Learn to Swim in a Weekend

I learned to swim in 1995 at a local swimming center. It took me over 2 months before I could do all the strokes for 25 meters, and I went to the pool several times a week during that time. So don't expect to learn everything in a weekend. You need to have a teacher or a coach to learn swimming, but I found this book to be very helpful as a supplement, especially the very clear photographic sequences and drawings of the strokes. The book isn't waterproof, and you can't read it while swimming of course, but I would review one of the strokes at night and decide to concentrate on one or two things during my next session, based on the book. The original publisher of the book was Dorling Kinserling (sp?), and the heavily illustrated style of the book is similar to their other offerings. Later I bought a Total Immersion book, which was mostly text and not so helpful. Recently I bought Swimming Even Faster, which is an amazing book, but not for the faint hearted, since it is very detailed and technical.

I realise the book give very detail demonstrations and advice for the beginners to swim. Furthermore the pictures give better understanding and encourage the beginners to swim in a leisure or relax way.