Comment

Comment on Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?

evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m going to disagree with everyone here. Loads of people throughout history have learned to swim by literally being thrown in. It’s not a good way to learn, but people do it. Even babies can do it.

Given a little bit of reading first, you’d do just fine. Yeah, the motions might be a little off cause it’s hard to learn a complex movement from a book, but it would be good enough.

source

Sort:hotnew top

DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In the immortal words of Mike Tyson, "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."

No matter how much you study, landing in the water will change everything.

source
douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
They learned how to swim by being thrown in.

Which would by definition be a form of practice.

Which means they learned how to swim by practice.

Which means they did not learn how to swim simply through theory. They first had to practice and then apply the theory they learned, which is still learning by practice.

The spirit of ops question would be reading and learning about it and then being able to jump in the pool and swim without practicing, immediately. Because if you cannot and you first have to practice then by the very statement of this sentence you learned via practice.

source