He's creating the conditions he would feel if was actually drowning in open water. The point isn't learning to swim, its to learning to overcome the panic that comes with drowning.

Everytime i watch videos like this I cant't breathe no joke I hold my breathe for some reason

I always had a fear of swimming. I’m now learning how to swim. To anyone else with this fear. The only way you will learn how to swim is to learn not to panic when the water takes you. Go with the flow. The moment you panic - you drown. Trust me when I say your body knows how to swim and your instincts will kick in when you RELAX. It’s all in your head. You can overcome this fear. And when you do - you will love the water! I promise!!

I have summer gym tomorrow and the swim teacher always makes me go to the deep end even though I tell her I can barely swim and if she tells me to go off the diving board I'm pulling a fucking Luke Skywalker and turning around and grabbing the board I aint drowning today no sir.

I get really scared to swim in deep water I always have to be able to touch the ground

Already panicking just watching this and I'm not even in the water yet. lulz...

I've been applying these techniques to stay afloat and kick off from the deeper part of the pool, and it has helped me a lot. Thank you

I´m dealing with fear to the deep water and this video really helps. Thank you so much for sharing it!

If I don't have goggles even in a pool I just can't swim, I feel better being able to see where I'm swimming.

That’s exactly what I was thinking right before your video ended! You’re literally teaching me how to save my own life. THANK YOU!!! 💙

I'm frickin 4'11 an in my swimming lessons I'm pretty sure I have to go to 12 ft water and spoiler alert I'm gonna die

Could you do a tutorial on how to open a door? I'm in a room and i have NO idea how to get out.

That pool is a little too deep for my liking. I really want to learn how to swim, but unless I get over my fear of drowning, I will never end up in one. Just watching this video caused me some anxiety.

I liked the jumping practice :)

Thank you for the kind advice,my son has liked it and needs this advice for level 8 thank you👍👍👍

I think if ur in a "life or death" situation. You'd learn how to swim right then and there to survive.

very nice dude. Kudos for going thru all the trouble to make it for people like me. I am definitely gonna try this. One question though- When we exhale we usually tend to go down but if you have good amount of air in your lungs then that keeps you floating so according to you if I exhale while already in the water would that not make me go down further in the water??? :(

Because of how I was taught, I find swimming underwater a lot easier than swimming on the surface of it. Which I guess gives me a slight advantage if I sink. But I'd prefer not to sink in the first place. I can do front crawl but haven't mastered the breathing. (But now I think of it front crawl is more of a competitive style of swimming that is unnecessary) I want to learn how to tread water and breast-stroke. I think if I know how to do those well I'll be a lot more confident in and around water.

Thank you now i will graduate from the best sinker a title i have held for long!

"Inhale above the water" thanks for the advise

WTF? If you can stay near and grab on to the edge, you're not in need of surviving.

thankyou....this video will help me from drowning....and overcome my fear...thanx bud..😊

Thank you. I’ve learned more in this video then in my swimming lessons

that made me more comfortable in the water thank you for your help that will help me so much on swimming in my pool on my own ty so much

I took my third swimming lesson today. Yesterday I drowned and the instructor got me out. Today she was just chatting with someone when I drifted far and drowned. a near by woman got me out. Now I'm just scared 😦I felt like I hated swimming suddenly.

Our pool at school is 13 feet

i dont know how to swim, i only knew how to swim underwater and float on my back and just recently i started learning treading on my own, but this is what i always do when i start since im a slow started it takes me long to get used to water... so this is what i do some drowning simulation to get rid of the fear of water then start letting go of the edge slowly but still wont go far except if i had someone who knows how to swim with me so i rest assured that i'd be rescued if i messed up x'D

lol watching this gives me anxiety.I want to learn and I'm almost 18:/

You helped me learn to swim. you saved my life

So amazing swimming talent.. keep it up and more share how to swim and be safe as well.. keep going on... Continue vloggings.. Godbless

2019??? Anyone?

Awesome.. Thanks for the technique!

I'm not going to a pool I'm going to south France for water sports and has a deep river and I can't stay afloat plz help.

My dog ​​taught me how to survive in the water. Thanks you , Yetti.

this is indeed helpful. thank you. now I have to do it in actual.

I havent tried it yet but this looks by far the most convincing video on how to tread water

Thanks for providing such information....thanks once again..

thank you this helped me a lottt

I like the word survive, makes it so dramatic while not being too far from the truth.

I had the worse fear of deep water more than anyone, and I taught myself how to swim. You can do it. Swimming in a pool, even in the deepest part, is surprising easy. It's the stroke techniques that are hard to master, and even when you don't master those, you will still move in the water and stay afloat. If you retain any fear and keep panicking, you will drown. Don't panic!!! That can't be stated enough. However, the movement he's doing at 3:06 touching his feet to the bottom is really hard to do because the water will keep bouncing you to the top. It is hard to top the bottom. The best thing is to take a swimming class at your local community college. That's a great start. Hold on to the ledge first and you will be swimming in no time. Just float and start kicking and you have it. Now ocean swimming is a different beast, and you shouldn't swim in it unless you have years worth of pool experience first. Even great swimmers drown in the ocean.

Thank you for your video!

Thanks this really helped alot i can breath now!

