How to Swim for Beginners | Easy Step by Step Techniques | Complete Beginner

hi my name is balaji i've never been in water before very soon i was kind of thinking all i saw was a very black thing before me and i saw a very thin white line and i thought this is end of me and i gave now all we're going to do at bellagio right now is let him just walk and get used to how the water is going to feel and how it actually pushes you around a little bit you feel it's much thicker than air is [Music] so well i just feel free to take about maybe 10 steps or so that way to walk on the wall just get comfortable get used to use your hands if you like in the water if you want to if you all water pushes you around all right come on turn around come back to me how to feel uh it feels okay so far yeah it feels a little weird but yes yes good good okay still not the most comfortable for you i mean it's different yeah it's good all right very different feeling and and if those of you out there just beginning start in the water just walk waist deep walk walk walk you get comfortable enough maybe chest teeth i wouldn't recommend anything over your head to start off with i would go probably waste people water you just get used to walking moving feel the water start moving your arms around and you'll start feeling more and more comfortable in the water environment it's very very different than what it is up there and it could be scary to you also and we acknowledge that we're glad that he's here so now if he's ready to now first thing is to put the face in the water and if you have a hard time with that in a pool you can start in a sink at your house you can use a bathtub you can use a hot tub you can use whatever you need a bucket of water if you needed to she said he used to put your face in something [Music] an issue that most people have is water going up the nose or water going inside the mouth because the breathing is such a scary thing for a lot of people we're gonna make it simple for you all right first things first we're making airtight airtight watertight we're gonna have you take a really really big breath don't put your face in the water just take the biggest breath you can hold that wrap now try to sniff sniff some air all right breathe it out were you able to sniff anything up through your nose after i uh fully took a breath i didn't have enough enough lung capacity to to breathe more very good what belaji did is he inhaled to the point where he's got two life jackets in here two inflatable life jack life preservers and there are your lungs he filled them up once they're already full there's no more room so even if he tried to breathe in more air through the nose you're not able to so now we're airtight and we're water we'll cover the actual breathing and releasing of the air later right now it's important to make them airtight watertight so that being said and you've been comfortable enough now at home working in your sink working in a bathtub and you're ready for the pool you've walked around a little bit now this could be weeks this could be months for some of you be patient do not get frustrated and practice so next step for bellagio is going to be holding his breath now putting his face in i want to make sure you all just don't get frustrated think that you're all going to do it in one day likely you're not going to it's not going to happen that way but it's possible but let's do it the right way step by step by step we're not going to move ahead to step number two or three until we master step number one we're not going to move to step number four or five until we master steps one two and three hopefully that's clear now that we've got we've gotten bellagio comfortable in the water and he's walking around a little bit he feels we're supposed to feel like he's ready and he already held his breath and showed us that he couldn't put any more air in the nose now we're going to put the face in the water we're going to let him stand in fact i'll even have bellagio hold onto the wall right here the gutter so he has some stability and when i say i'll go first i'm going to take a giant breath of my face in the water like with my ears underwater comfortably for five seconds i'll count in my head but here it goes ready big breath first ears under as i came up from the water you notice air only had one direction to go which way out there was no way it was going to go in which means no air is going in no water's going in it only goes out very comfortable collage you ready yes big step right here hit on the wall be comfortable two if you want whatever take the biggest breath you can face in ears under one two three four five come back up blow it out anything up your nose no anything inside your mouth no beautiful very much semi it was very it was when i went in you feel like i'm going to come up myself i don't know why but it was good well i'll explain why because he filled up his lungs there's no way you're going to stay down if your lungs are full i wouldn't float the easiest but watch what even i do i'm gonna float for i'm gonna tuck myself up in a ball and i'm gonna float i'm gonna have bellagi push me down with both hands like i'm a basketball he's gonna let go watch what happens to me and i'm a pretty big six foot three 220 pounds watch when i float push me down and then watch what happens [Music] now what happened what bellagio just experienced himself he felt the water push himself back up i just proved to you what happens as long as your lungs are full that can happen but watch what happens when i let out the air of my lungs no need to push me down this one it's going to happen by itself watch just that activity of releasing air out of my lungs what happened my buoyancy diminished and there i went down [Music] the next step for us is going to be having bellagi floating in the water and we call it a starfish float it's also known as a prone float my dad is referred to as the big tree with the