Most people learn how to swim when they are very young. Learning how to swim is especially important if you live near the coast or a river. With a lot of people having a home swimming pool and drownings increasing every year, learning how to swim is more important than ever.
Confidence in the water can be very hard to attain and is easily lost. Proper instruction is needed to teach children the most important skill - how to stay afloat. Once a child is used to the water and able to keep themselves afloat then learning how to swim will be a lot easier.
Many people put off learning how to swim until they are adults, and are then embarrassed to admit they can't swim. We teach thousands of adults to learn to swim privately each year so you're not alone! Learning how to swim in a private pool is by far the most comfortable way for adults to learn whereas children sometimes get a competitive drive from being in group classes.
If you can swim, it's a skill that will last you for the rest of your life. Swimming is a very low impact sport so will serve you well into old age where joint pain and impact can be debilitating.