WARNING! This video is hilarious.
I thought it was dead at first. That would be pretty fucked up.
Why is that funny?
How is that funny?
I think this is something every parent should teach their child if they have a pool, seems smart if you know how to teach it properly.
Also that baby’s face is underwater for like a good 7-8 seconds, I’d get worried at 10.
If you want to teach your kids how to swim, take them in the water and hold them at chest height and support them if they fail. Give them swimmies for their arms. Don’t throw them in the goddamn water and cheer them from land.
[quote]Shammy wrote:
I think this is something every parent should teach their child if they have a pool, seems smart if you know how to teach it properly.
Also that baby’s face is underwater for like a good 7-8 seconds, I’d get worried at 10.[/quote]
I agree, done correctly and extremely safely, it’s a good idea to teach the kid to save himself in that instance.
But I don’t see how it’s funny, or crossfit.
This was on the news a couple of months ago. Its not about teaching infants to swim, its about teaching them to float, ie not drown, if they fall in the water when they wander away. They even do it with kids younger than that.
http://www.flixya.com/video/127623/Teaching_Babies_to_Float
Its like teaching kids sign language before they are capable of talking.
[quote]njrusmc wrote:
If you want to teach your kids how to swim, take them in the water and hold them at chest height and support them if they fail. Give them swimmies for their arms. Don’t throw them in the goddamn water and cheer them from land.[/quote]
Really? Which works faster? From the looks of the video, they threw that kid in once, pulled him out when he failed to save himself, told him to float on his back (probably for the second time), and launched him into the water.
After a few seconds of thrashing, the kid realizes no one can save him but himself, and that he’s faced with a do or die decision. Then he chills out, turns over, and is fine.
Taking several summers to teach kids to swim, or god forbid shelling out $40 a day to some lifeguard who has no idea what the fuck they’re doing to teach your kid to swim is not only an insult to your own genetics but an insult to the competency of your child as a human being.
Remember that Childhood is an invention of the 20th Century.
The fastest way to teach a kid to swim is to first teach them that they can survive in the water without the aid of any life vest or floaties or anything.
What you saw right there was literally a “total immersion” teaching style. Screw all this “visual learner” or “auditory learner” crap. Everyone is a “total immersion” leaner.
Why is this video hillarious? This child, like so many others, is FREAKING OUT before he’s thrown into the water. But after 7 seconds or so (in which the viewer thinks he’s watching a snuff film) the kid gains an enormous amount of mental maturity in a split second.
[quote]Stuntman Mike wrote:
Shammy wrote:
I think this is something every parent should teach their child if they have a pool, seems smart if you know how to teach it properly.
Also that baby’s face is underwater for like a good 7-8 seconds, I’d get worried at 10.
I agree, done correctly and extremely safely, it’s a good idea to teach the kid to save himself in that instance.
But I don’t see how it’s funny, or crossfit.
[/quote]
It was on Crossfit.com
After further review, the parents suck.
They let their kid wear crocs.
I’ve seen these videos before, with younger kids. It is so amazing to watch them freak, then say screw it and pull themselves together and flip over. I watched a video where a small baby rolled over and floated on it’s back for over five minutes (his mother was in the pool just out of eyesight).
Wow that is impressive.
[quote]FightingScott wrote:
After further review, the parents suck.
They let their kid wear crocs. [/quote]
My thoughts exactly.
[quote]FightingScott wrote:
After further review, the parents suck.
They let their kid wear crocs. [/quote]
hahahaha, I failed to notice that.
And your right, it’s really not funny now, they are setting that kid up for a life time of mockery, unless ya know, the kid becomes a gardener or a chef.
edit: and my fault, didn’t notice the web address either
THIS IS CROSSFIT!!!
Intentional double post. Testing why my posts aren’t appearing right away.
EDIT: Apparently its a server issue. Mystery solved. Sorry for the small hijack.
[quote]theuofh wrote:
This was on the news a couple of months ago. Its not about teaching infants to swim, its about teaching them to float, ie not drown, if they fall in the water when they wander away. They even do it with kids younger than that.
http://www.flixya.com/video/127623/Teaching_Babies_to_Float
Its like teaching kids sign language before they are capable of talking. [/quote]
Teaching kids sign language before they can speak is gimmicky nonsense though, or was that your point?
On another note, if I was going to teach my baby to float I would probably do it the way they did in your video rather than just dropping the child into the water and risking any water inhalation. Then after they could do it I might try the straight up dropping technique.
[quote]theuofh wrote:
This was on the news a couple of months ago. Its not about teaching infants to swim, its about teaching them to float, ie not drown, if they fall in the water when they wander away. They even do it with kids younger than that.
http://www.flixya.com/video/127623/Teaching_Babies_to_Float
Its like teaching kids sign language before they are capable of talking. [/quote]
My parents did something similar to that.