Why Teaching Kids to Swim in Regular Clothes Is Important
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2023
- More and more parents are signing up their kids for swim lessons where they are fully clothed. It's to help children survive if they ever accidentally fall into the water. Swim instructor Morgan Harkness says if a child falls into the water fully clothed, they can easily panic and drown. Fully clothed 6-year-olds enrolled in Imagine Swimming in Brooklyn, New York, were ready to hit the pool to learn to swim. Inside Edition's Alison Hall has more.
My parents put all the kids thru this a similar course. Not only does it teach the child life saving things but it destroys fear and creates passion for swimming/ spending time in the water.
I don't know about you but I started hating swimming. My skin doesn't take chlorinated water very well. It really depends on the person i don't like getting wet. I rather get dusty riding my bike across trails but definitely not wet and cold. Also weirdly they say you can't forget swimming meanwhile I am here wondering how to swim.
@@gwadamit8116 Everyone is diffrent and that is perfectly fine😊
Until they watch Jaws.
Pool water is different from falling in a lake or something anyway. All these crazy lessons aren't going to pan out into anything.
@@Maspets That’s just flat out wrong….many more cases of lives being saved with this course lmao, but go off I guess 😂 Also so you know pool water is thinner than lake and ocean water which makes it less buoyant…..
This is great. I grew as a competitive swimmer through college, but we were never taught as kids what to do if that happened. Knowing how to do perfect strokes won't help you if you're suddenly 20 lbs heavier, wish this has been taught when I was growing up. Obviously as a swimmer I know if I fell in a pool I'd be fine but that would have been nice to know at that age
I promise a competitive swimmer can swim with clothes lol you will probably need to kick off your shoes but you won’t drown
@@user-rh9yi8kr5x we would always jump right into the pool after tennis or golf lessons with our clothes on in the summer, but it wasn't a public pool so they may have been more relaxed on the rules. Never thought about the jewelry aspect of safety. That's a good point. I do remeber it being much harder to swim though after being in with close and deff a lot more difficult to get out.
And yeah our coaches would record underwater and play back for all of us to work on our strokes. They especially did that as I got into higher levels of competition. So strokes were heavily emphasized but I know every coach is different
20lbs? what do you wear every day, military gear? 💀
My school did this! In Australia its really important for our kids to know how to swim, i was forced into surf life saving as a kid and even know how to swim in the ocean.
same with new zealand
Same, every year since I entered school we would do a unit like this
Yeah I absolutely hated it as a child and early teens being forced to go to lessons and learn all of this. Now being in my late 20's with mates from around the globe I appreciate every second I was forced to learn back then as I'm always surprised at just how many mates from other countries don't know how to swim even with basic life preserving skills.. I guess the large majority of our population lives on the coast so it does make sense.
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Same in England - we were all taught this while we were at school. I thought it was standard.
This should be required learning in schools.
Could not agree more
It is in mine
It was at mine… most private schools tho tho
It is in the UK
I am totally flabbergasted. I thought learning to swim with clothes on was done everywhere .I got my swimming diploma 50 years ago and went in with clothes on in the exam. In the Netherlands you don't get it untill you swam with clothes on. Someone over there got an epifany moment. Better late than never.... But a good thing!
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No, it seems pretty standard in Northern Europe and Australia but that's it, basically.
I used to be in a swim class, and we would learn in bathing suits but for some days we would have to wear clothes like normal.
I didn’t know this was a thing I literally never heard of this
on this video mainly to find a comment like this. Totally normal part of childhood, learning how to swim with clothes on.
In the Netherlands all kids learn how to swim with clothes on from a young age. It's been that way for more than 30 years. Learn to swim with clothes is swim diploma A, learn to dive under a tarp and find the next exit is diploma B (in case kids fall through ice in winter) and diving off a ledge is diploma C.