branches up but it's going to be a floating potion like this i'll take a big breath first my face will go in my arms will extend and i should float and actually move a little bit it's kind of cool now again i floated because my lungs were full it allows you to your turn ready for this arms up just like this do make sure if i i've got you arms up float towards me take the biggest breath you can float to me put your ears under one two three four five good come on out how'd you do i don't know what it did anything up your nose anything inside your mouth nope we're just somewhat pleasant it is a little better now good enough good enough now listen i'm going to make one adjustment now for bellagio what i've noticed is his head is actually too low in the water and his hands and arms are out of the water we're going to have those hands and arms floating in the water they're going to float because you're much lighter in the water than you are out of the water and in physics every action has an equal and opposite reaction if something is up something else is going to go down it's going to be usually his legs so right now let's not put your head so far in the water in fact it's okay to have the very back your head just barely almost top of the surface just your ears under big breath hands in the water relax one two three four five now what melaji just did was he just traveled about maybe four or five yards on his own without any kind of propulsion just to push off the bottom was the only one floating a little bit no kicking no pulling he's moving on top of the water if you've noticed so far we've worked on getting cut from the water moving around feeling what the water does to your body we've talked about and worked on holding your breath taking a big enough breath that you can make yourself airtight and water tight you've seen bellagi float and actually move without much effort at all floating in the top of the water now we're going to get him to float even better we're better from this position now we're going to it's called the prone position now we're going to be in what's called the streamline position we say hand over hand doesn't matter which hand i say two pancakes one on top of the other lock down that top thumb does that feel better for you which one is better which one that one now hide your ears chin down a little bit neutral position stand up straight there's there is our streamlined position we're going to do that now off the bottom of the pole [Music] let me know when you're ready take a big breath you keep those fingers right there on the surface but just under the water on top of the water make sense for five seconds big breath float one two three four five oh he stood up on his own now if you noticed towards the very end what kind of messed them up a little bit it was balance the only way you get better at this is by practicing it so number one be patient number two don't get frustrated number three you gotta practice he's gonna do it again this second time in his life just now coming up right now will be better than the first time you just saw the first time in his life ready for this arms up hide those ears neutral position head beautiful two pancakes locking down the top thumb i love it hide those ears watch this big float to me hold that balance go one two three four five look at that comfortable more than last time more than last time it's the second time in his life more comfortable than the last time which was the first time in his life to do this thing now guess we're gonna do third time and do it again good good arms up hide those ears just get used to the water kind of pushing around fingers like this yep and put those fingers on top of the water not above the water put it put them just sitting on the water big breath float one two look down three four five good stand up and he's standing up all by himself if you notice what he's doing to stand up he picked this up on his own just now folks he's bringing those knees up to the chest and what happens is you automatically will go upright in the water i'll do it right here for you watch you can't help it you bring the knees up your body goes upright those feet go to the bottom stand right up if you're in shallow enough water now bellagi you've never swam before correct folks this is not rehearsed this is not pre-recorded another this is real it's today right now we're learning this stuff the lodge never swam near drowning experience last summer in a lake petrified of the water here we are right now on the very first day back in the pool with him now we're going to have him push off the wall next and do the same type of floating and let's just see how far you go in five seconds we'll have him stand up again all by himself if you're nervous about the standing up part have somebody with you or if you'd like you can actually do it let's do it this way instead tell you what arms up face this way we'll have bellagio do it into the wall and once he touches the wall he can use the gutter then to stand up on his own without needing any assistance big breath stretch out tall keep moving eyes down good there's the wall right there look that we're coming off wow um i think i didn't think that i'd become this far but when i'm in there i feel like i'm going side to side i'm going to practice a lot because you're putting yourself in an elongated position so there's less of you to stabilize yourself and so really what you'll learn to use is the middle part of your muscles in here to help keep yourself nice and flat on top of that water we're going to watch this again slide back on the second line second line you got it big breath nice and steady one two look at this and there's the wall oh yeah much much better if i use my horse to steer myself much much better i like the fact his legs are up nice and high in the water because his head is right where it needs to be and his arms where it needs to be so he's nice and steady across that water now