Many parents around the world have taken up the challenge to teach their own children to swim. This could be for a number of reasons. E.g. The cost of lessons, limited access to swim schools, unsuitable programs for the family’s needs and even the behavioural or learning limitations of their […]
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Water Familiarisation in Newborn Swimming Lessons
Parents can teach baby to swim from birth. Newborn babies have been immersed in the womb for nine months and therefore have no fear of the water. Newborn swimming lessons and water familiarisation start in the bathtub. Here we introduce baby to water in a loving, relaxed and controlled environment. […]
Introducing Adult Swimming Lessons
Swim Schools should have an adequate ‘Learn to Swim’ program, which includes all the elements to start swimming lessons. However, it may be worthwhile to look at ways to improve and extend these programs, and to offer an ‘Introducing Adult Swimming Lessons’ option. If you own a Swim School, it […]
Teaching An Infant Swimming – Teaching Tips
Teaching an infant swimming skills and many other age groups requires certain basic principles. These include; water familiarisation, breath control, submersion, free-floating, prolusion and breathing. It is important that these learn to swim principles are followed meticulously to maximise results. Trying to force or hurry the learn-to-swim process will result […]
The Benefits of a Deck Supervisor at Your Swim School
What’s all this talk about deck supervisors? Do we really need one? “That’s just going to cost us extra money that’s not in the budget.” This may be the typical response of a Swim School Manager when asked about employing a Pool Deck Supervisor. Here, we tell you about the […]