I first learn to swim with my father at the mobile home park pool as a 7 year old. Then I took lessions in the summer time at the community pool in our area thru Red Cross. I went to a swim school to learn butterfly.
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Well, I'm not an elite swimmer by masters standards. Red Cross learning to swim has been available in most large metro areas for over 40 years. I don't know if you were unaware of it as a child or you came from a rural area where it wasn't available. But I learned to swim in the 1960's and they taught you strokes that are no longer use such as the Triegon and the elementary backstroke. I had to go to a private swim school in order to learn the Butterfly. Butterfly was separated from breaststroke back in the 1950's and not all learn to swim programs taught it in the 1960's.
Well, I'm not an elite swimmer by masters standards. Red Cross learning to swim has been available in most large metro areas for over 40 years. I don't know if you were unaware of it as a child or you came from a rural area where it wasn't available. But I learned to swim in the 1960's and they taught you strokes that are no longer use such as the Triegon and the elementary backstroke. I had to go to a private swim school in order to learn the Butterfly. Butterfly was separated from breaststroke back in the 1950's and not all learn to swim programs taught it in the 1960's.
