Rather frequently a mistake is created by both aquatic pros and people who are looking to attain specific nautical goals. There is a serious difference between helping an individual with no regard for their age, fitness level or life experience, overcome varying degrees of fear surrounding water, which is really a fear of drowning, and teaching any person who is not afflicted with that same fear, the best way to swim.
The method and ability sets that are required to meet the wants of both populations are vastly different. Many individuals say that an "experienced" swim instructor may be able to help somebody defeat their fear of water, by teaching them the "nuts and bolts" of floating, gliding, treading and stroke development. Of course , it does make some sense that once somebody learns the proper way to swim, that they ought to no longer remain afraid in water. The issue with that logic is twofold; first, is that many learn to swim instructors will never ever get the chance to meet and help those fearful of water, because plenty in that mixed population will never take part in their normal swim programs on account of their fears.
Second, most frequently, if or when they do find the courage as adults or are made to by well meaning folks to take swim lessons, quit because they begin to feel more fearful, annoyed, exasperated, disappointed , embarrassed and isolated than they did before the lessons. It is unrealistic and counter-productive to believe folk can begin to learn to swim in an attempt to overcome their fear of drowning. Quite to the contrary, one must be able to learn how to overcome that fear so they will become successful in learning how to swim. The sole variable that is continual in both processes is they can both be accomplished in water.As in any effort to help folks overcome unique challenges that stop learning using normal/standard resources, identifying and assessing the behavior is a critical step in setting up a strategy to modify that behaviour. It is critical to recollect that people afraid of water are responding to internal messages from their brain informing them that they are in approaching danger, regardless of the clear fact that they're not. Their view of the aquatic scene is far, far different than others who don't share their fear, yet their fear and the consequences of that fear are both very real and built in to them. As a result of that wild fear, they find it very tough and painful to learn, process and perform conventional studying how to swim talents. Here is a list of behaviours that help identify a person who is strangely afraid of water/drowning and possibly won't benefit from conventional swim lessons:
1) Unable to stand, unassisted, in shallow water
2) Unable to submerge face in shallow water
3) Unable to perform an aided front and/or back float in shallow water
4) Unable to enter deep water with flotation device
Without addressing the emotional part attached to these fears and learning particular and unique coping and aquatic skills that may allow them to understand, manage and eventually to overcome their fear of water, they stand no risk of learning how to swim competently and nicely. Nautical Specialists, stand the best probability of providing the sort of physical and emotional support necessary to permit those individuals to gradually wade into a nautical environment and to learn how to defeat their fear and then be well placed to learn how to swim.
The method and ability sets that are required to meet the wants of both populations are vastly different. Many individuals say that an "experienced" swim instructor may be able to help somebody defeat their fear of water, by teaching them the "nuts and bolts" of floating, gliding, treading and stroke development. Of course , it does make some sense that once somebody learns the proper way to swim, that they ought to no longer remain afraid in water. The issue with that logic is twofold; first, is that many learn to swim instructors will never ever get the chance to meet and help those fearful of water, because plenty in that mixed population will never take part in their normal swim programs on account of their fears.
Second, most frequently, if or when they do find the courage as adults or are made to by well meaning folks to take swim lessons, quit because they begin to feel more fearful, annoyed, exasperated, disappointed , embarrassed and isolated than they did before the lessons. It is unrealistic and counter-productive to believe folk can begin to learn to swim in an attempt to overcome their fear of drowning. Quite to the contrary, one must be able to learn how to overcome that fear so they will become successful in learning how to swim. The sole variable that is continual in both processes is they can both be accomplished in water.As in any effort to help folks overcome unique challenges that stop learning using normal/standard resources, identifying and assessing the behavior is a critical step in setting up a strategy to modify that behaviour. It is critical to recollect that people afraid of water are responding to internal messages from their brain informing them that they are in approaching danger, regardless of the clear fact that they're not. Their view of the aquatic scene is far, far different than others who don't share their fear, yet their fear and the consequences of that fear are both very real and built in to them. As a result of that wild fear, they find it very tough and painful to learn, process and perform conventional studying how to swim talents. Here is a list of behaviours that help identify a person who is strangely afraid of water/drowning and possibly won't benefit from conventional swim lessons:
1) Unable to stand, unassisted, in shallow water
2) Unable to submerge face in shallow water
3) Unable to perform an aided front and/or back float in shallow water
4) Unable to enter deep water with flotation device
Without addressing the emotional part attached to these fears and learning particular and unique coping and aquatic skills that may allow them to understand, manage and eventually to overcome their fear of water, they stand no risk of learning how to swim competently and nicely. Nautical Specialists, stand the best probability of providing the sort of physical and emotional support necessary to permit those individuals to gradually wade into a nautical environment and to learn how to defeat their fear and then be well placed to learn how to swim.
About the Author:
Aquatic Therapist, Jeff Krieger, the Founder and Director of the S.O.A.P. (Strategies Overcoming Aquatic Phobias) Program, has a BA in Psychology and a MS in Counseling. He has been an aquatic professional for over thirty years and is recognized as an innovator and expert in helping fearful swimmers overcome their fear of water.
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