(DNAINFO)  Shaye Weaver — Shui Chu, 22, panicked and grabbed onto the nearest classmate when he realized his feet couldn’t touch the pool’s floor. It was his first swim class at Asphalt Green in June after not setting foot in the water since he was in kindergarten.

“Initially there was a little fear,” he said this week after his eighth swim practice. “I don’t have any swimming experience and I never took any classes when I was young.”

Chu, a Bensonhurst native, signed up for Asphalt Green’s adult immersion swim classes after he realized swimming was a good life skill to have.

Facing his fears, Chu can now tread water and freestyle swim across the pool.

Source: Adults Face Fears and Learn to Swim at Asphalt Green – Upper East Side – DNAinfo.com New York