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Episode 002 – Consistent Exposure and Physical Support

Transcript:

Jeff Wood: [00:00:00] What is going on, everyone. Welcome to the Swim Discovery™ podcast presented by SwimAble.com. We are your hosts, Jim wood and Jeff Wood and man. Oh man, we have got a good one for you today. We are going to outline the two key ingredients that help your child learn how to swim the fastest, and guess what, it has nothing to do with your child’s swim teacher.

So, Jim, are you ready to unpack this and actually. Give informative information to our parents, so that they can help their kids learn how to swim the fastest this summer.

Jim Wood: [00:00:33] I’m excited to do it. This is one of my favorite topics to talk about and,  I would say it’s maybe like two and a half things. It’s really two things.There might be a half there. There’s an extra little bonus that makes learning happen a little bit faster, then we’ll jump into. So let’s dive in because as Jeff said, most parents think that it’s the swim coach that makes the biggest difference on their child learning to swim. But that’s really not the case.

And we’ll have to dive into what those two reasons [00:01:00] are. So. Those two big reasons that help a child learn to swim are consistent exposure and physical support. And when you have a beginner swimmer, you can’t really have one without the other, but really it’s the consistent exposure that has been. Number one reason that kids learn to swim.

And if you’ve seen our previous podcast, you would know that the reason why swimming lessons are too slow is because. And exposure is less than it should be if you’re in a swimming lessons program.

Jeff Wood: [00:01:31] Well, I was just going to give an example that really helped paint the picture. And it’s how my brain loves to think about the exposure equation.When it relates to swimming lessons in particular. Let me take you back to when you were learning how to ride a bike, or maybe you were teaching a one of your kids how to ride a bike.

Jim Wood: [00:01:50] You’re stealing my example. I was going to do walking. With Baker right now. So you do your example, but I’ll do mine.

Jeff Wood: [00:01:56] Yeah, that sounds gre