CrossFit Kids - "How Does It Feel to Have Succeeded?" with Dr. Harvey Barnett

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CrossFit Journal (journal.crossfi...).
Eighteen-year-old Harvey Barnett was a head lifeguard and a professional surfer preparing to head off to a Division 1 school for swimming.
But what he saw one day after coming home from work forever changed his life.
"When I got to my parents' home, a bomb had gone off," Dr. Barnett recalls. "People were just walking around in the street aimlessly."
Barnett's infant neighbor had rolled down into a drainage ditch and drowned in about 3 inches of muck and water.
"As an 18-year-old, not seeing any grey in the world, I saw only black and white," Barnett says. "And I knew that I never wanted to see such a horrible tragedy again."
At that moment, the teenager made a plea to a higher authority.
"I looked up into the clouds and I said, 'God, whatever it is that I have to do to never see that again, I will do it. Just tell me what it is,'" Barnett recounts.
And so he started Infant Swimming Resource, today a 46-year-old program with which CrossFit Kids recently teamed. ISR's goal is to prevent pediatric drowning through instruction to children as young as 6 months.
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@SCRAPTURES 12 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your heart, and thank you for saving all of those lives!

@HoCKeYFre4k 12 жыл бұрын

absolutely inspiring. best story i have ever heard and probably ever will

@chelseahogg5481 2 жыл бұрын

Bless you 💯you are so inspiring ❤

@emilostlund86 12 жыл бұрын

WOW! So Hard not to Cry. Amazing story!

@mykesorange 12 жыл бұрын

How touching. Thank you for sharing this with us.

@TheFreebieLOVE 12 жыл бұрын

What a great story!!!!

@Cbella82 5 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful story 😍

@Zumba819 11 жыл бұрын

Phenomenal!! And we are so so grateful for you and ALL that you have done to succeed! ---In gratitude, A Loving ISR Mom

@flexjc 12 жыл бұрын

amazing story!

@Br0nto5aurus 2 жыл бұрын

There's 2 kinds of isr videos on youtube: 1) The videos that show footage of the lesson(s) and the parent's reason for putting their kid through the course is either common sense or they were convinced by someone else's tragedy. The parents didn't personally know or have a child that drowned. Those videos get negative comments implying lasting psychological damage from the lessons (unfounded, btw). 2) the other type of video is one that shows lesson footage, AND a personal account of how drowning has affected a person's life. The videos of moms who have lost children to drowning, then put their other children through isr, and see that the skills isr teaches could've prevented their children's deaths, and the videos of Dr. Harvey recounting how his whole neighborhood was devastated by an infant drowning. These videos get no such comments, even though the swim lessons are still the same, and both types of videos show lesson footage. Some people think kids shouldn't have to do things they don't want to do, like go to the doctor, sit in a car seat, or learn to swim, until they're confronted with the reality that it's literally a matter of life and death.