By Sanuj Srivastava on SwimSwam
Hello everyone, My name is Sanuj Srivastava, Today, most people know me as Guruji through my Swimming By Sanuj YouTube channel, and my YouTube channel has grown to become the world’s most-subscribed swimming channel. But this story isn’t about where I am today, it’s about where I started. There was a time when I was terrified of water, quit swimming after my very first class, and never imagined that one day swimming would completely change my life. This is the story of my journey, from fear and failure to my first competition, and everything that happened along the way.
My swimming journey began in the summer of 2009, when I saw a swimming pool for the very first time at a government sports stadium near my home. Ironically, that same year was also when my journey almost came to an end.
In 2009, I saw a swimming pool for the very first time in my life. That was the day I decided I wanted to learn how to swim. Watching people glide effortlessly through the water made it look so easy. But the moment I stepped into the pool, I realized swimming was nothing like it looked from the outside.
During my very first lesson, I experienced the terrifying feeling of drowning. For a few moments, I truly believed I wasn’t going to make it. Thankfully, the lifeguard pulled me out before anything serious happened. But that one experience planted such a deep fear inside me that I decided to quit swimming after just a single class.
About a year later, in 2010, I decided to give myself another chance. This time, I tied a large inflatable tube around my body before getting into the water. I was still scared, but with the tube on, I knew I wouldn’t sink. Slowly, I started moving my hands and legs and managed to move forward.
My father always encouraged me to push my limits. One day, he told me, “You have the tube on, so go to the 6-foot-deep section and start swimming laps.” I was nervous, but I trusted him. Within a few days, I was swimming 30 to 40 laps with the tube.
During those practice sessions, I slowly began to understand how to pull the water, how to kick properly, and how to move my body forward. Swimming was finally starting to make sense. But there was still one problem, I was completely dependent on the tube.
Then one day, my coach gathered all the students who were using tubes and said, “Today, everyone is going to jump into the deep water… without the tube.”
The moment I heard those words, my heart started racing. I felt like this would either be the day I conquered my biggest fear… or the day I gave up swimming forever.
One by one, the students jumped into the deep end. Out of everyone before me, only one boy somehow managed to reach the shallow end on his own. The rest had to be helped out of the water.
Then it was my turn.
Instead of jumping straight into the deep water, I took a short run-up, hoping it would reduce the distance I had to swim. But it didn’t help at all.
The moment I landed in the deep end, all I could see was endless water beneath me. I went into full panic mode. Every time my head came above the surface, the only thing I could see was my coach standing there with a float in his hand. I kept desperately trying to reach it, but no matter how hard I kicked and pulled, it always felt just out of reach.
Slowly, I started swallowing water, and my panic became even worse.
My coach was standing right beside me with the float. He could have handed it to me at any moment, but he wanted me to keep trying so I would put in the effort to save myself instead of giving up.
I became so terrified that I started crying. Between my cries, I kept screaming, “Please save me! I’m going to die!”
Somehow, while crying, kicking, and struggling with everything I had, I finally reached the edge of the pool.
That 25-meter swim wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t fast. It wasn’t technically correct.
But it was the very first 25 meters I had ever swum completely on my own.
I had no idea then that this terrifying moment would become the foundation of everything that followed.
And what happened after that completely changed my swimming journey forever.
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