that they didn’t teach buoyancy control. They only taught how to blow bubbles which made me sink. So for most of my adult life, I always believed I was a sinker.
The second issue is that they never explicitly taught how to balance in the water. They did teach the starfish but who swims in the starfish position? Aside from buoyancy control learning that if I extend my arms overhead like in the breast stroke gliding position, I can actually keep my legs from falling down which used to make swimming very hard.
Great work Harry! You are coming along great mate. It’s a funny old thing swimming. You’ll think that you will never be able to do everything then one day out of the blue it will just click. I promise you! Keep going because you are making so much progress and are so close to cracking it.
Swimming is very hard. Harry has done a great job and Mark is just an awesome teacher.
The anxiety, panic and fear of letting go of the side or rail. I have been there and still deal with that. I see Harry's journey the same as mine. I can swim ok but I am still working through these items. The start of the race is what I am going through now but it's coming along and I feel I did ok on last race with the group start. Harry is doing fantastic in the arms of a very patient teacher Mark. Bravo to both.
This is so nice :)
If I taught someone how to swim, the first things I would do is to work on using their lungs and shoulderblades as a buoy to horizontally balance around while relaxing. First on the back face up, and then on the front face down into the water with arms touching the poolside. Holding breath, then tilting head up to take a new breath and then back face into the water. It's all about comfortably handling the combination of breathing, relaxing and staying horizontal as default.
Can then progress into turning the body back and forth from face up/down while maintaining horizontal position.
Once this is achieved all you have to do is start propelling yourself
I agree with this particularly the floating part. I had swum for years and realised I could hard float whatsoever and had no idea how to use my body position or lungs to do a mushroom float or a horizontal float. I have just learnt it this year and it has improved my swimming so much. No-one had ever taught me how to float - so sometimes the super super basics are needed.
It's easy to say you would teach on the back face up first, but on an earlier video it was clear that Harry wasn't comfortable with trying to float on his back at all. Instead, they adapted so they could find an alternative route to progress. Repeatedly trying to force someone to learn something which is scary/uncomfortable can just make someone give up and increase their fear - these videos are a great example of teaching by building up confidence and not just focusing on the "correct order" to do things.
The best part of learning a new skill is how tangible the results are at the beginning! I'm still a new-ish swimmer, and I shaved about 25% off my 1 Miles swim time this year. It is awesome, but I don't expect to get the same improvement going forward. These are fun to watch.
Thanks!
Thanks for this series! Hard relate as a friend dared me to enter a triathlon when I couldn’t even swim…a few panic attacks and two sprint triathlons later, swimming has become my favourite exercise. Well done Harry, such a great example to your daughter that anything is possible! 💪
In Oz, we just take it for granted that everyone can swim. It’s just the speed that differs. I guess it’s just like learning a new language - you learn small bits but harder to put a full story together. Good stuff Harry.
Yep, when someone in Australia says they can’t swim (like me) it just means their technique is not ideal and they’re slow… I can’t imagine how hard it must be to learn from scratch as an adult! I’m having a hard enough time trying to correct years worth of bad technique
Well done Harry, you've got a great teacher, I'm inspired to keep working through the difficult period of combining all the different things to think about too!
aww what you guys do is amazing. love the swimming and running videos .keep up the good work😁
Thank you!
This has been such a great series
I realised that I have to put the effort for months before I get the technique right, then different styles and gain confidence to swim on my own without supervision. Am 55 and have just been to 6 classes
He has come so far in 3 lessons! Combining everything together is really hard.
its been three weeks and i still struggle
Great job, swimming is such a difficult sport! I've been swimming for years and I'm nowhere near were I want to be. But it's ok as long as progress is made, and this was the case.
this is all great advice, sometimes I just gently tread water in the deep end because I love the feeling of being upright with no pool bottom below, its relaxing and liberating. Being relaxed and condifent in the water is a great aid to swimming and stops you getting tired and discouraged.
Well done harry im 30 and re-learning to swim you’ve gave me goals to aim for I’ve had 3 lessons and noticing the difference so keep going
😢 I'm same with him... Very difficult.... I'm learning to swim at the age of 33, i hope i can learn. I'm dreaming to become a good swimmer...
Good luck!
Same here😊
@@yashobantadash6670I was a good swimming when I was 7 like good but then my feets slipped I tried to maintain control but I was out of breath then I just fall down without even swimming for 5 years :(
Same here. I am 32 just started learning. ❤
Great progress and thank you for doing this as I don't feel so alone anymore in my journey. I have the same problem as Harry. As soon as I try to do all 3 together, I find the timing the breathing hard so I'm lifting my head and losing my buoyant body position. Floating is also much harder with a slightly curved lower back than the average person
Well done Harry you are doing so well
Keep up the good work.
I had swimming lessons almost two years ago
And I'm still learning to swim even though I don't have lessons anymore
😊
Are they in deeper water this episode?
Harry is doing well for such a short time.
