How old is the best time to learn to swim?
From a child's point of view, the main objective factors that determine a child's learning speed of swimming are physiological and psychological factors.
1. Physical factors
1. 1 Requirements on physical strength, whether the body is good enough to avoid getting sick. Learning will be faster, and you need to have enough physical strength in the process of practice. Of course, physical strength can develop slowly, which is also a factor that affects learning progress. Children with good physical strength can practice 10 laps (500m) for one hour and 5 laps (50m) for one hour. After the first period (10 class), the teaching effect will be different by 1 times.
1.2 has good coordination and is more helpful to teaching. If the coordination is not good, the brain can not effectively control the coordination of hands and feet, reduce the number of exercises, and affect the teaching effect. For example, if you walk and wrestle smoothly, you will not jump if you learn roller skating or scooter slowly. At this time, some people simply don't believe that you can't jump on land, so a 5.5-year-old student who is teaching now can't jump. The average student can learn the breaststroke leg in three classes, but the speed and distance are different, but they will definitely push forward. Students with good coordination will have more laps of the same physical exercise and the effect will be better.
2. Psychological quality
For beginners, it is mainly reflected in two aspects:
2. 1 Anti-frustration ability
When learning any knowledge and skills, we will encounter all kinds of problems. Whenever we encounter a problem, how do we treat it? Do we choose to find the corresponding solution, or can't think of any good method and try to find a good one slowly, or do we just escape and choose to leave. For example, children who have just learned to swim choose to practice directly when holding their breath and taking a breath, and gradually deepen according to the requirements of the coach; Or practice slowly, practice a few and then practice other movements; Don't practice directly, you may not be able to practice a few for a long time. The teaching effect of the three is gradually decreasing.
2.2 adaptability
In psychology, psychological adaptation usually refers to the process that when the external environment changes, people make a dynamic response through the self-regulation system, so that their psychological activities and behaviors are more in line with the requirements of environmental changes and their own development, and the subject and the environment reach a new balance.
In the process of learning to swim, sometimes you will encounter waves, sometimes someone will suddenly get in front of you during swimming, and sometimes you will meet many people in this lane. How to adapt to these changes is particularly important!
A few days ago, there was a student A (male 9 years old). A has classes at 19:00, and B (male 9 years old) has classes at 20:00. B came early. This is the first time they met in the swimming pool. Two children want to play for a while. After playing for 5 minutes, A went on with the class and A didn't want to learn. B learned breaststroke and backstroke freestyle earlier than A. A just learned breaststroke and learned to swim through the introduction of B's parents. Most people have a desire to express themselves. When they meet classmates or have the opportunity to show themselves, they will try their best to show their advantages. B is no exception. I just want to compete with A in the process of playing. A hasn't learned breaststroke yet and can't play. But A intends to finish the course.
He said, "I want to go home."
I said, "What's the matter? What's the matter? "
He said, "Isn't B all here? Isn't class already over? "
In fact, he knows that class starts at B20:00, and he also knows the watch. There are still 10 minutes before class is over.
I said, "Isn't B going to compete with you? B learns early and swims better than you. This is normal. Didn't you just learn? "
He said, "I don't want to swim."
Seeing that he was simply avoiding the problem, he couldn't wait to leave, as if he had failed, and he was particularly afraid of being inferior to B, so he said, "Let's play!" Stimulate him to find a gap.
I said, "Yes, take a bath and go home!" "
He said, "I'm not leaving. I will continue to practice. "
Interesting, isn't it? He kept trying to escape, but he didn't leave when he was asked to. He is still in a panic, even if people leave, the feelings that are pressed in his heart are still there. Unexpectedly, I will really let him go. He felt a little sick again, and he couldn't react at all.
After practicing for a few minutes, I couldn't do what I could, and I was particularly scared when I entered the water.
His mother has been there. I immediately said to her, "Stop talking about him and pretend it never happened. Don't pressure him. He is reluctant. "
These things can happen. Different children have different reactions and different learning progress.
Why did you learn to swim? Is it learning a skill or developing physically and mentally? If you are learning skills, it is not something you will hear occasionally. The more primary schools, the better. I have never taught children aged 0-3. At present, I have only seen a 2.5-year-old child learn to swim from teaching in 2007, but he has not learned a few classes, and each class can only last for half an hour, mainly to accompany him to adapt to the water. When I was three and a half years old, I taught two students (so far). In the first stage, both of them could swim at least 50 meters. One taught a boy in 2009 (a recruit Weide Fitness Club in Meijiang Wanke Crystal City, Hexi District, Tianjin), and the other taught a boy in 20 12 years (Huayuan Oushan Fitness Club, Nankai District, Tianjin).
