Usually I ask my friends to go hangout at a pool, but they always laugh it off claiming they have no clue on how to swim. They believe swimming is another leisure activity that can be substituted with time at the bar. This is how many people here in Africa perceive swimming, an activity associated with the wealthy people. But then how about when swimming is called for in a do or die situation, when the boat your traveling in capsizes and swimming is the only thing standing between life and death. This is one of the many questions we should ask ourselves and prepare incase our lives are threatened.

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Survival skills are an important part of our lives just as the basic needs we use in life everyday. Anything can happen when our life is hanging on a rope and there is no immediate help near by. We can not take some skills for granted. One of these skills is swimming. I've not encountered a person that hates traveling on water. The breeze of water waves calms any person down and refreshens the mind. This makes us prone to falling in water incase the boat or any means we are using to travel on water misbehaves just as we recently noticed the capsizing on lake Victoria a few days back. More than 30 people drowned to death when the means they were using capsized. Only a few that could swim survived as they bought themselves enough time for the rescue team to come and save them.
Go for swimming lessons if you don't know how to swim and keep practising because you never know what can happen when in danger with water. This will either save you or buy you time from dying sooner than you would have if you could not swim.

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Combat is another of the many skills that we need to learn. We can not identify who the people around us are or their intentions for us. Millions of people die from attacks on their lives either from robbery or an organised crime. A phone call to the police might not be taken in time leaving you with one choice of facing your enemy. This encounter will require you to show your defensive skills to give you a chance of living till help comes. There are numerous combat schools around us that can help teach us on how to defend ourselves. Many youtube videos can also help us learn to defend ourselves.

Let's open ourselves to learning these skills and many others that can give us a chance of escape danger that may come our way.