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Why learning how to swim is a worthwhile pursuit 

There are lots of useful things that people should take the time to learn, but when it comes to your health and safety and even life, there are few skills as useful as knowing how to swim.  

Everyone may think that it won’t happen to them, that they fall from a boat or their boat sinks or the current is just a bit too strong and unpredictable and they are swept away from shore. Until it does. Events like these happen all the time, all over the world to people who think that it wouldn’t ever happen to them. Something like this could happen to you or someone you know and knowing how to swim as well as being confident in the water will help increase your odds of getting out of one of these unlucky situations in a safe manner. 

If you somehow end up in the water and you don’t know how to swim, it's too late to do anything about it. Now is the best time to learn how to navigate yourself in water, confidently and safely. 

Learning how to swim will provide you with a useful skill that will be useful forever and it's not just a useful tool for keeping you safe. Knowing how to swim, opens up many fun water based activities for you, which you may have been unable or too scared to do previously. 

Who should learn how to swim?

Learning how to swim from a young age ensures that you have a potentially lifesaving skill but being an adult isn't a reason to prevent you from learning now. Anyone who is interested in staying safe should take the time to learn.  

But staying safe and learning how to swim to prevent yourself from drowning isn't the only reason why learning how to swim may be a good choice for you. You may already know how to swim but you still may not be fully confident in the water or you are hoping to improve your technique and stamina. 

If you enjoy water-based sports then you are more likely to be in a situation where something could go wrong. Knowing that if it were to happen but you have the skills and knowledge to navigate it safely will help you to enjoy your activity more, without having to worry about the “what if”. 

Becoming more confident in the water 

By having proper instruction, training and practice from swimming classes and a good teacher, you will be able to greatly improve your technique and overall fitness, giving you the tools to know how to manoeuvre through water in an efficient way, while also having the stamina to go a decent distance. 

Knowing that you can now swim properly and not get tired within a minute will result in you being much more comfortable when in the water, allowing you to enjoy pools, the beach and so on, without being afraid. A big reason why many people aren't putting their head underwater is because they aren't comfortable in the water - which is normally due to not really knowing how to swim. 

Getting a tutor to learn new strokes in Cork

Even if you already know how to swim you may feel like you can’t do a particular stroke well, front crawl for example. Having proper guidance on the best technique for the front crawl and what sort of breathing you should use isn’t knowledge that you will just know.  

By having a teacher, you will of course learn the best methods of using that stroke and the knowledge as to when to use a particular stroke over another. Learning how to move in water and how to float is a good start but there is a lot more to learn if you are hoping to become a better, stronger and faster swimmer.