I remember that in 2009, when his parents took him to psychological counseling, he was very thin. Entering the swimming pool is like running around like a clockwork alarm clock, and it can't stop at all, which is a bit like ADHD. Other coaches are afraid to teach. At that time, I thought, "skins are not terrible, as long as they can be surrendered, there will be no problem." In this way, I teach with faith and solve any problems I encounter. He also works hard and his parents are very cooperative. He can swim 50 meters in the first phase (/kloc-class 0/2).
Qianer Qianer of 12 was introduced to study by a student's parents. At that time, he went to kindergarten in Germany and the United States, and received "sensory integration training" at school (sensory integration refers to the process and function that the human brain analyzes, processes and integrates information from various sensory organs of the body, and then directs the human body to respond appropriately to make the whole body coordinate and operate effectively. It can also be understood that the brain controls the coordination of the body. ) This is of great help to swimming learning. The results are also encouraging. The first phase (class 12) can swim 100 meters.
The two children have a common feature, that is, their psychological quality is particularly good and their physical quality is also very good. These two students are one in a thousand, and now they really have never seen or taught such students. It's really hard to meet.
Here I can tell you for sure that the younger the students under the age of 6, the more difficult it is to teach. It is a common phenomenon that their abilities in all aspects are not very good.
Children aged 3-6, the older they are in primary school, the slower their reaction will be. 4, 5-year-old children, they are a little afraid of water, a considerable number of children are afraid of boxing in the shower.
Their physical strength is not very good. Compared with children over 8 years old, they are not at the same level at all. Five-year-old children can practice about 5 laps (250 meters) in a class, and children over 8 years old can practice about 10 laps (500 meters), and the effect is twice as bad.
The younger a child is, the worse his understanding will be. 2, 3-year-old children don't even communicate smoothly, and they will guide their thinking to express their ideas. Learning to swim will have some technical terms, which will become more difficult for them. Many children simply don't know what pedaling is and how to pedal. This requires a little teaching and repeated practice by the coach, which takes time.
So children under 6 can't learn to swim?
Sure, just learn slowly and teach one-on-one. Generally, you can learn well in the second stage (swimming more than 200 meters continuously). One to five must have at least three classes to learn well.
So when is the best time to learn to swim?
In Dr. Wei's collection of family education-"Sports Brain | How to Cultivate Children's Sports Ability?" Wrote:
Sports ability is actually closely related to cognitive ability. Because the brain area that needs to be activated when people exercise coincides with the brain area that carries out cognitive activities to a great extent, we can predict the future cognitive ability of children from their sports ability. ? What I'm talking about today is a lot of exercise, which refers to the exercise of using large muscle groups such as arms, feet or the whole body.
A lot of exercise can make the brain run at high speed, which has a great influence on cognitive ability.
Rough exercise has many advantages, one of which is the large amount of exercise, so it can increase the child's cardiopulmonary function, provide more blood and oxygen to the brain, make the brain work more efficiently, and make the child more energetic physically and mentally.
From June 2065438 to June 2006, the University of Exeter published a report, which summarized many studies in this field and pointed out that physical exercise can improve brain ability and academic performance. They believe that the time spent doing sports is absolutely not wasted, even from the point of view of performance, it is worthwhile.
A little difference in gross exercise as a child has a great influence on the future. For example, scientists from Curtin University of Science and Technology in Australia measured the motor ability of infants from 4 months to 4 years old, and then looked at their performance in primary school six years later. It was found that infants with strong motor ability at first, and later working memory, is a kind of short-term memory, and the information processing speed is better.
On the other hand, a study conducted by the University of Eastern Finland in 20 13 also found that children with poor motor ability performed worse in reading and mathematics in the three years after entering primary school. And I also want to emphasize that there is no difference between boys and girls. Both men and women have strong athletic ability, so the baby's cognitive ability will be better in the future. (The content source of the above horizontal line-get the family education anthology of columnist Dr. Wei-"Sports brain | How to cultivate children's sports ability? 》)
The earlier children exercise, the better their cognitive ability, and the earlier they learn to swim, the better!
If you still have questions about swimming, you can ask parents with children around you to see how long they have been studying. Remember to watch the swimming video? Swimming 2 meters is different from 20 meters and 200 meters, and posture is also very important. Is it dog planing or breaststroke? This standard must be clear. You can also ask the swimming coach how long it takes to swim more than 200 meters.
For the sake of children's physical and mental health, let's learn to swim quickly together! Come on, children, look forward to your joining!
?