Were you going to the pool regularly and swimming in a life jacket? The transition from swimming with flotation to swimming without is one that everyone makes (unless they learn how to swim perfect front crawl in the shallow end before ever trying out the deep end). Kids can make it quite suddenly, and although I can usually tell what they’re doing differently (body position, arm and leg movements, etc), I don’t think they can.
Yeah, I was, although it was usually with a kickboard rather than a life jacket. I did stay out of water I couldn’t stand in, but three to four feet of water is still deep enough to swim in.
Were you going to the pool regularly and swimming in a life jacket? The transition from swimming with flotation to swimming without is one that everyone makes (unless they learn how to swim perfect front crawl in the shallow end before ever trying out the deep end). Kids can make it quite suddenly, and although I can usually tell what they’re doing differently (body position, arm and leg movements, etc), I don’t think they can.
Yeah, I was, although it was usually with a kickboard rather than a life jacket. I did stay out of water I couldn’t stand in, but three to four feet of water is still deep enough to swim in.