Introduction to Learning Breaststroke in Swimming The breaststroke is one of the four professional swim strokes used in competitive swimming. It’s often viewed as the hardest stroke to learn because it requires the chest and torso of the swimmer not to rotate. Despite the breaststroke being hard to learn, it was […]
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What is Trauma-Informed Practice in Aquatics and Why is it Important?
In the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all more aware than ever before of the devastation caused by situations that threaten our sense of personal safety, freedom and survival, potentially leading to trauma. Here we share a little about the concept of trauma-informed practice and its application in aquatics […]
Water Safety Reminders for Parents
Introduction to Swimming Safety Ensuring children’s health and safety is the responsibility of parents and teachers when teaching children to swim. For example, exposing children to bathtubs, swimming pools, spas, creeks, rivers, dams, fish ponds or any open water poses many dangers. In addition, drowning is the greatest cause of accidental […]
The Laurie Lawrence Method of Learning the Butterfly
Introduction to Laurie Lawrence Australian Olympic coach Laurie Lawrence, has a lifelong love for swimming. This passion came from an unfortunate occurrence: When he was a boy, he had bronchiectasis, which causes enlargement of parts of the lung’s airways, infection and a breakdown of the airways. As a result of this […]
December is Check your Pool Gate Month
Check your Pool Gate Month Recent research has revealed 57% of pool owners are not checking the safety of their pool gate and fence adequately enough. In addition, 42% of pool owners checked their gate only once a year, 11% every few years and 4% had never checked it. This is […]