SARASOTA, Fla., Jan. 13, 2011 — The Internet radio show, "The Learn To Swim Show with M. Ellen Dash" at WorldTalkRadio.com will provide solutions for African Americans who refrain from taking swimming lessons and therefore from learning to swim due to the effects of swimming on their hair and hair-do. The show can be heard from 1-2 p.m. Eastern time January 13, 2011 and is downloadable after Thursday.
The program is a thirteen-week pilot whose purpose is to gather swimmers, non-swimmers, and swimming instructors in order to reach a common understanding about what it means to learn to swim. For the first hundred years of formalized swimming instruction since 1912, instructors have taught that learning to swim meant learning freestyle. Swimming students have assumed this definition, thinking that learning freestyle would make them comfortable and safe in deep water. Dash says, however, that freestyle is not related to safety in deep water. Instead, learning how the water works, that is, that it keeps people afloat, etc., and learning how to prevent panic are the foundation of safety in deep water.
In the next hundred years of formalized swimming instruction, show host "Melon" Dash of Miracle Swimming Institute in Sarasota, FL says, "The definition of learning to swim must include becoming reliable in deep water for ones safety. Let's not put the cart before the horse any longer: First, learn to be at ease and safe in deep water (learn to swim). Then learn strokes. People who have passed a swimming test by stroking 50 or 75 feet across the pool think they can swim — but many cannot. "
Seventy percent of American drownings are by adults. Almost half of American adults are afraid in deep water in pools, according to a 1998 Gallup Poll. Therefore, they don't know how to swim. Three times as many African Americans drown as Caucasians. The Learn To Swim Show espouses a new method of learning in which everyone can succeed. But first, everyone has to be willing to go to the pool and get their hair wet — thus a program addressing hair in the African American community for both men and women.
To listen to the show, go to http://www.WorldTalkRadio.com, then find Hosts, then D for host, Dash.
Media Contact:
M. Ellen Dash, President, Miracle Swimming Institute
Email
http://www.conquerfear.com
941-921-6420
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