Day 7.194: Taking a bath - on TV

E5N1 is taking swimming lessons at the moment. Today, after work - at his request - I went to see how he's doing. Although earlier in the summer he did a course of lessons in an outdoor pool, his current lessons are taking place in above-ground indoor bathtubs. Happily, since you can't really see into them, they have added CCTV to complete the weirdness.

That's him on the screen stretched out in the orange shorts.

To be fair, the pools are the kind with a strong pump that you can swim against and the CCTV can also be used to play-back your stroke in slow motion for coaching purposes. Apparently it's how Michael Phelps learned. However, for now, they do not have the current turned on and E5N1 and his three compatriots are doing lengths of the tiny pool while learning some real swimming stroke techniques. It's probably exactly what he needs, but how well it will transfer to actually staying afloat in a larger body of water remains to be seen.