{"id":205441,"date":"2016-06-01T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=205441"},"modified":"2016-06-01T07:35:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:35:01","slug":"why-swim-lessons-are-the-best-gift-someone-can-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/why-swim-lessons-are-the-best-gift-someone-can-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Swim Lessons are the Best Gift Someone Can Give"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brian Honicky,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swimming World College Intern<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Very few of my early childhood memories involve places that aren\u2019t in related to water in some way. I remember endless hours spent at the local pool in the summer heat, body surfing in the ocean with friends and family, and playing in small blow-up pools in friends&#8217; backyards. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s safe to say that there isn\u2019t a time that I can ever remember being afraid of the water. I\u2019m sure there were times in my early years when I screamed and fought to get in a pool, but fortunately, that didn\u2019t last long. Thankfully my parents put me in swim lessons and had me in the pool from an early age. They didn\u2019t know then how much of a presence the pool would be in my life over the next decade or so, but they knew that it would be an important life skill for me to have regardless. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pool grew to be nothing short of a second home to me and many other kids my age. It was where I made great friends, where I found my passion for competitive swimming, and it eventually became where I was spending a lot of my time outside of school. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was where I would learn to fail and learn to succeed, how to push myself past my limits, but also how to have fun while I was doing it. The pool helped to shape me into the person I am today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If I hadn\u2019t been put in swim lessons, I never would have found this home away from home. What I didn\u2019t realize throughout all those years of flips and cannonballs, was that what lessons had truly given me was the gift of water safety&#8211; something millions of people go without. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"157093\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/4-swim-lesson-flaws-that-haunt-todays-swimmers\/swim-lessons-instuctor-and-group\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Swim-lessons-instuctor-and-group.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,683\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Swim-lessons-instuctor-and-group\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Swim-lessons-instuctor-and-group&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Swim-lessons-instuctor-and-group-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Swim-lessons-instuctor-and-group-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157093 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Swim-lessons-instuctor-and-group-700x500.jpg\" alt=\"Swim-lessons-instuctor-and-group\" width=\"700\" height=\"500\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">May 21 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachmetoswim.com\/national-learn-to-swim-day.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">National Learn to Swim Day<\/a>, an event sponsored by Swimways. It is focused on getting kids in the pool for the first time and teaching them the life-saving skill of swimming. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the second largest cause of injury-related death for young kids. Far too many people, children and adults, live without the safety net of basic water safety knowledge. I can\u2019t imagine what my life would be like if I didn\u2019t feel comfortable diving headfirst into a cold pool on a hot summer day. A major part of my life would be completely missing. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everyone deserves a chance to experience the happiness that swimming brings in so many different ways. People who have been given this gift of swimming should always pay it forward to someone else. The beauty of swimming is that it doesn&#8217;t take much training to be able to pass along at least a few of the fundamental skills needed to get started. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you give a child swim lessons, you are giving them so much more than the ability to go to a local pool with their friends. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First, you are giving them a line of protection against water-related accidents. If a child feels comfortable in the water and they see it as a familiar place, they are more likely to stay calm and even help other kids who may be struggling. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Water safety gives a second home to a new swimmer, and opens a door to a new world of possibilities. Swimming could turn into a lifelong hobby, or spark a new competitive fire in someone. It provides a form of exercise that can be easy on the body in old age but also as physically demanding as you make it in youth. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swimmers know that there is opportunity to continue their sport for the rest of their lives, even after they leave behind their competition gear for a more relaxed environment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The water provides a sanctuary; a place to escape the stress and the problems of life for an hour or two. When the world gets to be too much every once and a while, it\u2019s the perfect place to clear your head. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Giving a child swim lessons opens up a world of opportunity that I can\u2019t imagine living without. Young kids may be forced by their parents to come to the pool for lessons, but they will eventually thank them for the years of memories that will be made in the water.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brian Honicky,\u00a0Swimming World College Intern Very few of my early childhood memories involve places that aren\u2019t in related to water in some way. 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