Notice the ring on his finger as a child.

Damnit! My keyboard is now slippery.
Makes it hard to sign up for CPR classes.

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good message but it was all wrong. In children you start with a rescue breath and then chest compressions. The compressions shown here were too slow and no where near deep enough to generate circulation and it's not useful to give such a gentle image as it might stop people giving proper compressions in future.

In reality it's vigorous and its not unusual to get rib fractures as a result.
e.g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZVfVKA10lk

Actually, hands free cpr is now taught. Not rescue breath. You are right about the rest.

In the UK, rescue breaths are used for paediatric (1yrs-puberty). And drowning is a 'special circumstance' whereby Cardiac arrest is almost always secondary to hypoxia there rescue breaths increase survival over 'hands only' CPR,
It's in the resus manual...l https://lms.resus.org.uk/modules/m10-v2-cardiac-arrest/10346/resources/chapter_12.pdf

So not a good example in this video. However saying that any *decent* attempt at chest compression only is going to help someone who is not breathing so not to be discouraged.

I'm pretty sure that the message here is not "this is how you do it" but "Go and learn how to do it "

Don't you have to check to make sure the airway is clear first before doing the rescue breath? It's been a while since my lifeguard training days, but we were told to check to make sure there was nothing (half-swallowed seaweed, vomit, etc.) obstructing before we began.