Of learning to swim

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"  In swimming there is the danger of drowning, so always take care that you do not drown. 

Typically people learn to swim by first walking to so low water that your head is on the top of water and your palms touch the bottom. So you can move your hands like walking, which is in Finnish said to be "handsbottom". 

Always move toward lower water or as low as you walked to. 

Then you need to learn how hand movements keep your head on top of the water. So go so deep that when you kneel, the water is maybe 10cm lower than your shoulders. You need to learn how hand movements move you. Push your hands downwards in front of you. That ought to lift you upward, and so safeguard you against drowning. Doing it alternatively left, right, left,... are the hand movements of swimming "dog". 

If you have palms maybe 45degree angle to the sides, moving them first forward straight hands and then each hand as straight a quater of a circle, that ought to keep your head up and keep a nice relaxed way of moving, swimming "frog". 

With these, if you are handbottom deep, go foot movements, in "dog" kicking somewhat like walking. And in swimming "frog" kicking both feet maybe 45 degrees sides and then pushing the feet together, this like works well with the hand movements. 

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