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Kids’ diving: features of psychological preparation

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If you decided to attach your kid to the wonderful world of diving you should start with the psychological preparation. At first you should show your child your own underwater pictures and watch documentary about diving – all this is aimed at to generate kids’ interest. Most of the children are quickly enough involved to a new and unusual experience. At this moment you can start diving training.

Next step involves introduction to equipment and first dive. For such experience fits pool where divers train. You can come closer with your kid to consider the equipment and even ask permission to touch it. A professional diving center can take to learn kids from 8 years. Sure much depends on the child his emotional and psychological maturity.

Before diving with equipment it is better to offer your id usual swimming with mask and snorkeling. This will help to cope with psychological barrier of dipping face into water. Ability to use snorkeling will help the kid to control his breathing. One of the important component in diving are fins. Only after they are mastered, you can move on to the next stage of learning. The professional instructor can estimate whether the kid is ready. For children diving includes not only physical training but also the ability of young diver to listen and understand the instructions of the coach and not to be afraid and not to panic in new unusual conditions. All these demands are the key to safety on the water. An important aspect is personal interest of the kid and a lack of phobias. Experienced instructor can help to overcome the fear of the dive and uncertainty on the water. As a rule kids’ programs include a lot of game points that help the kid to relax and to join the underwater world painlessly.