In this video lesson, Swimming Instructor Phillip Toriello teaches how to teach a child to dive.



Video Transcript: PHILLIP TORIELLO: "Hi, this is Phillip Torielle, and this is how to teach a child on how to dive. The first thing you want to remember is that children, innately, especially when they're younger, kind of have certain fears as far as the depth of the water is concerned. So, it's really best to adjust them by having them just jump into the water first. Jump onto noodles, jump into your hands, or even holding their hand as they jump into the water. Once they've acclimated to the jumping process of actually jumping into the water, and overcome the fears of getting their head wet, you can go ahead and ask them to start doing what we call a knee dive. I'm going to ask Callie to go ahead and pull herself up please. And we'll have Callie to ahead and get into the knee dive position. Can you get into the knee dive position by me? Thank you, now, so bring your toes close, the thing that I'd like you to notice is that we have her toes beneath her foot, we have her foot on the edge of the pool, and that Callie is hugging her ears as tightly as she can with her arms. And most importantly, keeping her head down and looking at her, What are you looking at Callee? Belly button. So, what we're going to do, to help support her is we're going to help her lean forward as much as she can attempting to, trying to touch the water with the tips of her fingers, cause we want to have the fingers go into the water first. As you can see I'm supporting her belly button, right here, just to help her as she slides into the water. How was it? It was the best. Can we do one more? How was it? Awesome. Once again, the most important thing to remember is to support the child either by holding the belly or their fingertips. Especially in working in smaller pools with, like a depth of like three and a half or a little bit higher. Hold onto their hands so you can guide them through the water to make sure that they don't hit their head. As a general rule, you don't really want to be diving in anything less than eight feet, but when working with children in smaller warmer pools, you just have to kind of work around that and make sure that you're looking out for their safety. To learn more about working with children and diving into pools contact your local swimming instructor."

1. How to Swim the Freestyle Stroke
2. How to Swim the Breaststroke
3. How to Swim the Backstroke
4. How to Practice Etiquette at Public Pools
5. How to Teach a Child to Swim
6. How to Swim Underwater
7. How to Flip-Turn When Swimming Freestyle
8. How to Flip-Turn When Swimming the Backstroke
9. How to Swim the Butterfly Stroke
10. How to Do an Eggbeater Kick
11. How to Swim Head-High Freestyle
12. How to Swim the Sidestroke
13. How to Swim the Trudgen Stroke
14. How to Turn While Swimming the Breaststroke
15. How to Survival Float
16. How to Teach a Child to Float in the Water
17. How to Teach a Child the Back Float
18. How to Teach a Child to Kick in the Water
19. How to Teach a Child Rhythmic Breathing in the Water
20. How to Teach a Child the Crawl Stroke
21. How to Teach a Child to Dive
22. How to Teach a Child to Tread Water
23. How to Prevent Swimmer's Ear
24. How to Improve Your Breaststroke Kick
25. How to Breathe While Swimming Freestyle

In this video series, Swimming Instructor Phillip Toriello gives 25 video lessons on How to Swim. Learn how to swim the breaststroke, the backstroke and freestyle. Get tips on how to do flip turns for each type of swimming stoke and find out how to do swimming kicks like the eggbeater kick. Want to get the kids involved in swimming too? Find out how to teach children to swim with tips on teaching the survival float and child diving. Swimming is a useful skill and a fun activity that provides great exercise for all.