Which buoyancy aid is best for overcoming fear in the swimming pool/lake?

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Hey you lovely

My primary concern is NOT how best to learn to swim, but rather which swimming aid is best for overcoming the fear of water and learning to feel safe and comfortable in the water.

Regardless of age

If you want to look at this separately, you can also differentiate between children, adolescents and adults 😅

hank19 · Answer

Swine

friedelwilfried · Answer

We used to put styrofoam boards under the abdomen. Great to swim 🏊 ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️ ♂️

fuchss09 · Answer

With swimming boards you can have fun, they give a but also very good boost when the powder goes out 😁😄 At least I find it funny to surf under water, is not so easy 😜😆

I don't like swimming wings like that, they're always in the way when you try to swim properly, as well as they're pretty tight and can get annoyed when dressing and pulling out. And inflating is also exhausting. 🙃

And I used to have a life jacket on a boat trip, but we didn't sink that's why I never really need to use it. But was ok from the wearing sensation ðŸTM‚ The vest and the floating wings have the advantage that they cannot swim away 😆

But I'm still for the swimming boards. Or for a swim course 😁

mickrik702 · Answer

which holds the body reliably on the water surface and thus the fear of drowning is removed from the base.

It offers the opportunity to move easily in the water and feel safe and comfortable.

In the next step, of course, it is important to learn to swim, and you have to overcome your fear again. This must never be tried too quickly and you always have to feel good in yourself, not to worsen fear.

anika2222 · Answer

Is very sure you can't go down with it and you can't lose it either.

aeroplanus · Answer

Because everything else does not support you in learning.

hamberlona · Answer

Everything's superfluous. You can get used to the flat water where you can stand. So I taught myself to swim, although I was traumatized: before my big sister had convinced me to use the slide in a deep pool, although I couldn't swim, she would catch me. What didn't work, of course, and I panicked.

holzbiene2024 · Answer

Swimming can mean breathing your head over water.

Before I was able to swim as a child, I sat under the water surface with mask and snorkel.

Then gradually try with which movements I get the head out of the water.

ibinwieibin · Answer

So I've only overcome the fear with a floating ring and then with a floating wing.

thesunrider · Answer

I am more for the belt, possibly in combination with floating fins, which provide for better propulsion.
I used the boards as a small child at the beginning, but you quickly get into a phase where the more disturb than use – at the latest when you are at the point where you want to "migtruders" with the poor.
With more powerful people, the board also goes under the float. Would you say that from 70 kilos up, it doesn't bring much more than help.

mohnpelz27 · Answer

My mother has already been able to swim slowly with 2 years ago by simply allowing me to go as far into the water as I wanted (they stood logically next) and felt safe I was then getting a little further into the water and when I found that I could not go on at some point I started laying in the shallow water and paddle after a year I could swim safely

it has worked great and my little brother has also learned to swim and my aunt has taken over this for her daughter so it is recommended