The product of most warnings about water is: "Well, I Ve fallen in the water, now I'm supposed to start drowning."
New program. "No need to drown." Sinkers, non-swimmers, cripples, children; cramped, exhausted, injured, no rescue
in sight. "No need to drown."
The book is sufficient for you to learn or teach the techniques appropriate for floaters, sinkers, and sundry special circumstances. Good medicine for anxious parents. Teach your kids and yourself ans stop worrying.
Panic makes you throw your head back, reach up, make gurgling noises, horrible faces and kick and wave your arms frantically. None of these moves will do youth e slightest good. Now is the time to learn the following, because this is what really makes drownproofing work:
Whether your nose and throat are full of water from lips to stomach, the stroke or the kick willalways get you to the surface...
You do it in thes ame manner as you had been doing it, if you blow out through your nose, with your lips clamped tightly together as you break the surface with another kick or stroke, whether air or water comes out, you will be some- what relieved and you will be ready for the inhale, will be better off, and if you continue the cycle, no matter how much water you shipped, things will get better much sooner than you think.
If this procedure is stuck to and mastered, 90% percent of those involuntary swallows of water will be forgotten three cycles (15 seconds) later. The other 10 percent may take 10 cycles to completely recover from, but if you force yourself to repeat the cycle properly, you are sure to be all right. What counts is that you get yourself out of trouble.
