hydrants, you know. and then sometimes they would sneak into the pools late at night and that s how all kids started drowning. whenever i hear people can t swim, it makes me sad. it also infuriates me because i know somewhere along the way that they didn t have someone like coach fute who took them under their wing to teach them how to swim. and i immediately want to get in the pool with them and teach them. probably around 13 years old i became a lifeguard. i helped my sisters who are older than me to swim. i helped them become better swimmers. i taught my nieces to swim in the backyard pool. get in. and both of my great nephews. all these things i do for my seniors and as well for the youth teams are things that were taught for me and i enjoy giving
for sure. the speedo. i didn t say the speedo. i want the speedo. what is the name of this show from the 80s. baywatch. yeah. i m told. running along the pool. why are you wearing a swim sure the? i d i didn t want to show all the sexiness. coach fute, he seems like a he s tough. he was saying to them, too much conversation, is that when you were in the pool? yes, he wasn t saying it to me. but you must be disciplined when you re learning how to swim and you re responsible for people s lives. people can drown like that. it is important for him to keep tabs on people, keep them in line and watch everyone. when you re teaching people to swim, the last part is getting in the pool with them. you want to be able to stand over them and to be able to watch to make sure that people are okay. you don t want to be in the pool, because you don t have a good view.
some are on walkers, some have canes. but what they enjoy most is once they get in the water, they feel free. i ve been the coach since 1995. a little better than 25 years. wow. my oldest swimmer now is 99 years old. mr. fute, he s the best coach in the world. he has a lot of patience. because anyone who deals with seniors you got to get out the way. you re taking too long. do you have a reputation? yes. i have a reputation of being too hard. but it is all in love. taking too long. it is too much conversation. some of my seniors sometimes say, well, coach, you know, we re 80 years old. i said, you are as old as you
black kids to learn how to swim. black kids drown twice as much as any other ethnic group. they got rid of the community pools because they didn t want the races mixing. they filled the pool either with concrete or with dirt where i grew up because they didn t want people mixing. that s one reason why a lot of black kids didn t learn how to swim in the 50s and 60s. right. because the only thing they were able to do was play in the fire hydrants. sometimes they would sneak into the pools late at night, and that s how our kids started drowning. whenever i hear that people can t swim, it makes me sad, and it also infuriates me because i know somewhere along the way that they didn t have someone like coach fute who took them under their wing to teach them how to swim. there you go! and i immediately want to get in the pool with them and teach them. probably around 13 years old i
0 black kids to learn how to swim. black kids drown twice as much as any other ethnic group. they got rid of the community pools because they didn t want the races mixing. they filled the pool either with concrete or with dirt where i grew up because they didn t want people mixing. that s one reason why a lot of black kids didn t learn how to swim in the 50s and 60s. right. because the only thing they were able to do was play in the fire hydrants. sometimes they would sneak into the pools late at night, and that s how our kids started drowning. whenever i hear that people can t swim, it makes me sad, and it also infuriates me because i know somewhere along the way that they didn t have someone like coach fute who took them under their wing to teach them how to swim. there you go! and i immediately want to get in the pool with them and teach them. probably around 13 years old i became a lifeguard. i helped my sisters, who are older than me, to swim. i helped them become be