This morning, Ryan had his swimming class. He was still asleep when we arrived at the pool, so it took some time for him to wake up and process that we were going swimming but, once he did, he was all smiles. He refused to wear his neoprene wetsuit again though, so I think we may need to get a new/different one for him.
There was a new exercise in the pool today - swimming through a tunnel.
Ryan's favourite activity is doing the jumps. He has yet to take a flying leap into the water though. Right now, it's a slow plunge off the side of the pool.
Ryan has made good progress in his swimming and he's pretty much mastered the baby exercises. In the past few months, Coach Dave has started introducing more advanced exercises and to be honest, I think that Ryan needs more water time, not just 30 minutes once a week, to master these advanced exercises, otherwise he'll be stuck at this current level for a long long time. So I'm thinking that I need to swim with Ryan during weekdays after work in our pool at home. Problem is, the water will be really cold - maybe I need to get a neoprene wetsuit for myself!
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Sometimes I think it might helps if there are slightly older kids in the pool, maybe before or after his class you can let him watch the older kids (if they have a older kids lesson) during their lesson time. Caleb has a slightly older looking child in his group who leaps of the pool during humpty dumpty, now at least him and another girl in the same grp is starting to leap of the pool too! Amazing!
Ophe, there are one or two kids in our class who leap feet first into the pool, but I think Ryan is thinking of doing the dive in style as if he's really going for a swim! Like starting his 100m freestyle race! hahaha
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