For me, through the power of UA-cam and several channels dedicated to wearing articles of clothing underwater, I learned very quickly how to get comfortable with the idea of swimming fully dressed. Also, as someone on a very highly functioning level of the autism spectrum, I find the sensory stimulation of the extra weight of wet clothes very pleasing. Therefore, from a survival aspect, this unironically makes absolute sense. Most people doubtlessly see this as a weird quirk I have, but a dear friend of mine I have known since 2004 has accepted me for it unconditionally and actively encourages me to continue pursuing it, and I hope he adopts it in his watsu/reiki and swim school practice.
Is this not a normal thing to be taught? My school did swim to survive in grades 3 and 7. Part of that was swimming with clothes on, I chose jean shorts and a cotton tee and it was difficult
Same
Sounds like you went to an expensive school😂😂😂
@@chicorote2.064 I did this in grade school, public Chicago high school. Definitely not expensive
@@chicorote2.064 public elementary school in Ontario, Canada. I believe it’s mandated by the province for every school here
@@hermiagrace it’s part of the physical ed curriculum
I wish a swim class like this existed when I was a child. I’m 30 and still don’t know how to swim.
I'm 20 and am taking private lessons this summer. It was an investment but I'm sure the sense of security will be worth it. It's never too late to learn!
I hope that you do learn as it is not only a life saving skill but it can be very enjoyable. However it come down to you making the choice.😊
@@heatherholland1051 trying to find the right school and right teacher.
It's not just a survival skill, but also a great hobby and way to stay fit
@@laurendavis9777 They had swim classes when you were a kid I'm sure.
This has been common practice for more than 50 years. Clothes, shoes (cleaned), just as you wear them going to school. And back then, the water was not heated, so it resembled a more realistic outdoor situation. I vividly remember muscles locking up the first seconds of entering the cold water. This could easily be because our country is mostly below sea level.
Whilsts good teaching them to swim in clothes, the cap and goggles need to go too? I can understand the need for them in normal lessons but for ‘personal survival skills’ it’s important to reflect a real situation.
This happened to me once, except it was in the middle of a lake during a summer sailing camp DURING A THUNDERSTORM. The sailboat tipped because of the winds from the unexpected and sudden storm. I am a competitive swimming, but swimming with clothes on was a completely new feeling. Fortunately, we all got out safely.
I assume you're american. This seems to be another "just american" thing. As everyone else learns to swim with clothes at early ages...
Swimming is a skill that I'd recommend everyone to know. I learned when I was 16 and I believe it's never too late to learn. It's one of those things that is nice to know and not need; detrimental to know should you find yourself in any body of water.
Provided the water doesn't make you hypothermic, or doesn't trap you in a vehicle. I highly doubt ending up in swimmable water is a frequent enough occurrence unless you like boating.
In the Netherlands, at least when I was a kid. We used to have swimming lessons in our bathing suits. But when it was time for the test. (We had like multiple levels of qualifications you could obtain) you'd always take the exam wearing clothes.
The first 3 qualifications `zwemdiploma A`, `zwemdiploma B` and `Zwemdiploma C`. Also give little strips as a reward which you could sew onto your swimming suit. So in a public pool it would show the amount of competence you had and life guards could act accordingly. To determine whether or not you could go into the deep end unattended or go down a slide without parental guidance.
No clue or that system is still in place but reflecting back on kt it felt kinda logical.
I’m from England. 55 years ago, when I was 10, most children went for swimming lessons with their School to the local pool. You progressed from Bronze level to silver then gold. Even when my parents were at school they went swimming with their schools. Mom became a diving champ and Dad a Life Saver then Instructor. We grew up loving the water, which kept us fit and meant we had lots of fun together as a family. For our Silver swimming proficiency exam we had to swim a few lengths wearing pyjamas over our swimsuit. Then, still in the water, we removed the bottoms, tightly knotted the bottom of each leg, clasped the waist together and blew into what became a ‘bag’. Once this became inflated it became a buoyancy aid. Brilliant - hard work but such fun. All youngsters need to be able to do this. Today. In an emergency, it would be their trackie bottoms that they would use to perhaps save their lives when in difficulty in water. It’s so sad that these days many Schools can’t afford to help their pupils help themselves
I swim with clothes on all the time, I like to prepare for any scenario, but the lifeguard told me to stop cuz it's contaminating the pool.
