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Everyone Needs to Swim
by Natalia Wasser
http://www.rdoswimming.com

All of us have run across folks who just absolutely
refuse to learn how to swim. The say things like, "I
can't swim." and "I never learned how to swim." They
remain the same way each day.

Most of us are baffled by this because we all learned
by one method or another. Some of us had the privilege
of having swimming lessons. Others of us were actually
thrown into the water at a young age by our parents in
order to learn it by doing it. Our parents cared and
would have saved us had we not picked it up but they
wanted us to reach out and try it and pick it up by
being forced to apply it. Then some of us learned by
just throwing ourselves in the water when we were at a
lake, pool, or swimming hole.

We wonder if there are those who are healthy but just
don't have the ability to swim. How do you convince a
person with a "can't swim" attitude that they actually
can do it? How can we talk them into it through
reasoning, information, and appealing to their
intellectual side.

What people don't know and scientists have determined
is that everyone has the potential ability to swim
unless they have a physical handicap that prevents it.

How did they determine that?

It goes back to that "learn by doing" concept. You can
appreciate this if you were sitting in an aircraft with
a parachute on. The parachute has been carefully
strapped to your body and you are sitting there waiting
patiently while the plane cruises to a jump altitude.
Then someone in the aircraft briefly points to you the
location to pull on the chute to activate the canopy.
You have not even had time to absorb what he told you
then he pushes you out. Suddenly, you are plunging
through the open air in a state of shock.

Guess what happens next? You're going to get over it,
and you're going to pull that plug. And the parachute
will open, and you will float to land, and there will
be people there to assist you upon landing.

Didn't think you could do it? It's all about the basic
human instinct of self-protection and preservation. We
do NOT want to get hurt or, worse, die. We will do al-
most anything, and our brains will excrete those in-
famous "adrenaline-pumping" cells through our veins,
to help us do whatever we possibly can to survive.

So it is the same with swimming. And, swimming takes on
many simple forms: swimming, treading water, diving,
floating, deep-sea diving, competition swimming,
under-sea exploration, swimming with dolphins, and
other ways. It is an excellent form of recreation and
lets you enjoy water and get exercise too.

So if you have not learned to swim, get out and try it.
Don't listen to your fears. Go for it. You will be
surprised how quickly you can pick it up.

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