This is good man altho I already learned like today😂😂

very nice..iam a learner ,fear of swimming ,very helpful clear video and explaining in text..post more thanx

thankyou so much for this. it helps a lot. im sure all of us agree. 👍👍👍👍👍

thank you for the video! I am scared of the deep end since I cannot tread water yet.

so inspired for me. thanks for good tutorial

Thanks so much! I can't swim and I went to my pool and swam for a bit. My swim trip is better than last time (almost drowned)

Good Lesson. I will try it out....

thx this helps me a lot now very time I go to my aunts pool I can go in the middle and not be scared of going to the middle part

I'm going to try in the gym pool today & come back to review if it helped. I'm sure it'll help a lot, thank you~

Im glad i found this bc personally i know how to swim but i dont know how to float and i almost drowned yesterday..only reason i didnt die was bc i did the jump technique. The water was super deep and i thought i cud make it back to land but i cudnt see anywhere so luckly i knew about the jump but now i know how to float which is good

i always wanted to know how to tread in water! thanks!

nice video thx man :)

So guys, yesterday was my first time I went for swimming. And the only thing my coach first taught me to learn this. And I did this a few times and my highest was 30 seconds in underwater without breath.

I'm gonna try it next week!

I was not knowing how to swim before i was barely going to deep i was only in shaklow and i didnt even know how to float or swim normally so I practiced a lot and now i can go deep underwater and a pro swimmer so remember guys the key is yo practice...😁👍🏻

Tysm now I can go to the deep water with my friends

thank you for your tip

Thanks for the tips I'd like to be a marine one day, but my swimming is half-assed.

Thank you.

This video is really useful

That is also me thanks for the video

What was the float you were doing first my instructor cant do it well so i didnt learn it

You make it look so easy lol

How do you deal with the additional pressure in deep water? Quite painful, will I get used to this?

When I first entered a deep pool I almost shat my pants...I was like 5 back then and it was scary, but somehow I knew how not to sink like a rock and I managed to stay on top of the water...I still hate deep water, but I love it at the same time, I mean when you cannot touch the floor of the pool without sinking is so cool. Our gym has a 150cm deep pool only and since I'm 185cm it's horrible for me, the closest pool where I can't touch the floor without going underwater is in the next town, 15km from here...

good thank you ....but I am practice in the harbor. ....so it is too deep for me to reach the bottom. ...tell what to do

thanks bro

nice tip bro...

I've watched this video, back some months ago. And I decided to watch it again.. because I fear of ever drowning again... I was in Rockford, Illinois. last year July, 2014 for the weekend of the 4th of july I went to magic waters. And there were 3 slides. So I went on the left side. And as I was about to Exit u had to fall in the pool. And I kept telling myself "I'm not ready... I'm not ready..." and I fell in... and I didn't touch the ground, so My eyes were closed. I never had a swimming lessons in my life so... I always told ppl I knew how to swim.. but I was unsure of myself after this had happened. I literally thought I was gonna lose my life, I was so scared afterwards. I Saw 2 lifeguards as I was jumping and grasping for air... and they were just standing there like they didn't see me. After, I finally found the wall to the ladder and .. then the 2 lifeguards had the nerve to tell me my Bikini was "coming a loose". I wanted to curse them out so bad.. I had to sit on the bench from gracefully saving my own life, and I was Literally choking and coughing on clorine. Worst summer at waterpark ever..

I'm on vacation and I will learn this when the pool opens.

Well Tnx For This I Can Practice Using This Moves..Tnx ur a life saver.

Excellent

my synchro coach would whip me if she saw me treading water like that

what i like in this vid is the jumping practice part

that's very useful

Very good practice egg beater staying close by the edge

thanks !!

I have always wanted to do this.

Thx man

Very nice.

the problem is I am training in the deep sea and my trainer is keeping me away from the survival donat. ....what should I do

I really want to learn how to swim.......... and after watching, this video makes me want to go to a deep pool😂😂and see if i can do it....... lol😂😂😂😂

Thanks alot

thankyou so much

Thank you

My uncle used to teach me how to swim by throwing my toys in a pools deep end when I was like 3. Used to be so scared of anything deep but know I feel more safe in water than on land

this helps a lot! but for me when I'm drowning panicked takes over rather than thinking of an idea. ;-;

great!

amazing thank you

Thanks

I remember when my Cousins and me were swimming in a pool, I didn't kno how to swim tht time lol, but I saw my older cousin jump in the 5 feet water thing and started to go swim, but my dumb 7 years old self jump in thinking I could swim to, stand at the bottom of the water, lol lucky my cousin save me tho.

Thank you so much this really helped me all though this video is 9 years ago thanks swin2fast.

Last time I went into 7ft and sank and I didn't know how to swim so I walked underwater back to 5 ft

Thank you

thanks!!!

Swim2fast: swimming calmly Me: *INTENSE SPLASHING AND SCREAMS INTENSIFIES*

i learnt swimming by drowning myself in deep water then magically i know how to swim.

we did this in the army for something called drown proofing. only difference was we had on our full gear ie. helmet, weapons, lbe, boots, and bdu`s. shot got real. the techniques here work. and should not be practiced alone due to muscle fatigue. and swallowing water