Conquer Your Fear of Water: An Innovative Self-Discovery Course in Swimming - Couverture souple

Dash, Melon

 
9781420864441: Conquer Your Fear of Water: An Innovative Self-Discovery Course in Swimming

Synopsis

Have you tried to learn to swim? Fear prevents it! For adults, overcoming fear is the key to learning to swim. You can overcome fear without doing frightening things. Learn how to rely on yourself for your safety rather than on the bottom or the side. That is the meaning of learning to swim. 

Perfect technique? That's for efficiency after you’ve learned to be at ease. First, master the nuts and bolts of being comfortable in water. Once you feel comfortable, you can learn basic skills like floating, getting up from a float and the numerous other skills taught with no stone left unturned. Learn all the essentials, proven over 37 years and unavailable elsewhere. Strokes are not relevant and are not taught.

You’re in good company with the vast population of adults that has a fear of water over their heads--109 million adults in the U.S. All can learn to swim if they start at the beginning and skip no steps. The steps just may be something you never considered! 

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Do you wish you could swim, have fun and exercise in water wherever you go? Get to the heart of the problem. Anyone can learn to swim once he or she overcomes fear. Overcoming fear requires understanding what being in complete control in water feels like. It requires understanding the steps of loss of control and the simple way to keep it. It is easy. Chances are, you’ve never heard of these steps. But everyone recognizes them when they see them in this book. They are universal steps. They are the universal steps of learning. You cannot fail to learn to swim using these steps. (You cannot fail to learn anything using these steps.) What is swimming? First, it’s confidence in water. If you haven’t learned strokes and breathing, chances are you don’t feel safe. Feeling safe—knowing how to remain in control and prevent panic—is your next step. Once you master your safety, you can learn any stroke you desire because you’re no longer focused on survival. Conquer Your Fear of Water advances these ideas: 1. Learning to swim requires comfort and confidence in water first. 2. Learning to swim—to be reliable for your safety in water—comes before learning strokes. 3. Learning to swim and learning strokes are two different processes. 4. Overcoming fear is a simple, fascinating personal process. 5. Overcoming fear and learning to swim is fun. 6. If you start at the beginning and skip no steps, you cannot fail to overcome fear and learn to swim. Every step you need is presented in the book. Formal strokes are not part of this book. Readers wrote: "I really like that you stress having fun first and being comfortable…. The book is full of fantastic advice. It’s working for me. I now know I will not pass on my fear to my children. You will make a difference in millions of lives." —D.K. "This book is very, very impressive and leaves no doubt in my mind why your system works. The book does a tremendous job of sharing your method. The concepts, the language, and the detailed steps… are easy to understand. You anticipate and explain in great detail a lot of the things that happen in the water that scare novices. Your book answered a lot of questions I have had, and explained a lot of what I have experienced in the water." —S.N. No matter where you are with your swimming today, it’s just the right place to begin. To move from here to there in water with ease and the ability to stop and rest without needing the bottom or the side of the pool, start at the beginning and skip no steps. This course has been honed since 1983 by Miracle Swimming Institute / 21st Century Swimming Lessons, Inc. in Berkeley, California and Sarasota, Florida. It is now in 19 cities around the world. It sets a new standard for all teaching.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fear prevents people from learning to swim. Learning to swim is not just about arms and legs. First, it’s about the nuts and bolts of full presence of mind. You can't overcome fear or learn to swim if you panic. Learning the nuts and bolts fear and mindfulness is the subject of this book. Once you’re peaceful, safe, and happy in water, you can learn basic skills like putting your face in, floating, getting up from a float, all of which are in the book along with numerous other skills. Strokes are not covered: strokes are merely choreography—irrelevant to overcoming fear. This book is a paradigm shift in teaching swimming.

  • Demystify the learn-to-swim process: it’s not what the public thinks
  • Learn how to be comfortable in water all the time: you never have to push yourself
  • Gain complete control in water: it has nothing to do with strokes
  • Become safe, happy, and at ease in water, shallow and deep: learn how the water works
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