Update: Javier Swim lesson

Currently, Javier is into his 3rd month of swimming class – 9th lesson. He  is progressing well in his swimming lesson, but he still show some reluctant-ness  when it is time for his swimming lesson. In order to divert his attention, I am grateful for the bigger kids playing with him to lessen his fear when it is time for his lesson. He do enjoy playing water a lot, but that could not be said when it comes to swimming lesson. 

Swim Lesson Update: Its all about jumping and leaping!!!

There’s certainly a lot of jumping involve in today lesson! I quite like these 2 shots of the boys leaping into the water. ^^

Javier’s 1st Swimming Lesson

I have always feel that this little boy love water a lot and truly a brave one who present no fear when comes to dipping his head, jumping into the water or holding his breadth for a long time inside the water! I had wanted to let him start learning swimming as soon as the coach is willing to accept him. The one criteria that this coach is very firm is that the kid’s must be able to stand in the medium pool with his face above the water level. Finally my boy is eligible thus I quickly inform the coach to secure a place for him in the next new class (this coach is so popular that his class get filled up very quickly and not only that … with many kids in waitlist too). I like this coach, mainly because he is very patient with every kids, he was especially nice to Jayden when he started his swim lesson 1 year plus ago, knowing that he has a fear in water. Till now, he still talk to him gently and be very patient with him. Really thumbs up for this coach!!!


My boys seems to be the youngest among the group, but age doesn’t matter at all…. He was a very brave and confident boy today. 

Jayden’s Bronze Level Swimming Test

Sometime back in April, Jayden took his Bronze level swimming test. The test include life saving – throwing rope, breaststroke, backstroke, survival backstroke, freestyle and front & back flip. I am glad to see that he had done well in this test and he passed!!!!!!

In case you can’t spot Jayden, he is the one wearing blue shorts. (For bronze level test, the kid is required to put on a short sleeve tee and shorts)

Update - Swim Lesson

It’s been sometime since I last update on Jayden’s swimming lesson. Today the lesson touches mainly on life saving stroke. 2 kids were group together to practice this, and Jayden got to buddy with his good friend Wei Jun.

Perhaps it was the positioning of his body (seems abit funny to me) that makes him seems real tedious to pull Wei Jun along.

Swimming Lesson (Learning Flip)

Currently, he is learning different type of flip. It is not an easy one…  I could see that he was about to tear when he started learning this, but I am glad to see that he preserve and did not give up.

 

Swimming Lesson

Due to the rainy weather and festive period for the past 2 months, Jayden had missed quite a number of lessons. Thus he totally lost the momentum in his swimming, and the worst part is that he wanted to stop his swimming class and was super reluctant to go for his swim class for the past 2 weeks. So I was glad to see that he is slowly back to his old self and gaining more confidence in his swimming today. (No more a teary boy telling us that that he don’t want to swim anymore)

Swim lesson 18

Due to the rainy weather for the past one month and our Aussie Trip, Jayden has missed quite a number of lessons, thus he was very reluctant to come to his swim lesson today. He even whine and cry when we reached the swimming complex and took us a full 20 minutes to coax cum threaten him to go for his swim lesson. Hmmm…. real tiring!

Today besides practicing their backstroke and breaststroke, they learnt free style using the board after which the next 20 minutes was left for the deep pool.

Swim Lesson 16

Jayden is already into his 4th month of swimming lesson. A new thing namely foam buoy is introduced to them today with the purpose of developing upper body strength and proper alignment in the water during swimming. The buoy is held between the legs to neutralize the kicking motion and increase upper body strength.

It certainly adds a degree of difficulty for the kids when they swam today.

Swimming Lesson 15

They started off with practicing their backstroke. Jayden is getting pretty good in this and kept telling me that the coach praise him and comments that his backstroke is good! ;O

Swimming Lesson 14

Boy was in a super good mood today and couldn’t wait to jump into the water when we arrived at the pool. Normally if time permit, he would play and warm up while waiting for his coach to arrive. The last couple of lesson, he has been learning survival backstroke, he has more or less grasp the technique. So today they are moving on to learning competitive backstroke.

Swimming Lesson 13

Finally Jayden is back to his bubbly self before going for his swimming lesson today. He was so proud of himself that he told me “Mummy, I’m a good boy today, I never cry.” :D

For the past few lessons, they would spend 2nd half hr of their swimming lesson in the deep pool swimming with guidance from the instructor and also learning to tread water.

Swimming Lesson 12

It’s fast! Jayden has already learn swimming for 3 month as of today. All was going well for him until he fell sick during Lesson 10, and from lesson 11 onwards, coaxing him to go for his swim lesson is a torture for all of us. :( He would give us all sort of excuses to free him from going for his lesson… he would cry la… throw tantrum la…. . And of course, we coax, threaten abit and drag him abit to make him go. We doesn’t want him to stop now as we know he enjoys the swimming lesson alot and most of all, he is progressing well now.

And of course, our guess weren’t wrong, twice after the lesson he told us ‘he is only joking, and of course he wanted to continue with the swim lesson!” :P

For my other boy wasn’t very keen to have a dip for these few weeks, thus we will explore my camera while we waited for Jayden to finish his lesson.

Swimming Lesson 8

Since the the previous lesson, Jayden has started to learn backstroke. He can swim a short distance using backstroke now, though he still need to practice more in his leg kicking and strengthen his ability to float in the water for a longer time.

The kids lying down to practice their backstroke’s leg kicking.

Jayden Swimming Lesson 7

He has gotten the green light from his instructor in his breaststroke swimming. He is now moving on to learning backstroke and he is enjoying it every bit.

Jayden Swimming Lesson 6

They look forward to the swimming lesson on every Sunday. And of course one is there to learn and one is there to play. Jayden is progressing well into his swimming lesson and enjoyed it very much. The good point about this coach which I mentioned earlier is he is serious in his coaching and at the same time he would make the lesson fun for the kids. He would make sure every kids is able to learn the skills taught for that lesson, even though that means he had to stay back after the lesson to give some of the kids extra coaching.

Jayden’s 3rd swimming lesson

This video was taken after Jayden’s swimming lesson today. It’s a really big improvement from the 1st lesson where he is so fearful of the water. He can swim a short distance without assistance now, although his stroke is still not quite right yet.

Jayden’s Breakthrough….

I am so happy to see that Jayden have overcome his fear of water! :D Initially I was rather impatient with him and seeing that he refused to try submerging in the water when we asked him to today.. I got mad!!!! *( But after cooling down I slowly guided Jayden with patient and lots of encouragement… He DID it!!!!

We love going to swimming pool!

We brought the boys to the pool this evening after getting a new goggles for him at Northpoint shopping centre after his Icreative class.

He looks so ease in the 1.2m pool.

Jayden 1st Swimming Lesson

Jayden started his swimming lesson today. I am not sure whether he would love it or hate it after the 1st lesson. But he seems pretty nervous during most part of the lesson. He wasn’t very willing to put his head in the water to breathe and blow bubble, but at least he tried when the instructor asked him to… well it wasn’t as bad as what I had predicted.My little boy was also excited although he is just here to play and splash water.