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Lol, the first thing I was taught was to float over your floaty to distract them (if you have one) and approach them from behind, grabbing them over the shoulder and across their neck to their other arm pit
Then you pull them onto their back, so if they pull or cling to your arm no big deal, they have no leverage. And if they're still flailing, you can pin their arms or even choke them out. You just have to be careful going in to avoid a head butt, but once you've subdued them you can focus on swimming them out, if they've calmed down they can even help by kicking
I'm really curious about the timeline of this progression, from "you might have to punch them" to "here's an efficient way to fight them" to "let's just take a few more seconds to subdue them gently every time"