Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it
for fun, and other times you do it to not die. As swimming is in the must to
learn list and I did not know how to swim, I got an opportunity to learn
swimming when our school announced swimming as an activity for us for one day
every week.
As
I was a non-swimmer I was really scared to get in the water rather I had a kind
of phobia of getting into the deeper waters. As soon as I got to know that we
have swimming as an activity for us every week I decided to take up the
challenge and made it a point that I will learn to swim, by hook or crook. With
me there were many such people who were not ready to take up this activity, but
then we were motivated by our teachers and elders that you should be able to
swim for many certain reasons. Also in the same time period there were floods
at Jammu & Kashmir in India and i got to know that many people died in the
floods because of not able to swim.
On
the first day we went to the swimming pool along with our sports teacher Manoj
sir. After reaching there we met the instructors over there who were going to
train us for swimming. We got ready for the activity and headed over to the
pool. Almost everyone from our school who were there for the activity were
trained for swimming or at least they were able to swim. Watching them I said
to myself that “If everyone can, even I can”, and I got into the pool. The
instructor segregated all the students in groups as who were able to swim and
who were not. After making groups the instructor started with the training
session. First of all he made us to do some simple drills like peddling in the
water and float our bodies on the surface of the water.
The
next week we went to the pool the instructor told us to do the same drills but
do it quickly and for a shorter period of time than from the first day. After
we were done with the drills our instructor told us that he’ll see if we could
even hold our bodies for some time in the water. I was able to hold myself and
swim a bit for about half a minute. And then the instructor told us that next
week he’ll just make us swim.
I
was really excited for this week as I knew that I can swim a bit and today we
were just going to swim in the pool. the whole time in the pool I struggled to
swim and eventually was able to swim for a satisfactory distance.
Also
with all these trainings we had a lot of fun with our instructor and our sports
teacher playing some games In the pool which were taught us by the instructor
and also our sports teacher. Overall doing this activity was a huge success as
I was able to swim and go into the deep waters without any phobia or fear.
