How Oscar Learned To Swim: Putting The Swimming and Breathing Together

by Benjamin Roberts

Benjamin Roberts is a very respected and experienced swimming instructor. He is also a School Teacher of children with additional needs and Author of the hugely popular book ‘Learn to swim.’ Here he has hidden the methodology of teaching a beginner to swim within the heart-warming story of how he taught his own son Oscar. This book is the fifth and final book in the 'How Oscar Learned to Swim' series and focuses on the essential skills needed to combine the breathing and the swimming together to ensure that our swimmer can refuel regularly and thereby swim longer distances effectively and without panic. It develops the skill set of the swimmer who has already learned and mastered the skills in books one, two, three and four. By now they will know how to turn their glide into a swim by making the biggest slowest circular arm movements they can whilst maintaining a good body position and an effective kick. They will know how to breathe in a stationary position and by using the floats and hand supported technique. However, until they learn to breathe independently whilst actually swimming, the distances they swim will be greatly limited. By the end of book five they will know everything they need to swim and breathe with complete independence. The idea behind the series of books is simple, you and your child read and enjoy the story at home as a traditional story book and then practice what Oscar practiced with his Dad. Follow Oscar Roberts on his journey from being a nervous non-swimmer to a competent swimmer who can swim front crawl and breathe over the course of the five books. The books are aimed at parents, step-parents, grandparents and so on who simply want the pleasures and rewards associated with teaching their own children to swim but don’t know how. They are also ideal for parents who are unable to afford the expense of lessons and for those who are stuck on endless waiting lists for tuition. It’s a great fun family project and will give both you and your child an enormous sense of achievement. Enjoy!

44 pages, Paperback

Published July 19, 2017