Swimming and Life-saving

Austin completed and received a certificate for Bronze Star, last month. This course is a pre-requisite for the life-saving course, Bronze Medallion, which Austin is eager to take next month. He enjoyed the group os students who completed Bronze Star with him. They ranged in age from 13-15, with most of the group over 13. Austin is looking forward to learning with that group, again. He is very motivated to become a lifeguard at his earliest opportunity. He has to be at least 16 years old.

In that course, he learned basic CPR and practiced saving a drowning person, even while wearing clothes.

September 12-22, Austin has been taking I Can Swim 4 on M/T/W/Th for 30 minutes per day, 5:00-5:30. He is getting private lessons, because noone else signed up for the course.

Austin's instructor, Hessam, told me that Austin takes instruction very well and he was impressed by Austin's mature response to the question, "What is your favourite stroke?" Austin responded, "The breaststroke, but that's most likely because it's the one I'm best at. I should probably practice other strokes to get better at them, too."

Austin told me that Hessam is getting Austin to work on improving his endurance. Austin has been getting good daily exercise, hiking in the hills around our home, as we walk little brothers to their respective schools.