During early bath time interactions, parents should focus on becoming relaxed handling their baby. These early experiences are baby swimming lessons. The easiest way to handle your baby is sharing a bath together. This is the perfect bonding experience. Practise moving your baby by rolling and spinning. When you do this make sure you leave […]
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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 in poor swimming skills.When can […]
10 Skills To Perfect For Squad Swimming
Once swimmers have learned all four strokes and are competent and confident in their swimming abilities, it’s time for them to move into the squad program. For the purpose of this blog, it is assumed that swimmers are proficient in all four swimming strokes. Squad swimmers should be training multiple times per week, with the goal […]
How Can I Help My Swimmers Improve Their Skills?
World Wide Swim School often asks Centre Owners and Managers what they would like to see improved in their program. An overwhelming response is usually “lesson planning to optimise swimmers learning”. This means managers would like to see their staff plan and execute lessons with a clear focus. Especially where swimmers are given an opportunity […]
Expectations of 4 Year Old’s Swimming Lessons
What are the exceptions of 4 year old’s in swimming lessons? Let’s break this down and look at some of the characteristics and developmental milestones your child may be achieving during this 4 year old age group. Social and Emotional Development By now, most children are starting to show their own unique personality. Some are […]