Lol! The pool is already contaminated. People still pee and fart in pools 🤢
Not to mention snot coming from their nose and scabs peeling off their skin
There's a lot that does contaminate pools. Blood, snot, spit, black gunk (you often see on feet), white gunk (Not just from pimpils), bacteria, viruses, dirt, pee, poop (Farts counts), bugs, any peels, natural skin oil, arm pits, hair, even some inappropriate words.
In the uk this was incorporated into our regular swim lessons, I thought it was taught most places. Couldn’t get to the next swim level without learning to do so glad it’s becoming more regular
Yeah I’m the same as you - I was pretty shocked that this video is presenting it as a novel idea that a part of the US has come up with.
My school also had a course like this and was mandatory from 5-12. I'm lucky to have never fallen in water but I'm glad to have done it.
Ages 5-12 or grades 5-12?
@@ASweetShortCake ages. I'm not from the U.S
I’ve never heard of this before, but it makes perfect sense I think it’s great for adults to do also✅
This is totally needed 🙏🏾
At most primary schools in Australia ages (5-12) there is swim week where they give you swimming lessons with clothes for 2 days and normal lessons for 3 days. But I feel there should be swim week in all schools because there is so many deaths from drowning because people didn’t know what to do.
Swim week is great but if you’re a parent, please don’t rely on one week a year to teach your little one to swim. Learning to swim needs regular (weekly) practice.
Yes agreed but I meant if the child isn’t getting any swim lessons at all it’s a good thing to have in schools.
@@estellecoren6117 very true 💕
I really like this emphasis on emergency scenarios wearing clothes. Great course for the community!
Watching this reminds of the time went we were in a boat on a lake and it tiped over. My 4 kids were not so happy and cried the whole way back to the shore. Thankfully we were all wearing lifejackets and the part of the lake we were in wasn't very deep (my feet were touching ground) but almost all of them panicked. The baby I understood and it made all of us adults realise that the kids needed swiming lessons.
I like this idea of teaching them with coths on and I'm going to show this to my husband and get his thoughts too. I want our kids to learn.
The Reporter though, actually being there inside the water💯
This is standard in the uk since I learnt to swim 35yrs ago, and even before that when my dad learnt to. America once again behind on things thinking the rest of the world is as dense as them.
@xen I don’t think it’s a bot at all. It completely ties in with how much of the UK would speak on this subject.
When me and my little cousin used to go swimming lessons (a long time ago lol) the place went to used to make us do “safety days” once a month where we’d have to come fully dressed and learn safety skills. Never had to use them but it was good to learn.
I don’t know if has to do anything with it but in the Netherlands (don’t know if anywhere else in Europe) it is quite normal to leurn to swim with clothes.
Same in Sweden,to pass swiming in school you have done it.
My school did this back in the 90s. There were badges for each level of swimming, and when so good, you then did it with clothes on and would do things like get weights from the bottom of the pool and bring them to the surface.
So smart..also i got cpr training and swimming instructions at summer camp as a child
They do it in the netherlands.
I never thought about it but yeah, it makes so much sense. They’re so little and panic allot easier than adults (who also panic but not as much)
This is such a great idea. Also, make sure to help someone if they drown.
I am dutch (country full of water) and i even learned to swim with winterclothes and rain clothes on. I am not sure if it is still mandatory here to get swim certificates but it was back in the day very normal to be put on swimming lessons as young as possible. After that i even wanted to become a rescue swimmer and eventually a lifeguard. It helps to be confident in the water!
My family, growing up, we always swam in the river and the lakes with regular (old) clothes on, so we wouldn't get our swim suits stained with the dirty water. My own kids do the same when we go camping. I never thought of it as a safety thing, so it's interesting to learn!
This is very useful!
We did this from the age of 7/8 here in the UK, but I was fortunate to be in a school with its own pool, where we had weekly lessons.