let's take the next step we saw the lodging now learning how to move in the water so now we're going to add a little bit of propulsion on the back end of his body with his feet [Music] notice we're not going to go crazy with the legs and go nuts with this thing just nice little floppy feet relax now real quick if you don't mind have a seat up here perfect what we see from a lot of folks is what's called a dorsiflexed foot dorsiflex you can't go very far and be very effective kicking with your feet up like this you need your feet to become more like fins more like flippers and flip that water off the tops of your feet off the tops and you see where that water's gone flip the water on top of your teeth look i'm not really working that hard doing this it's really a lot of ankle flexion now what i do when i'm teaching younger kids if you can't have some fun with this right here i kind of make fun of their feet right and i kind of go make some squeaky noises so they all they'll start laughing and i saw gotta ask the oil so we add oil on the ankles to teach them that this is really important the floppy feet you like to say flop your feet big toe fights not a lot of legs stretch out your legs give you some nice floppy feet like this up and down now you can get anything up close we'll power this right here keep on going you want water to flick to flip off the tops of your toenails watch underwater barely boil the water boil it go faster that's what you want to do we're going to redirect the water keep going look what's happening that's proving that he's actually trying to redirect the water that direction now if he's swimming that direction which way is the water going to go that way this is a whipped bread this whole thing right here is a whip and at the end that's where all the energy you want to get to be released so starts here a little bit there a little bit there a little bit there by the time it's coming off the end you've got some power coming off the top of those toenails understand stretch out nice and tall and you're gonna kick i'll go first for about five seconds ready [Applause] now i'm going to lift bellagi up after five seconds i'll count loud you'll hear me one two three four five and i'll grab your arms and lift you up don't worry about a thing you just do this you keep those feet behind you trying to shove water that way and i want you to be confident that no matter what happens in five seconds i'm lifting you up deal okay big breath long legs fast feet two three four five stand up [Applause] look turn around oh my god pretty cool let's go do it again that was so good that was really cool i've never seen someone pick up kicking like that that was so good so what you thought what you thought was really really helpful the whipped thing so start your energy from your hip from your thighs and just transfer it to the legs and then just throw it away it's very helpful off the toenails right i'm gonna try it again before we go hold on before we go melody you think you can hold your breath for 10 seconds yes or no i'm ready to try without even going in the water just now standing on standing in the pool here with his half his body out of the water we're going to go ahead i'm going to count to 10 while you hold your breath let me know when you're ready go no no no no need to go in the water stand up and do it big breath hold it one two three four five six seven eight nine ten let out the air easy i gotta go more sure he could go more where it is for ten seconds he's just gonna stretch out tall and he's gonna kick like he just kicked which was really really good by the way for 10 seconds let's see what happens after 10 seconds i will lift him up no matter what i'll you'll hear me counting yes hide those ears big breath stretch out tall long legs fast feet one two three four five six seven eight nine nine and a half ten what really it's pretty i i'm very i'm i'm unbelievable i can't believe it's pretty good very good his face in the water stretched out nice and tall legs nice and tall a lot of action around his ankles and his toes love it now we're gonna go ahead and add the arms now we're gonna add the arm we're gonna do five arms what we call freestyle also known as crawl stroke the freestyle stroke just like it looks just like that now he's never done that before in his life never done it right never never so we're gonna do this when one arm gets wet i want this arm getting dried off when this arm gets wet i want this time getting dried off oh when this arm gets wet i want this arm getting dried off now it's not so important that balaji is just pulling his arms back i want bloody to think about what he's trying to accomplish which is what move his vessel move his boat move his body forward through the water as stretched out as he can be tall swimming long legs a little bit of feet just fine five big arms stand up i'll stand you up after five arms [Music] keep your head right there down in the water ears are under is my head moving around keep the head steady the head starts moving around every action equal opposite reaction if the head's moving there's another part of the body that's doing the opposite we don't want that nice and steady nice and straight like a long cruise ship five big arms out of the water arms dried off arms five times we'll stand him up i've never seen him do this before he's never done it before let's just see what it looks like and and should it be like fully rotation or just i like big arms right now i like i like bigger than normal arms for the first time doing this as long as they're out of the water clearing out of the water i'll be happy as a clam here we go watch this five arms when you're ready take your time stretch out nice and tall legs are straight five arms i'll lift you up big breath stretch out tall one two three four five stand up there you are this time i didn't use my legs at all i need you i was fully focusing on you don't need to use the legs