What I learned on highschool swim

Make sure to check out my team in my description! Ingrid in particular is the one who works all those awesome anime references into the videos, and she loves seeing y'alls comments finding all the anime characters ;)

No one Todoroki writing in the corner of the class: I hate my dad.

ALL MY HOMIES HATE FLIP TURNS

I never joined a swim team. Never had the option. I would have been terrible! Despite that, I'm a very successful swim teacher and have been doing it for 10 years. I teach anywhere from 6-month-olds to adults. And let me tell you, teaching adults really is a practice in creative thinking. It's quite hard to find the right words, the right techniques, to help them feel good about themselves and their progress. Recently I had to step back, tell one of my swimmer to stop trying so hard and just have fun. Now we're working on silly swimming, not form. She's not planning on joining any team. She just wants to be safe and comfortable if she gets invited to a pool party. So that's what we're doing.

When I was in middle school I joined my school’s cross country team, and as someone who couldn’t finish a mile in 12 minutes, that was a daunting task. I struggled so much during my first year, and I was pretty bad through most of it, literally tripped over my own feet constantly, but I was determined to keep pushing myself and avoid walking as much as I possibly could. At the end of my season, my coach was super proud of me and told me I was the most improved that year. Trying really hard and improving is a good feeling 😊

"so how many references do you want" Illy: yes

Illy: "I'm not really into Anime" Also Illy: That's a better redemption arc than Endeavor's-

As a swimmer myself, unless you're injured, sick, or dying, you should NEVER miss practice. One day missed in swim means a week of recovery in my case

As a long time swimmer since 7 years old, this actually made me really happy and excited to start the new swim season! I remember all of my past struggles with diving, flip-turning, breathing, an streamline. To anyone that is interested in swimming, go ahead and try it out! I hope you love it as much as I do and never give up!

"Don't breathe underwater" Instructions misunderstood. I'm now 100% water.

This felt like an anime redemption arc and I'm all here for it 💪💪💪

I watch this video every time I have a swim meet, and it always makes me feel less anxious about it.:)

as a highschool newbie swimmer on the swim team who has been struggling with starts and flip turns youve motivated me a lot to keep on pushing and trying . thank you!!!

You know I'd like to think that you were on the swim team with class 1A

This literally sounds like the plot to an anime except there’d be like a super mean bully or something

This is really inspiring, since recently i started highschool and i only learnt how to swim in the holidays and that was just dog paddles. With extra swim lessons on Tuesdays and 2 lessons of swimming in PE a week in term 3 i really hope i improve ALOT i already did. Thanks so much i am definitely subscribing

this came at the right time in my life, tried out for track absolutely didn't meet my expectations and was so embarrassed i wanted to die, BUT after hearing this story it made me feel so much better i used to watch you when i was younger and still do from time to time but this made me love you even more tysm ☹.

How many anime references de you want? Ily: YES!!!!! AND NOT ONLY ANIME ONES

Imagine actually participating in extracurricular activities for school 😬 could never be me

As someone who's on their sophomore year and doing swim team, I love this sm <33