Comments on: The Fascination with What’s Difficult

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:26:56 +0000

PS–but I could doggie paddle and float early on, so water safety was there.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 20:25:24 +0000

Naw, anyone can learn. My friend Kate who was a poor swimmer learned well enough to scuba dive this summer off the Great Barrier Reef. Hell, if you can run you can swim. And yeah, we started with blowing bubbles, ring around the rosie, floating, etc. I didn’t learn the crawl until way later.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:33:54 +0000

Hey Amanda, I’m glad to hear you learned this way. I learned to swim using the method where you began with the crawl, and I never got the hang of it. When I was asking the folks at the JCC about this new school, the LK academy rep said that in their research, some kids aren’t coordinated enough to learn kicks, strokes, breathing and floating at the same time and therefore never learn to properly swim. Which described me exactly! I know you are a fish, and I’m tempted to take swim lessons this new way myself. Maybe it’s not so hopeless after all.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:50:26 +0000

That’s interesting–when I learned to swim that’s what we did–floating, survival floating, etc. Years and years ago. Worked for me, I swim like a fish. Don’t give up on the piano (I know you won’t, but putting in my .02 cents)–being able to read music is a very useful skill and piano is good training even if one will never be very good (like me!)