that hard even at all if your head's in the right position your body's in the right position and your arm do what they're supposed to do now in a few moments from now we'll work on the whole breathing thing but not until we get him to float on his back so let's practice a few more time with the five arms get him really comfortable with this and then we're gonna float him on his back that's the next step in the process so we'll do five arms again start from there come this way five arms stretch out nice and tall i'll pick you up after five arms look down one two three four five good amazing very good very good let me know you're ready again it feels very good when you teach me i don't folks i don't care to say these things either i'm not paying them anything we're here because we love being here ready five arms eyes down legs straight stretch out tall one two three four five stand up now i'm going to make a correction here when balaji is stretching forward he's waiting a little bit with his hand above the water we don't want that it's not going to help him objects in motion tend to stay in motion so we want his object to stay in motion when that arm goes in let's pull the trigger there's no sense of waiting out there especially above the water even for a split second make sense watch this the reason i'm doing this is because you told me one arm dry up right so when i come here i try to make sure i lift this and then put it that's why i that's it that's why if you're gonna wait at all put the hand in the water okay put the hand in the water let me know i'll tell you what we're gonna go maybe i can do seven we're going to the wall don't i'll stop before you get the wall i'll stop you before you hit the wall take your time stretch out nice and tall long legs out of the water arms stretch out tall one wow look at this oh my goodness now if you notice bellagio looks a little bit different right now we put on a pair of goggles we might be here for a little bit today to teach him more and more uh further his advancement further skills in swimming so right now you know that we took him though from fearful of the water near drowning experience last summer in the water walking around feeling comfortable proper holding the breath facing the water no water up the nose no water inside the mouth basic floating streamline floating floating with kicking and now adding the arms where he's going to go all the way across this pool right now we're going to go across the width of the pool it's about 25 feet right now so for 25 feet he's going to swim across allows you there's four lines in the bottom of this pool there's four lines once you cross the fourth line reach for the wall that way you're not going to run into with your head all right take your time eyes down and if you notice we have not yet even addressed anything about how to breathe while we're swimming this is all done right now on one breath only that's coming so look for that another one of these segments coming up big grab stretch out nice and tall drive off there's the third line there's the fourth line got it i feel like i'm a fish never felt this before and never never never felt this before good that's awesome i love that you said you feel like a fish that's awesome now the next step to to introduce i guess a pre-step into breathing while we're swimming is we're going to get malaji on his back floating and then moving on his back belaji says no way we are in for a challenge he says you guys can't do this i'm warning you i'm horrible on my back i can't do it we're going to see if he listens to what we're saying and does what we ask him to do we're going to be able to nail this thing cool [Music] wax first we're going to do a goggles on put both hands up on that wall and turn around the other way backwards now you're going to put both knees up on the wall and you're going to fold your feet down like my feet are folded down right now you see that johnny let's get that video now the reason why i want the feet folded down like that and not in this position because when someone releases from the wall with their feet in this position they have a tendency of pushing off too hard and too fast and there's a wave that'll follow and go over your face we don't want that to happen so with the knees up and the feet flat like that that's a platter flex position when your feet are like this it's a much easier release from the wall watch what i do my ears are under big breath stretch out tall little paddle a little kick my ears are under and i'm moving across that water almost effortlessly bellagi is gonna do that i really don't think so and he's saying no way i don't think so i really don't think you should videotape this one on the wall if this happens to the good eighth i got you i'm gonna hold here the whole time i'm holding i'm gonna hold this head the entire time this first time play back ears under relax hold your arms there keep your arms there relax now trust me here's underwater it's going to tickle it's going to tickle a little bit tickle your ears okay right there good when i say go just stretch out nice and tall no no i got you oh what do i do with my uh i'll tell you next get back on the wall ears under now while i'm holding you once we push off the wall nice and easy you're going to wave goodbye to your feet you're going to wave goodbye to your feet a little wave it's called pinning it's called pinning and your legs will be totally stretched out and let your ankles wave goodbye to the wall i've got your head so don't worry do you breathe out of your shoulders do you breathe out of your shoulders leap out do you breathe out of your shoulders i don't know what that means you breathe you use your shoulders to breathe no no so don't worry about that how about your cheeks no how about your ears i'm going to make sure your nose and mouth are above the water got it everything else we don't worry about right now big breath i'm not taking any deep uh