Speech About Swimming

“Legs kicking, arms spinning. As I push off the end of the pool, the water rushes out of my way. I glide through the water straight as a pencil. My legs go up and down, over and over. My arms go round and round like a windmill. I turn my head up and take a breath.” That is how Jenna Ward (November 8, 2016) described the feeling of swimming. Everyone should be able to feel the thrill of accomplishing something so important as swimming. Swimming is a life-saving skill all people should learn to do. I have a personal experience with the need to know how to swim. My neighbor drowned when she was five-years-old. She was swimming at a friend’s house. When no one was watching she jumped in the deep end. She didn’t know how to swim, so she never was able to come back up after going under. Her parents were busy with her younger siblings, so they didn’t see her jump. If she knew how to

Fourth, some people think swimming in school is dangerous because kids could drown. In fact, there have been some cases of students drowning during or after gym class, like the stories of Abdullahi and Shuai. 12-year-old Abdullahi Charif was dead two days after he was found in the deep end of a school pool during his gym class. Shuai Jiang was found dead in the school’s pool twenty minutes after his gym class ended. He was only thirteen (Kim McGuire March 5, 2014). Although these are tragic stories, normally swim lessons aren’t as risky as going swimming and not actually being able to swim. Robert Swanberg (1/18/18) is a retired gym teacher who taught middle schoolers how to swim for twenty-five years. He said that he taught thirty-five to fifty-five students at a time, most times being by himself. He never had anyone get hurt, or drown. He had previously been a lifeguard, and he was able to do water rescues. He thought that the most important skills to have to be able to swim safe were to know your limits, swim with a buddy, and be aware of others. Swimming can be safely taught at