Swim Lessons

Twilight Sparkle was making lunch for herself as it was almost time for her to go to her first lesson with Rainbow Dash, she had her swimwear packed up for the lesson, she was still a bit nervous even if she wanted to learn, she doubted Rainbow Dash would be professional about this but she promised Twilight that she would be.

Rainbow Dash waited for Twilight to arrive at the center and soon she saw Twilight walk up to her wringing her hands. Rainbow Dash walked up to her as Twilight looked around at the inside.

"I'm glad you showed up, why don't we both get changed and we can take the lessons from there, we will go at your pace, I will push you but I'll also make sure your comfortable with your own pace." Rainbow Dash encouraged, Twilight nodded hesitantly.

"Thanks Rainbow...I really appreciate that you are doing this. I've wanted to learn for a while, I know it might take time but I will learn." Twilight said. Twilight walked to the locker room with Rainbow Dash and they both changed into their swimsuits. Rainbow Dash finished getting changed while Twilight also finished but she sat there as she hesitated.

Twilight wondered how Rainbow Dash was going to go through with this, she decided to see how this was going to go as she sat up and walked to the pool, Rainbow Dash walked up to her and put a hand on her shoulder and she smiled.

"It's alright Twilight we can go slow, just get in the water and we can go from their ill be there every step of the way." Rainbow Dash encouraged her, Twilight smiled and she hesitantly got in with Rainbow Dash.

"So We will stay in the shallow end for now and when you improve then we can move to the deep end but for now we can just do simple kicks for now and move up from their so I want you to watch me for now." Rainbow Dash said, she grabbed onto the side of the pool and started to do the simple kick. Twilight watched on as Rainbow Dash kicked in place.

"See how my legs are lined up with my body as they kick and how I'm not splashing? Well that's what I want you to do, just hold onto the side and kick as much as you can without making a lot of splashing as it is a swimming technique. Just try it." Rainbow Dash encouraged. Twilight watched her kick under the kick, she hesitated but she finally grabbed onto the side and kicked.

She was splashing a lot, she hoped that Rainbow Dash wouldn't get mad but Rainbow Dash only smiled encouragingly as Twilight splashed as she kicked. She tried to lower her legs and kick under the water more without making any splashes and then soon she stopped the splashing and just kicked under water. Rainbow Dash nodded with approval.

"Great job Twilight, although your position is a little bit off you doing good, just keep doing it for a few more moments to get it right and soon she perfected it. She finally stopped and Rainbow Dash nodded with approval as she stepped to the side and spoke.

"Now we are going to learn your first stroke which can be the butterfly stroke which is done by doing this." Rainbow Dash said as she started to do the butterfly stroke while she went back and forth. She did for a while and explained that it was the most difficult stroke but she wanted Twilight to learn it.

"This is the most difficult stroke but we are going to learn it as I want you to succeed at this, I want to make progress, so go ahead and just do what I do. In fact I'll do it with you." Rainbow Dash said, they both started to do the butterfly stroke and Twilight knew that it was a pretty hard stroke but she tried it repeatedly as she wanted to make Rainbow Dash proud.

She kept messing up which made her upset, she stomped in frustration but she tried to do it again with her but without luck, she repeated it again but she also repeated her mistakes, she really wanted to master this. Rainbow Dash did it repeatedly with her in order to get it right.

Twilight finally was able to do the butterfly stroke back and forth with no problem, she was so happy that she had learned her first way to swim. Rainbow Dash praised her and they noticed that it took half and hour to learn it, Rainbow Dash was going to end the lesson but Twilight insisted they do more.

"I really want to learn as much as I can so we can move on to more swimming lessons tomorrow that you can come up with so teach me. I don't mind." Twilight said with a grin. Rainbow Dash grinned back.

"If you say so.... The next one I was going to save till later is the doggy paddle which was going to be the first stroke I was going to teach you but I just opted with the most difficult one first, this one you just have to paddle like a dog and this is how you do that." Rainbow Dash said as she paddled like a dog, Twilight giggled at her as it did look pretty funny, soon Rainbow Dash proceeded to teach Twilight.

"Now you try it, go ahead it's okay." Rainbow Dash encouraged, Twilight proceeded to get into position and then she paddled like a dog, she started to snicker as it just felt funny to her to do this. Twilight giggled.

Rainbow Dash chuckled as Twilight paddled around, she did look pretty cute. Twilight stopped and Rainbow Dash thought for a few minutes, she then got to another simple one for Twilight to do.

"Now we can try the side stroke and back crawl which are very simple you'll have it down in minutes so just get on your back, I'll hold you and you move your arms backwards to swim." Rainbow Dash explained, Rainbow Dash did it for her and came back to her.

Twilight hesitated but Rainbow Dash talked her through it and then she had Twilight get on her back and she slowly tried to teach Twilight the back crawl, Twilight had trouble at first but seemed to be able to do it with without hesitation and after a couple of minutes Rainbow Dash let her go and she did it on her own.

"We can learn the front crawl which is also very easy to do and I'll show you and example." Rainbow Dash said as she gave her a demonstration. She then held Twilight as she first started out but after a while Twilight told her to let go as she did it by herself. Twilight had learn all of the basic strokes in less than two hours. Twilight came back to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash was speechless

"Twilight I can't believe you are learning this fast, you technically have all of the strokes down. We should stop to day though and tomorrow we can learn to hold our breath under water and I can teach you how to do the dive and cannon ball." Rainbow Dash said, Twilight siezed up in fear but Rainbow Dash comforted her.

"Hey don't worry you can do it. I'll be with you the whole way. Now go and get dressed." Rainbow Dash said. Twilight got dried off and Rainbow Dash did so as well and they changed and went home.

"Thanks Rainbow Dash I'll see you tomorrow, I'm glad I have you as an instructor." Twilight exclaimed happily. Rainbow Dash said that she appreciated that she liked her as a teacher and they both went home.