breath i'm going to get you you don't need to take a breath stretch out tall i got your head got you out tall legs straight legs straight legs straight get your belly out use your feet a little bit breathe keep breathing coming up little bitty kicks little bitty kick and stand up right there stand up that's your first time across ever on your back first time across learn about this i'm gonna i'm gonna support his head again until i feel that he's ready to get a little bit of release from me and when i start to let go of his head i'm going to be really close by like maybe this far from his head and i'm going to make contact and he's going to know my fingers are there so that way he knows he's got a comfort factor and a confidence factor i'm not going to let him just be on his own yet not yet try it again knees up on the wall hands on the wall same thing i'm going to breathe normally same thing well take that back he says going gonna breathe normally what we like to do when we're on our back or we're swimming is is imagine that your your lungs are about full to maybe three quarters full full maybe three quarter or three quarters to a half we don't want to go down below a half a tank of air in your lungs that makes if that makes sense so i'm gonna be if i'm on my back i'll be doing this i could do that all day if i had to and be really comfortable doing it but i'm also benefiting from having a lot of that air in my lung still to help with the buoyancy to keep me on top of that water does that make sense [Music] hands on the wall knees up feet flat ears under i got your head again relax this time stretch out nice and tall i got you here we go hands and feet legs straight flop those toes little fluffies a little more of a whip a little more there you go now get your belly up now take a big breath hold your breath right now ready keep going hands by your side keep going keep going keep going keep going stand up oh my god that's unbelievable really really unbelievable i mean swear to god i didn't trust that's how i would do this i didn't really just do it again yes hands on the wall feet flat ears under notice folks it's it's a process and we're following all the steps we're not skipping any steps even right now i said hands on the wall knees up feet flat here this time when you stretch out tall get your leg stretching a little sooner and get your legs and hands starting to pad a little bit quicker okay stretch out nice and tall big breath go keep your nose dry get your belly up keep your nose dry keep your belly up keep your nose dry keep your nose dry stretch out tall use your hands wake up out of your feet i've got you a little bit relaxed easy breathing easy breathing wall stand up really really really really amazing so folks this is an intermediate step that's so critical once we start doing the freestyle with the breathing because we're going to have balaji do the arms five arms or so maybe three or four and he's gonna roll onto his back to get a breath it's gonna be rolling on his back and he might stay there for a while again objects in motion stay in motion it's critical that he keeps on moving in the water we don't want his vessel we don't want his boat to stop in the water and then have to get it going again it's much easier to keep the boat moving so we'll be doing the big arms he'll be rolling on his back getting a breath keep it moving keep it moving when he's ready take a giant breath as he rolls back over to continue into more arms as he gets better and better at that the time on his back will become less and less and less and sooner or later he's going to be able to go over for a half a second come back down a half a second come back down and actually be doing freestyle and breathing and swimming comfortably all right ears under keep that chin down and stretch out your entire body unlock your sleeves get on top of the dough don't go use your feet use your whips all four whips get down stretch out tall no hands folks look at this and wall i know it's for me wow one hour great all right knees up on the wall feet flat ears under all right now stop right there look where balaji's chin is a little too high right now his nose his nostrils are pointing straight up any drop of water that's going to make its way on his face like that is going to go up his nose we don't want that to happen so now put your face up put your ears under chin down a little bit chanel more chin down a little bit more there you go lower the head chin down there you go that's what you want oh okay now you're protecting the nose for any drop of water it could be floating around up there understand you've got to keep your ears under keep your nose dry chin down a little bit i want fast hands and fast feet under water in fact i want your thumbs hitting the side of your swimsuit okay i want your thumbs hitting the side of your swimsuit you're redirecting water past your feet remember the whip the whip uh example on your kick well now you've got four whips going you've got a whip right here from your shoulder on down you've got a whip right here you've got two more on your legs got it four whips chin down ears under good luck big breath make sure you i've got you go i'm right near you go fast hands get your belly up chin down ears under stretch out tall use those hands use those feet use your hands there you go stretch out taller and there's the wall it's the best thing i've ever done this is the best thing this is good you get that camera this is the best thing the best thing he's ever done he's making massive progress right now now we're gonna do five arms you saw earlier five big arms and then we're gonna roll it over on the back it's gonna look kind of like one two three four five he's gonna roll on his back quickly he's on his back objects in motion tend to stay in motion we want him to keep moving what does he have to do once he's on his back what four things have to engage one two three and four immediately [Music] the biggest issue for most folks in this is when they roll over there's some water hanging around the mouth and nose area and they have a tendency of sniffing a little bit so we've got to make sure like a whale does like a blowhole when you make that roll over it's going to be your ex it's an expulsion of whatever's around your mouth and nose has got to go out and you got to make sure it's safe before you inhale i'll do one first right here in front of the camera i'll just in place i'll actually swim i guess let you move it away i'll swim that way i'll roll towards you all right paddle and kick on the back that's all we're going to do for one time across for balaji first time ever in his life actually there's a lot of first times in his life today a lot of them i want to go right in my diary five arms on his belly we're gonna roll him on his back i'm gonna help him roll hold on which which is your best side to roll onto i think are you left-handed or right i'm right-handed most right-handed people are going to prefer to breathe on the right side that's usually what happens i'm a left side breather personally let's see which way's more comfortable i don't know which one you think i'm right here we're gonna roll him we're gonna roll them to their his what his right side so what i'm gonna do with balaji we're gonna do five arms it's gonna be starting with this arm right here this is first arm arm number one arm number two arm number three arm number four arm number five he's gonna roll on his back hands go by his sides he stretches out immediately and starts kicking with the four widths all four petals arm arm actually hand hand foot foot cool yes ready for this ready that arm's gonna be first we're doing five arms notice we kind of choreographed this right now we rehearsed it so it's not a surprise for him he's gonna know what it's gonna feel like now we don't know what to expect here i'm hoping for a good result it might be he might get some water around his face and nose might have some coughing a little bit but how do you get better got practice ready that arm's gonna be first take your time stretch out tall one two three four five roll on your back paddle paddle paddle side you're back that's okay we're gonna keep that in this video we're gonna do it again tell me what happened okay i've been valued i didn't forgot to breathe out forgot to breathe out that's okay actually his five arms went pretty quickly too i'm going to have you slow down your arms a little bit slow down a little bit maybe you'll feel up to your um i'll do five let's slow them down should we do this baby nope nope okay but one more time like a whale and what you're going to do is when you roll over on your back you're going to make sure once you release refill oh refill and start breathing because you're on your back nose and mouth are your snorkels your lifeblood and swimming is your nose and your mouth that's going to be your that's your lifeline so as you roll over onto your back ears under water head under water hands and feet underwater paddle like crazy nose and mouth lifeline you've got to make sure that's above the water take your tongue that's your first arm push off first and then start drawing relax enjoy this one two three four roll on your back hands by your sides stretch out tall chin down breathe get a new breath [Music] i think right now would be beneficial for bellagi to learn some bombs to learn some bobs and how to breathe what if the order bob is how does it know perfect bob is i'm going to go under water and i'm actually going to release some air through my nose and mouth i'm gonna come back up new breath go back under blow some bubbles come back up new breath go back down blow some bubbles come back up new breath i'm gonna do it over and over and over probably five times in a row what do we like to teach the new folks to learning how to do this i teach the word [Music] i'm gonna go underwater i'll say saying um i'm humming where's the air coming out of no nose hmm out of the nose i come up once i clear the water i'm gonna say pop pop why would i say power it needs something like that because i'm trying to clear any water that's around this mouth any drops at all i want them out of the way because next thing i'm going to do is what i'm inhaling i'll do i'll do five slow ones first and then five normal speed ones super slow at first watch what i do folks you can practice this in your bathtub in a sink you can practice in a traffic light if you're stuck in your car waiting for the red light to turn green [Music] you get good at these watch how this worked in freestyle and breathing now i'm going to fast forward a little bit right now but i'll do about five bobs in a row and then i'm gonna swim right by johnny right here with the camera and i'm gonna breathe every time on his side you'll notice it's bobby i'll walk over there margie i want you to see this you'll notice it's i'm doing bombs even when i breathe that freestyle it's really a bomb watch normal speed five times that's breathing that's freestyle breathing right there we're going to start now bellagio for the first time he's going to try some bobs go under and say [Music] get a new breath take your time go as low as you want to go let me see it huh were you able to get a fresh breath back in a new breath every time i i didn't i didn't do it for the last two times something happened tonight it was hard for me i think i forgot to get a new breath so now let's go five in a row again for balaji and folks this is this is a critical skill to learn when you want to become a better swimmer to be able to fast forward into some breathing this is the breathing on freestyle it doesn't look like it right now but it is the breathing on freestyle there is a thing i to it i run around the town lake for like four months um my friends told me can you run you have to breathe in through nose and breathe out breathe into your nose breathe out as you run so