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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I agree swimming is a life skill. I was swimming for years already by that age. He has taken multiple swimming lessons and is taking them again now but JUST.CAN'T.SWIM. He sinks like a rock. His body is extraordinarily dense or something and he is not particularly athletic or coordinated. He's also afraid to relax enough to float.  I'm really concerned for his safety.[/quote]

This might be a controversial suggestion, but I'll throw it out there:

My brother was the same age -- 11 -- and still unable to swim. He was both super skinny (=low body fat, = less buoyancy) and unable to relax. Lots and lots of lessons at the neighborhood pool failed to accomplish anything.

Finally, my mom hired a kind and (this is relevant) cute 16-year-old girl who lived nearby and was a strong swimmer. My dad talked with a colleague who had a small backyard pool and arranged for them to use it briefly several times a week during the day while he & his wife were at work. My mom would sit by the pool and read while the 16-year-old taught my brother to swim.

The combination of patient one-on-one attention from the teacher and his own interest in impressing an older, attractive girl did the trick; my brother learned to swim.[/quote]

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