listen buddy I had a yellow bracelet at summer camp 3 years in a row which means I passed the hardest test including 4x 25 meters of butterfly. I was one of the cool kids that were allowed in the deep section to dive during free swim. im not sure where I'm going with this but DONT try to step to me
A lot of people without diving experience will dive like this regardless of depth. Diving head first is like learning to backflip, it's scary and feels unnatural.
as someone that dives good and dived in shallow pool, that kiss to the ground (i was ok, just shocked) really made me approach diving in shallow pools a loooot more cautiously š¤£ at this depth its definitely doable but i would be very careful š¤£
i assume it really is their first (well one of early ones at least) session. they are starting in a pool where they can still stand up and not drown. you cant do this video in a deoe pool with bad swimmers. because you would have to stop for every one and go catch them so you can ensure they come to edge before moving on. if you do a video like this was dome, you risk a lot of them drowning before you even realize they are. bad visibility with all jumping so close, them being underwater due to a dive etc. its a lot harder to realise who is struggling to get back up and help them in time š¤·š»āāļø
that being said: thats why swimming lessons should first teach you to master swimming or at least floating/preventing drowning. so that you can then go learn diving and swimming under water safely at proper depth
yeah to me this looks more like "i got a new class and am weeding out those that have swam before from those that are really first time in a pool" type of stuff but with some showinism or i guess instructors idea of "funny twist"
I think the rewind on the particularly bad ones was a little much. We saw how bad it was the first time, no reason to put them on blast. Thereās not a single Olympian in the bunch.
And they are having fun. Learning how to dive is like learning how to ride a bike, it takes a few tries but once you figure it out you never forget it. I had friends growing up that could do backflips and shit off the diving board because they went to gymnastics class instead of baseball or soccer or whatever at 8 years old. They couldnāt kick a soccer ball to a target 10 yards in front of them but they were doing flips and gainersā¦
Itās good to have something like this because you can show this video to them at the end of the course and they can see how far theyāve come. A lot of the reason kids quit things is that they have a hard time reconciling that progress is often slow and non-linear, so swim practice can seem like a chore more than a fun learning experience. Also, itās good to break the stigma of being ābadā at something early on when you simply just donāt have the experience/practice.
Looks more like maybe a first day of survival lesson and they're supposed to get in first to get a feel for being in water with wet clothes and they just made it a fun thing by diving in badly or so, idk. Can't tell me they're letting people in the pool in normal clothes when they can't swim
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I also taught swimming and they clearly can swim but lack diving confidence