Michael Phelps: Six Month Old Son, Boomer, Gets Nervous in His First Swimming Test Just as Phelps Did in His First..

It might sound a little hard to believe now, but once upon a time Michael Phelps was pretty darn nervous as a kid when it came to getting in the water. And now that his son Boomer is taking his first swim lessons, Phelps is finding that his son might share a similar, initial apprehension about being in the water.

“His biggest thing is going under water, but he’s getting better” Phelps said to a camera as he shared Boomer’s swimming lesson on Facebook Live.

Judging from the video Phelps shared on Facebook, it seems that baby Boomer is otherwise pretty chill with being in the water  so long as he’s being gently held by someone else. The swimming coach who helped Phelps learn as a kid how to swim, Cathy Bennett, was also in the pool to help 6-month-old Boomer adjust to the pool water. And the kid eventually got so cozy that Bennett joked he was falling asleep. “He really does go to a happy place, just like Daddy when he’s in the pool,” Phelps said, according to E! News. That is, Boomer is in a ‘happy place’ when his face isn’t touching the water , baby steps. “He puts his face in and he didn’t really like it too much, but now he’s grabbing on for dear life,” Phelps said in the video.

There’s plenty of hope, though, for 6-month-old Boomer to follow in his dad’s footsteps, to strokes,  and become a history making Olympian. This is, after all, only his 5th swimming lesson.