14 years ago when I learned to swim it was here already a part in swimming lessons in my country
Great idea!!
In the ymca swimming lessons here in Australia that most kids went too, learning to swim in clothing was the focus of a few lessons. We also wore shoes.
i love the reporters dedication to the bit
We been doing this in the netherlands but it's not a special course. It's part of the swim lessons. Just like diving, flaoting and swimming on your back.
What great thing for children to learn.
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this is amazing, I want to learn lol.
Brilliant! This needs to become common practices all over
Here in the Philippines, we swim with clothes on all the time to avoid sunburn since this is a tropical country.
Had to do swim training (athletic training) in sweat clothes back in '02. So heavy! 😩
This is how I was taught to swim back in the late 90s! I remember like it was yesterday ❤
They should do it with shoes on. It’s most practical training, like no one walks around shoeless.
Most people walk around their own house shoeless, even their backyard, it’s not uncommon to see
@@Treeman-uk5qf yeah but most people don’t have pools in their house. So if they fall in water it’d be outside their house most likely, and who goes outside shoeless?
@@Treeman-uk5qf what’s the relevance of them wearing no shoes in the house when the subject is falling into water? :-/
Love this !!! Amaizng
Wow I can’t believe this is a new thing in the US. I am 35 we took swimming lessons between the ages of 6 and 12 which included this course in elementary school and get a diploma. In The Netherlands. Once a week the whole class would go to the local swimming pool and get lessons. I live in NY now so I’m happy this has started here now.
We did pyamas, clothes, coats and shoes
US doesn't care about its citizens - I thought this was established already :(
Everyone is talking about clothes, but also another important factor is footware, no goggles, and amount of clothes. In the event of an accident, that would cause panic. Not to mention in the colder months more clothes would be worn like sweater and jackets which is extremely heavy when worn in water.
My little sister and I need this lesson.
Wow such a great idea
I remember having to do that, with the drag it’s hard and I had to go end to end of the swimming pool (about 100m - 200m)
While I remember being that age and learning how to swim my dad was really a tough guy so he taught me and my sister the hard way LMAO😂😂😂
I had to do this as a kid once a year until I was 15 as a part of P.E in school. Annoying as hell when you had to carry all those wet clothes back to school, but important lesson. Also because I'm from Sweden we also had to practice climbing out of the ice with those safety ice picks in case we ever fell through the ice. It was actually really fun
Yes this is also how we teach where I worked as a swim coach
Good video
Me and my family were doing rafting on the rapids of a river when the rapids got unexpectedly intense and everyone fell from the boat. I was wearing jeans. The water made them so heavy that i probably got to the river bank in double the time I would have without them. That's ignoring countless other dangers that clothes can create in such a situation...
Long pants made of certain materials can be used as a floatation device by tying off the legs and blowing air into them. The materials expand when they absorb water making them airtight.
Yeah, but only if you can take them off, which, in a situation of emergency, you usually can't.
This is good to know. Extra weight, depending on the clothes you’re wearing, can make a big difference in the water.
Back in highschool in p.e swimming was a one of the things that we were forced to learn because few years ago a student and her family went to a pool party and she was the only one in her family who knew how to swim so when her little brother fell into the pool and started drowning her parent couldn’t get in to save him cause they didn’t know how to swim but because she was taught in p.e how to swim she hopped in and saved him. She came back to school the next day and told everyone about it and when the teachers heard about it that’s when they started making it a mandatory thing to learn
My sister did something similar in her swim class. The also taught her what to do if a boat ever capsized. A year after taking the course, she accidentally fell off a jet ski while on it with my cousin. She knew immediately what to do and she was only 7. I really do think stuff like this is important.
This is *so* smart
when i went swimming, we had days where we would come in in our pajamas, (this is in the uk btw) but yeah, i never thought about it but now i relise why it was so important.
One time at swimming at my school, we did this assesment on it where we would put clothes on and swim to see how hard it was, and the very certain chances of drowning, and near the end of the lesson, a group of people would be called to go in the water and take your clothes off (with their togs under) and they would swim all across the pool to the end, and hop out the water. Then another group would come and this would repeat until everyone had a turn.
