How To Float In Water - How To Float On Your Back For Beginners

In this video I teach you how to float in water. This video is for beginners and teaches the skill on how to float on your back in water. If there are any water skills you would like me to make videos about, please let me know in the comment field.

[wheelerzdavid]

I can maintain back floating for days, it takes little to no energy. It's the first thing you should learn in the pool as it is the only thing that can save you for a long period of time when out in the deep.

[crisaldi]

"If you don't have a friend"😂😂

[officialjrue]

I overcomed my fear from water because of goggles... Makes the water look so beautiful

[lil_siamese]

I’m here bc I barely joined swim lessons I’m almost 17 and still can’t do this
Edit:I got it guys ... practice makes perfect I’m actually learning. I passed my test and Movin to the next level... keep ya updated

Update: I’m on swim team now it’s hard but I’ll get better. The last update was from a year ago but I recently became a lifeguard for my city but I can’t work because of the dang virus. Stay safe people I know you miss swimming it will get better.

[KratosMayhem]

I finally learned how to float on my back today.
Unfortunately I have no friends and pool toys such as flotation devices are not allowed at my pool.
It took a whole lot of getting water up my nose so I want to share my experience for those who might be in a similar situation.
Stand in the water (I learned this in the middle of the pool with the water up to my shoulders but go where you feel comfortable)
Bend down and put your chin in the water with your mouth and nose above the surface.
Most important thing is to submerge both ears and look up at the sky, for me it helps to tilt my chin backwards as well. I have better buoyancy with my head at that angle than if my face was parallel with the sky.
Take a deep breath
Now lean back still while looking up and keeping both ears submerged lift up your legs and make yourself as pointy as possible. With your arms either put them at your sides or you can do a starfish thing but keep your palms facing up.
Push your chest up, arch your back and lift your hips this will help to keep your body as close to the surface as possible.
If your like me and your legs sink just kick them lightly you dont even have to do this continuously at least I dont but light kicking will keep your legs close to the surface
You should be floating hopefully just relax and take controlled breathes like Chris said.
Pretty much my entire head and face is underwater but my mouth, nose and eyes are above the surface which is what matters most.
I know this was long but if you read the whole thing I hope I helped in some way :)

[skriffyscruffy]

I accidentally did this the first time I was in a pool I thought I was aqua man

[neptunejvnkie]

I’ve been at the pool everyday for the past week practicing how to teach myself to swim. i’ve got the fundamentals down, now I’m watching videos to help me brush up on things I need to work on

[MuraliKrishnaDevarakonda]

Man, you fixed it for me with your first instruction:

"The first thing you need to think about is that you have air in your lungs, and it is this air that helps you to float in the water.
If you breathe out all the air in your lungs, you won't be able to float.
So when you breathe, you need to only breathe out a little bit of the air you have in your lungs.
So you use short breaths.
Do not empty your lungs - then you will sink like this."

This is the most profound - maybe basic, but still, a profoundly fundamental - concept that I haven't seen in any other swimming/floating instruction, and certainly not from anyone who ever tried to teach me or correct my floating, in the 44 years I have been struggling with it!

And I can relate to this because I have done a little bit of Scuba diving and one of the first things you learn there is that you go up by breathing in, and go down by breathing out - breathing is how you move up and down!

So, I could immediately relate to this, and I tried it in the pool today after watching this video this morning.
And it worked!
I was able to float for an extended period of time - I actually ended up "floating" to the other end of the pool, because of how I was kicking my legs!

Yes, now I have a new problem to solve - how to stay in the same place while floating!

[larrybraganza]

Your teaching technic conformed with my technic in learning my skill 54 years ago the only thing is that I do my practice on the river, I am from Philippines, am not a swimmer but I can do floating on water without stress, I can stay afloat on my back comfortable for a long time without movement, I can ride on big waves floating like a log. I have learned the skill of floating on water when I was 9 years old, and now I am 63 years old still doing it to show to my grand children.
Larry Braganza (Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines)

[iiabdxl]

"if you dont have a friend" totally got me cause I don't have a friend

[EndingSummerwithRalph]

I told my wife after a very long time (15 years) of trying to teach to swim that she must first really learn how to float. I tried before but this video really clicked with her and we will practice it as she has a trauma from learning to swim as a kid. Wish us luck! Thanks for the video, it gave us new information I failed to communicate!

[misstakelly]

Very helpful thanks a lot . I’m 31 just learning this lol

[tahdomm]

Thank you! I literally just floated for the first time and it felt amazing.

[tayyabarajgarah]

I learned how to float today. It’s very easy. This video makes it look hard.

You go on your back and push yourself back and lift your legs first. One leg first then other and once your doing that you inhale big and fall backwards slowly and you feel yourself floating and you slowly exhale and inhale again

[myopinionSD]

This is what I needed, thank you.

Perfect explanation.

[Dousch]

Been doing this about an hour every day during the summer, just relaxing and reflecting on things, traveling with the waves. Only downside is it blocks my ears for days after.

[pradeekshadoor]

I didn't know this was so complicated for people. It just naturally came to me without anyone teaching.

[annetepeter]

Thanks for the video. I learned to float today after watching this. Took me about 1 hour to get it. I skipped the putting my legs on the side of the pool (I couldn’t find my balance) and the having someone support my back since I was practicing alone. But I used the flat floating thing and at the need I could float on back for the first time in my life. I love water so perhaps that helped. Thank you once again.

[SmileyDAce]

I can't believe i can actually do this now.
Thank You, Sensei

[km]

I learned to tread water and float on my back back in High School... I "mastered" it in a sense, at least for our training portion at that stage of expertise... but man, watching this still gives me chills!