I'm 67 and learning to use my arms, breathing as well, it is hard, but I'll keep at it until I get it.
teach him to flip on his back in case of panic, so he won't be afraid of swimming far away from the end of pool
Indeed! Floating like a 'sea star', belly up!
That is what I was thinking aswell. Floating on your back and treading water.
Great idea - we'll let Mark know
I concur. I'd do a few more "fun things" in the shallow end. Cannonball!!!
Treading water is tougher than swimming
Great progress! Maybe try a swim snorkel as well, it really helps to get the stroke timing right without worrying about breathing.
I'm struggling with timing brraths too. Great series
Good and useful video, what manufacturer is the steering wheel I saw in the video?
I can swim well but I still love and appreciate this series.
with kick, sometimes I like to put my butt to work, like really rotate from hips a lot and use a lot of power, it's exhausting so I do full power like 2 25s with a break between (and rest of kick with much less power focusing on doing proper movement) but it feels great and it's soooo cool to move faster than lot of people normally swim
Good job! He is swimming better with the technics
He's doing great 🙌What's the next move for Harry do you think?
I watched all 3 videos wow man this is inspiring.
Out of curiosity, why did you start with freestyle? In my experience most beginners start with breast stroke and to me it feels easier to learn the coordination of breast stroke.
I have the same question. It’s frustrating
Did this guy ever graduate to swimming well independently? I can’t find episode 4 and I’m stuck in this stage for a long time and can’t progress
Are you planning to teach him how to tread water? I learned how to swim as an adult, and I am not afraid of water anymore and can swim in deep water. But I still can't do treading water at all. Had multiple private coaches but no one knew why I couldn't. Would like to see his journey on learning treading water.
That's really interesting! Stay posted and you might pick some tips up 🙌
Same
Congratulations Harry! I liked doing doggy paddle, breaststroke and backstroke over freestyle.
Well done Harry. Lrarning to swim in the pool is hard. Swimming in salt water is easier cos of all the buoyancy.
Can you upload an HD version ?
We will do - clearly we got a bit excited trying to get to the pool on Friday 🫣
Nice work GCN & Harry
Thanks! We're super happy to see Harry's progress 🙌
Facing the same problem like Harry from the first vid, im scared to swim and still have tht trauma from me drowning and i unable to get back up..I got classes once a week, how do i calm myself down before lessons😅🙏🏻
Where's episode 4?
thanks for the tips
where’s the rest of this series? Did he continue?
He’s doing great!
He's smashing it 🙌
I started Learn to swim lessons last year at my mid 30s. Now Im swimming in open waters. I'm just afraid to encounter box jelly fish.
I think most swimmers are! Well done - any big swims planned?
@@gtn I'm currently training for a local triathlon event next week! It's my first tri event so I'm really excited.
When I learnt how to swim as an adult I was stuck at this exact place for a long time for some reason it just took lots of practice and then the timing for the breathing just started to make sense. It took ages this was the worst bit
When I was a toddler i nearly drowned so mate I’m still scared I mean I can swim in your local holiday pool from side to side but not very good or it has to be in the shallow end
Ep 4 ?
He is mentally scared of exhaling under water and having to come up for air. I had the same problem. Practice at the edge of the pool breathing under and turning to take a breath on each side. DONT GIVE UP!
Watching this video because I just applied for a job that requires an efficient swimmer and I'm a bit rusty lmaoooo the things I do for $15/hr as a college student in summer
what if your still 14?
why are you shooting this in 480p. even phones nowadays will do 1080p minimum
Sorry, there must have been some error in publishing
We'll get this fixed - there was an error on upload that we didn't spot sadly!
Great videos! Please show the instructor doing it correctly too!
Should've given recovery from backstroke/ backfloat.
The modern definition of swimming is "feeling safe and comfortable in the water, even in deep water, and having the ability to propel yourself forward confidently." Unfortunately, many swim lessons, like this one, still use outdated methods designed for children to teach adults. The biggest problem with this approach is that it fails to address the students' fears by not teaching them to trust themselves and feel safe in the water first.
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A much better method involves teaching floating to the level that the student becomes competent and confident in the water. Gentle kicks help maintain streamline position. Only when floating well, and the student is ready, do you introduce strokes. Stroke movements should firstly be practiced outside the pool to get the feel of the action before then practiced walking in the water. Breathing is introduced after the student is comfortable with floating and stroking, and can be practiced at the side of the pool, then walking in the pool, and finally added to the floating and strokes.
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SCL - Student Comfort Level, needs to be considered at every step. In this video series it is obvious the SCL is very low at each stage. The student lack confidence and showing signs of fear. The lesson should only move to the next stage when the SCL is high.
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Flotation devices and fins, commonly used with children, can actually hinder adult learning. Because they feel they need them to swim, they don’t learn to trust themselves so the student doesn’t lose their fear of the water. By using modern methodologies, adults can learn to swim competently and safely in days, not weeks or months.
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Graham - Adult Learn to Swim Specialist & Aquaphobia Coach
With how fat I am I will be drowning in no time
First!