it gives you oxygen and stuff so i'm kind of used to it so it's it's opposite this is opposite we're breathing out of our nose breathing out of our nose and breathing in through our mouth okay you can't you can't breathe enough air through your nose while you're swimming without getting water into your throat so you're right about that good point five times so there are two things i i know i think why this is therapeutic if you normally when you breathe you breathe through nose in and out think about a dust particle you you you inhale and then when it's time to come out you take another breath it just goes back again when you breathe in and out the dust particle is starting to come out when you exhale but the new air pushes it back so you can think of it as a as a dust constantly inside your your lungs or system but when you do the pops what happens is you always reach through mouth without two nose so you can think of it as a one-way air traffic so the the the the best particle in there there's no way for it if it's time to come out through north there's no way something is gonna go in and push it back so it can come out so that way you take away all the bad energy your bad uh things energies and everything it's like cyclical and and and that's why i think causes you refreshingness cyclical he had a little bit extra help now he did some extra practicing doing the bobs a lot of bobs probably five or ten minutes worth of bombs he's gotten pretty comfortable doing the bobs releasing the air out of your nose inhaling the air through your mouth when you come back up say he's got pretty good at it we haven't seen him yet swim with the 405 arms and the rolling on his back let's see what happens [Music] release and then once and then go back out as you're moving objects in motion tend to stay in motion protect that nose with your chin being done a little bit ready for this take your time stretch out nice and tall legs are stretched out tall ready than you are paddle kick paddle kick paddle kicks get your hips up wave goodbye use that use those hands use those whips get your hands closer to your body arms closer in there you go wall much much much better the box really helped me and and it was really good now i'm going to make one correction now the next time we do it we're going to go across next when he's on his back paddling on his back spinning on his back his arms are out here a little too wide let's bring those arms closer into the body closer to the vessel like an inboard motor okay you know you want your propellers closer to your to your boat so have your arms right alongside and use those thumbs along the side of your suits use the whips use the whips objects in motion stay in motion when you roll over go ahead oh he's blown out already he grew out of there i did something wrong look what happened he asked your quest what would you say say it again i did something wrong he said he did something wrong we like to look at it as a learning experience as soon as he pushed off he started his arms i made the comment he's blowing his air out he's blowing his air out he blew all your air out hold your airflow just because of the bob's thing when i went in i was trying to do the box now this is perfect to see this because once he learns through practice and practice and practice regular freestyle breathing on his favorite side every single time if it's his right side breathing eventually every time this left hand touches the water we want him to breathe back down bring his arm around take a breath another breath back down take a breath back down now relax now why would we do that because if he was jogging how often would he be breathing non-stop breathing riding a bicycle what do you do non-stop breathing but for some reason people in swimming think oh well you're gonna breathe every five arms every six arms every eight arms no you're not we're gonna let him breathe on his favorite side every single time that hand touches the water he's breathing on this side just like he's jogging just like he's riding a bike he's gonna love this he'll be able to swim i can't tell you when but he'll be able to get in the pool and be swimming for 10 minutes 20 minutes maybe even 30 minutes straight without stopping comfortable pace getting a lot of air getting a lot of oxygen that's how it's gonna work so right now he's doing five arms we're having him hold his breath for those five arms or so as he rolls over to release because we're teaching the basics of breathing right now once he gets good at this he'll be breathing more often more often more often that he can blow his air out breathe blow his air out breathe in blow his air out breathe in because you're gonna be breathing in more often make sense yes let's try it this time hold your breath for five arms when you roll release bring the air back in all right looks good so far hold his breath now release breathe in breathe in breathe in paddles feet use your whips get your hips up all four there you go keep going relax on that looks awesome and there's the wall wow that was such an improvement you were taught done unteachable such an improvement yes such and this is the guy who said no way are you going to get us on get me on my back no way i was i was this close to making a bet i'm glad i didn't do that great do it again goggles paddle kick ears under stretch out tall all four whips get your feet floppier coming up stretch out taller use those arms use those arms there you go wall got it i think i feed them i'm pushing it pretty closely possibly let's do a little bit slowly but a little bit longer with using strength for sure you can do that stronger remember objects in motion stay in motion ready for this with another one let's do it again marshall rest i know he says no rest he's fine all right ready relax eyes down stretch out nice and tall when you roll on your back make sure your feet are floppier use your feet like pins like fins [Music] spins ah look at