A team is only as good as its weakest link! Swim School owners and operators should put a huge emphasis on their in-house staff training. Remember the saying ‘a team is only as good as it’s weakest link’. Regular staff training will produce good quality, well-educated staff, and professional staff members. These staff will keep […]
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Bilateral Breathing – Teaching Tips for Breathing
When should swimmers learn bilateral breathing? It is a question or topic of debate that has been among swimming industry professionals for many years. We believe that as soon as a swimmer is ready to learn side breathing, they should learn to breathe to both sides. Learning to breathe to both sides does not necessarily […]
Patience & the Learn to Swim Process
Swimming lessons are a great investment. Not only are you providing your children with a skill for life, you are giving them an advantage in the areas of social, emotional, physical and intellectual development. A four-year study conducted by Griffith University has found what swimming industry leaders have suspected for decades. Children who attend swimming […]
Swimming Toys and Their Uses – Teaching Tips
Toys can be a very useful tool for a swimming lesson. Young swimmers love using toys in their lesson and they can be a huge help for swimming instructors and parents. Toys come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colours. Swimmers are limited only to their imagination for toys and their uses. Here are […]
Steps to Master Butterfly
Many people find butterfly one of the hardest strokes to master in their swimming. Butterfly can be an easy stroke to swim if instructors and swimmers take their time and use a building block approach to learning – that is don’t move onto harder skills and drills until previous ones have been learned and mastered. Below […]