It is part of getting your first 'diploma' in the NL. You have to demonstrate you can swim 10 meters fully clothed
That's a great idea. Also teach them with their shoes on.
i did this! i had to wear a heavy jacket and shoes! this definitely helped my swimming skills
Very Real situation
I see how useful this may be. I have swam for over 45 years. We used clothes to add resistance and train harder in competitive swimming. But if the goal is to prepare the kids for an "if" situation, then they should add shocking environment, debris in the water, and other real life/accident situations. True, clothes makes it harder but it's just another of the many elements that could present in an accident. Having said that, I do thank all those instructors out there who not only teach people how to defend themselves in water but also to love one of the most beautiful sports.
we've always done this in the netherlands
this was part of our school swimming lessions when i was kid
In high school PE, we had a day where we swam a lap in our street clothes, shoes included!
Great idea. Shoes, boots and bags next. You just never know.
Genius
I remember we were once told to come in our pajamas for the next swimming lesson and as a ~5 year old it sounded so fun lol now I know what they were trying to teach
In the Netherlands you get school swimming (for me that started when i was 5-6 years old) to earn your a A-swimming diploma to earn it involves alot of swimming exercises you need to be able to do that also includes swimming in normal clothes.
In australia we have been doing this for like 2 decades
i remember my dad just kinda throwing me into the water paniced for about 10 sec till i realized he was swimming back to shore. lets just say i was swimming since that day
Im a kid and i had to take a test (i had swim clothes underneath) i had a dress on top and they pushed me in the pool and i swam from the 8 feet all the way to 3
That's actually really smart
Makes sense.
Bruh i had this while is was learning how to swim in 2010 already!!!
This is how I swam since I was a kid lol. When I first wore a bathing suit it felt like gliding in water lol.
When I did swim lessons as a kind I remember the Monkey, Airplane, Rocket Phrase, it's good to see Kids learning to swim in clothes because you don't really know when you're gonna be next to water..
My school called alot of swimming things stuff, like when you were going to swim on your back they'd be like "monkey on the wall everyone!" so then you let go and start to swim on your back. It went until grade 5... Like c'mon I can do it myself! 😂
This is actually really smart
This is really important I would def take this class as an adult because I can’t swim
About 15 years ago when I was in primary school, swimming lessons were still mandatory and I recall most of the lessons were either for teaching endurance or to rescue yourself and others. You had to show up in clothes every now and then, swim for an hour, take them off in the water, and do excercises like diving 2 meters under the water to swim through a cutout in a canvas, or surface through a hole floating on the surface and try not to choke yourself by not finding it hahaha.
NEW?? This was a standard class during my childhood in school in sweden
I haven't swam in over 5 years, but thankfully I think I still can. I should definitely try doing it again.
So not a new idea. Part of My elementary swim classes, which was at least 22 years ago. But that was in Belgium
Weird dad and brother normally just threw me in after I learned to swim (pre cell phone days )
I would know the same thing. Yet, i went through a regular swimming class, bathing suit, and all. This just proves that you really don’t need to do all of that.
In Sweden this is mandatory in school. When you do it you have no idea why, but think about it for a moment and it makes sense. You need to learn to swim in clothing in case an accident happens and you end up in water. It's much heavier and more cumbersome.
It's funny how this was also uploaded on 4/20.
Swimming with clothes and shoes is very exhausting. I did it one summer many years ago, after i came from the garden and had just the spontanous idea to swim to the footbridge on the other side of the sea. Everything was fine, but as i was swimming back all my strength left me and at half part i felt like i would sinking now. I panicked and with my last strength i was swimming on my back and only using my also already exhausted legs. Was a horrible experience and i wouldn't recommend to swim with clothes and shoes in a sea and on longer distance. As long as you stay near the shore it should be alright.
Thats how i go back up to my bed when i fall during sleep- elbow elbow tummy knees
Yeah they never did it in my time but I remember my little brother being told to bring his pjs