Most people have a healthy fear of water. Being relaxed and confident in a medium where you lose your ability to breathe is a skill that has to be learned – we have a number of preparation exercises for children to help them gain confidence in water.

Liking to playing in water and swimming skills are unfortunately not closely related. However, if a kid likes to be in a pool and has no fear of  – for example – going underwater for a moment and knows how to hold its breath, it will be able to learn to swim fast!