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In this section I'm going to talk about step number nine, and step number nine is kind
of like, you just want to take your time with each child. So, you want to take your time
with each step. You never want to move on to the next step, so if you started from holding
them and supporting them, and just kind of having them kick around the water, to blowing
bubbles, to floating on their face, to moving the arms, then kicking the legs, you never
want to go onto the next section and get ahead of whomever you're teaching how to swim. So,
what I mean by that is, don't be two or three steps ahead of them because then their going
to end up not being encouraged to learn at all. So, you want to conquer one section at
a time, and then move onto the next one, so you'll want to start with just kicking the
legs, and supporting them, and then you'll want to start into you know, blowing the bubbles,
and then floating on the face and that's really, really important when you're teaching anybody
how to swim. Well, what tends to happen is people will do lessons and you may have spent
a lot of money doing the lesson, but yet whomever it was that was going to these lessons never
learned anything, and it could be a couple of months to a year, to two years, and then
finally they find that one person who they only spent a couple of times with, maybe within
a two week time frame, and they learned so much more than they've learned for that you
know, past few lessons, and the reason being is because you really want to make sure that
they learn each one and they understand what their doing, and why their doing it, and then
move onto the next one. In step number nine, what you want to do just like I had mentioned
before in continuation with it, you just want to take your time, so take your time as far
as blowing the bubbles, doing the airplane, kicking your feet on the wall, and also having
them just kick their feet and then just going you know, with their arms in front of them
from one side of the pool to the other side of the pool.