I tried to learn swimming, as a pre-teen, but never really made progress. It was a summer swimming course, with a large number of students, and the coach wasn’t really bothered to check on each individual student. If you learned, good for you. To make matters worse, I had a lot of anxiety issues, and the coach’s idea of a solution was to just push me into the water and hope I’d learn. I didn’t.
The swimming saga
April 15, 2025