<p>Are there any good videos for swimming? I’m looking to learn how to swim. I mean right now I can hold my own but it’s kind of a struggle and I’m not too fast. So think of me as a beginner. Any videos I could get that would be good instructing me on how to swim? Or even boooks?</p>
<p>I took classes at my local community college when I was a little kid. You might try that. You’d have someone showing you and helping you perfect the motions, instead of just going off of a video.</p>
<p>which you probably couldnt watch while in a pool.</p>
<p>You want to watch a video while swimming to instruct you how to swim?</p>
<p>Hmm.</p>
<p>The Total Immersion series ( <a href=“http://www.totalimmersion.net/[/url]”>http://www.totalimmersion.net/</a> ), there are videos and books, its actually quite interesting. This is what a lot of triathletes use to improve on their swimming leg. It incorporates a lot of different ideas to teach you how to swim efficiently.</p>
<p>o_o Why a VIDEO to learn swimming? Just go to a pool and taking a class, for pete’s sake.</p>
<p>b/c swimming lessons cost a lot of money.</p>
<p>Grab a friend and get him to teach you.</p>
<p>no i do not want to watch the video as i swim. i want to watch the video before hand. study it. pick up the main points and work on them. practice and continue to study the video. i don’t understand why people neccesarily think you need to be active while watching an instructional video. i’ve seen instructional baseball batting videos. usually just watched it before I went off to practice on the tee or in the batting cage.</p>
<p>thank you jimstandard i will definitely look into that link you’ve provided.</p>
<p>No problem</p>
<p>No problem</p>
<p>bp-although swimming lessons may cost money, i think it might be easier (assuming you’re a college student) to find someone (classmate, etc) to teach you, or join an intramural swim club-thing. assuming your school has one</p>
<p>Join a club/intramural team, you’ll learn and be motivated. :D</p>
<p>the fastest way would be to find a friend thats a swimmer and take them to the pool.</p>
<p>ask a hot chick to teach you 
you might learn faster. or slower.</p>
<p>My school offers beginning swimming lessons for little or no cost to students. Perhaps your school does the same?</p>
<p>Please, as an advanced swimmer and former member of a swim team, I advise you to take a class, or have a GOOD swimmer teach you. Swimming is completely different than say, yoga, or taebo, or cooking. Water is a funny thing. You can’t adequately describe things like how to float, or how to flutter your feet and stroke your arms. If the deciding factor is embarrasment, which would be more embarrasing, having to look silly in a class with a dozen other old people looking silly as well, or going to try out your skills at the public pool or a party and having a hundred people laugh at you while a lifeguard has to stop everything to fish you out?</p>