tbh it depends on body so even if you do what they teach to stay afloat you will sink cuz of your dense body type, trust me ive tried everything but i cant float i have to keep stroking
@@ap-rw3mj because your legs or butt are down in the water, if your flat with the water, you will float. You can put a 25 lb weight and you would still float
I learnt swimming at 40 that too in a lake. I was shit scared of water due to an incident in childhood (my stupidity). Had jumped in a friend's pool with mouth wide open and a friend saved me from drowning. Since that day I was just scared of trying to swim. Somehow gathered courage at 40 and now love it. Still a beginner but can do freestyle easily and a bit of underwater. Simply love it and hope to master my swimming along with learning other strokes. It is never too late.
Thanks so much for the encouragement. I want to learn to swim, however at 50 I'm petrified of the water. I don't do water in my face in the shower. My mom took me for lessons when I was younger but I was terrified even back then. One day I hope I can get over it.
Working on it at 37. I was never afraid of water. My parents came to America with just the clothes on their back, so swim lessons weren't a priority. I was too embarrassed as an adult although I did enroll in a few week beginner adult class. Recently moved to an apartment with a pool, so I wake up at 0600 just to practice 😊
For the ones who don't understand then what he is trying to say is that basically if you do this body will have an equal weight whereas if you are standing like trying to swim then you will sink and could possibly drown. That's the best I could explain.Sorry if it was bad
If you don't know how to swim/float and your feet can't reach the bottom, once your head goes down the surface, there's no way you're coming up again, until saved.
Just do nothing and you’ll get back up to the surface. But if you become panic and your hands and feet are struggling all over the place then you’re done.
Bro, i know how to swim, but even i slightly panic every time my head goes under the water even tho i automatically come out to the surface every time.
Like, once I was swimming so i fell luckly i had my brother with me so i was practicing to walk in the swimmer pool I fell but i didn't panic and my brother saved me
I have lived in a beach city my whole life. 5 minute walk to the beach from my house and I still don’t know how to swim because of my fear of water lol
It is important to mention that you have to apply full body tension. Stretch your arms and legs and move your head back (move your chin away from your chest). Try to breathe slightly shallow, so that most of the air stays in your lungs, do not breath out completely.
Bro when I was around seven I didn’t know how to swim so I had a floatie but I fell in the water and I panicked so hard that I just randomly started to move my arms up and down and it worked
Its sorta like learning ti ride a bike. The way I learned was I was pushed really hard and I was told to cycle downhill. Riding downhill means you have speed, so just cycle with the pedals
That’s exactly how I learned lol , when I was a little kid I fell out of a floatie & basically had to figure out how to swim to the steps I thought I was gonna die & no one noticed a child almost drowning 🤦🏻♂️
Not only do I have trust issues with water but I am also afraid of big fish. And not just like a shark for the obvious shark bite reasons but any big fish that can swallow me in a single gulp
This is the dumbest excuse I've ever seen. Water is always gonna stay the same and all you need to do is go on top of it. Secondly, there are no big fish other than sharks that will eat you. By the way, ever heard of a SHARK NET
my family looks like their having the happiest day in their lives swimming... while I'm on the land watching them have fun because I'm scared of the water.
Yeah well for freshwater you might wanna paddle your head up with minimal hand movements... But you still won't sink if you got air in your lungs. Tho generally the more salt in the water and the less waves in it, the better.
You can do it in any water , I do in a swimming pool but obviously I can swim , maybe in an emergency for those who can’t swim it could save a life , any waves 🌊 and that floating is over
100% true. Even if you dont know how to swim, Is impossible to drown in calm waters if you stay like that with air in your lungs. Specially in the ocean as the salt helps you afloat, much easier than on a pool. Only thing to do is to control your mind and calm down. Loosing cool will get you dead. Even if you are pushed down, if you hold your breath and stand still, your body will slowly come up to the surface, you just need not to panic 👍
I am watching all these videos after going neck deep in water while can't swim at all but yet trying to learn. Earlier i feared a lot but this time i got stupider and kept trying.
I have the same issue. But, at 56, I'm tired of denying myself the pleasure everyone else seems to get out of this activity. Luckily, my gym has a pool & ego be damned, I'm gonna start working on teaching myself to swim.
That's true if you've never been into water before... you can literally drown at a depth less than your height as well. That's because you would not be able to maneuver your body for staying upright and start panicking which in turn will just make things harder.
@@GoldenTV3 you think someone who doesn't know how to swim can survive in the ocean/sea cause it's salty? you think the buoyancy added by salt is enough to keep you afloat? 🤦
This seems like a fun activity when swimming in a pool. I will save this video so that the next time I will swim, I will do this and will have fun floating in the water
@@isa.star.gurlie I’m not afraid at all I love the water and swim multiple times a week. It just doesn’t work for me. I have taking high level professional classes and they can’t get me to float for their lives.
Same. I just don't float. Also my muscle mass has increased since the last time I tried, so I probably sink even more now. I'm also thalassophobic, so I would scared as hell of the sea even if I could float.
There are some people high muscle mass and lean who will just lie on their back at the bottom of the pool when they try to starfish. I'm not sure in salt water with full lungs though, otherwise go to the dead sea, you can float on your back and read a book there!
This is how I do it 1. Let your arms out 2. Lay down in the water 3. Get rid of the stress and anxiety out of your body because that will weigh your body down 4.then relax and focus on calmness and things that make you happy Bam you can float like your dead in the sea🤓🤩
What to do when you fall in the water and dont know how to swim.... Me:opens youtube and finds this short RU-vid: Breathe a lot if air and spread your limbs like a starfish. Me: How the f---- dies💀💀 Edit: Thanks for 1M Likes 💀
how do u not be able to do that gurl, its so easy. ur probably struggling cause u arent looking up in the sky, not breathing, legs and arms not straight or ur panicking
I feel like I should explain that you should also have to keep your belly up and head in the water not fully submerged but just to your ears and it will be a lot easier
This is so true. I was afraid of deep water. Until I learned how to float. I used to be afraid of 6ft water. Because it’s way taller than me. I am not anymore… I just float when I feel like. I won’t be strong enough to swim through the whole thing.
Note: If you lift your head out of the water you’ll start to sink, and if you don’t maintain over 50% oxygen in your lungs you will start to sink. If you panic and start moving you can sink.
Biggest thing is not be tense in water , the more stressed you body is and panicking you weigh more and sink , know it sound crazy but you gotta relax and eventually you will trust water