that protect that nose i'll stop you don't worry keep going relax keep breathing wall [Music] welcome back here's the last step from elijah we're gonna do some four or five six arm going on his belly freestyle arms first we're gonna he's gonna roll on his back objects in motion stay in motion he's gonna use all four paddles the two arms two hands two legs two feet all four he's moving on his back i'll be talking and communicating to elijah and i'm gonna say when you're ready when you're ready take a big breath and let's roll and he's gonna have to leave with an arm and that face got to go straight back in the water because he wants to make sure that we're moving forward he can't stop the forward motion if a lot of folks will try this for the first time and they'll roll over on their belly and their arms are down and now you're in a stop position and now you've got to try to get an arm out of the water and get your vessel restarted again in the water very very difficult to do much easier if on your back we're moving we're moving when you're ready big whip and you're already and you take that arm and it leads you towards where you want to go critical moves here big breath facing go big breath facing go object to motion stain let's see what happens here [Music] this first time i'm probably going to help belaji if he needs it with that first stroke back on his belly to make sure he's moving forward you make sure you take a big breath roll move roll and move roll and move ready here we go big breath keep it nice and long stretch up nice and tall let's see what happens here folks there's the roll paddle kick paddle kick stretch out tall use your paddles use your whip legs get those feet going i'm gonna straighten you out when you think you're ready when you think you're ready big breath roll face in that's all right that happens more after you think it happens that's his first attempt at this wait for them yeah i tried it what happened what happened when when i tried to push my uh like come back it was very heavy for me and and i was back against disoriented myself and i wasn't sure i did it all right now i'll also say that i think it just happened a little too slow also it's got to be a faster move here's what i mean every action he loves the reaction if i've got something above the water right now something else is getting shoved down so i want to minimize the time of this arm being out of the water i wanted to get from here from my waist down here by my legs i want it from there to above my head quickly i'll do one right now real quick watch as i'm rolling big breath big breath there's no time to wait you don't want to give your vessel the chance to slow down even a little bit so you notice how quick it was big breath oh i'm going when that arm comes across you better dig in right now to keep your vessel moving forward critical let's try right there start from there left clear goggles are now all right a little quicker this time once you take a big round stay there stay there keep breathing keep moving keep moving let me know whenever you're ready take a big breath first giant rep quick go go go now here's what i'm going to say happen without even asking him right now without asking bilaji he bailed out too soon he bailed out of it too soon he can do this it didn't work exactly how he wanted to the very beginning and so he quit he gave up on that one he's not going to quit this time he's going to take that big breath face straight down he's on top of that black line and he's just going to go for five or six arms he can do this i was halfway but then i gave him i was doing the right thing yes and when you roll stretch up you got this you got this get ready goggles now folks a lot of our success here has to do with the confidence that we have as teachers he's going to do this there's no doubt in my mind that that guy right there balaji that he cannot do it there's no doubt he can do this and he will do this sure his will his determination is off the charts off the charts watch this all right folks here's our last shot of the day furbalaji we've been here for a total of about two hours it's been two hours in the water he went from fearful near drowning victim last year in a lake climbing in the steps not feeling comfortable in the water walking around you saw it for yourself is not an act nothing nothing cool in here no trick photography nothing trick with the camera here we are two hours later watch this it's not perfect but he's awesome at this now and he knows how to get better practice practice and practice ready he's got this keep moving give me your feet when you're ready use both those arms remember head down let's go let's go let's go let's go there it is roll paddling kick paddling kit paddling kick beautiful stand up i tried to stop him messed him up i messed him up and he still went anyways look at this come to the camera look at the camera are you a new person i am a new person i'm gonna go home swimming well done folks we'll see you soon on youtube this is a um from where i am from from india there is a beautiful saying on how do you learn so it's a it's a you know it's a language called sanskrit you know about it it's a slope it's a it's a verse in power in sanskrit it says you get one-fourth of your studies or education or or education from your teacher and and one-fourth it comes out of the student himself says some in-built talent the risk one-fourth you get by interacting with your peers you missed four the last four comes out of time so you know you get one quest from you one fourth comes in from me one fourth i look at my friends and one fourth practice get a full knowledge [Music] your friends that were on the lake with you last summer they're not gonna recognize you you're gonna you're you're a brand new person already you feel the difference i i can i'm good the water is my friend [Music] you

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Published: Wed Aug 19 2020