Who will forget the passion Who will ever forget that passionate explosion of emotion from Laurie Lawrence. Laurie’s young charge Duncan Armstrong arrived at Seoul for the 1988 Olympics ranked 46th in the world, had just beaten three world record holders to take gold in the 400 metres freestyle final. “What do you think we […]
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Child Safe Training for Swim Schools
World Wide Swim School Partner with Child Safeguard World Wide Swim School and Child Safeguard have partnered to provide the Aquatics Industry Child Safe Training. Child Safeguard is an award-winning firm that helps organisations prevent harm to children and keep them safer. Child Safeguard provides legal, training, and audit advice to organisations to build a […]
April Pools Day
Laurie and the team at World Wide Swim School strongly believe that water safety is a crucial part of all learn to swim programs, and that everyone should be equipped with CPR skills. The incredible team at Poolwerx think so too, and have teamed up with Red Cross Australia to create April Pools Day, providing […]
Tumble Turns: A Basic Guide for Swim Trainers
Through the provision of interactive training modules, World Wide Swim School is improving the quality of swimming training and teaching around the world. If you’d like to receive training from Laurie Lawrence as well as many other benefits, join World Wide Swim School today! Click below to find out more: Tumble turns are an important […]
Swim Lesson Ideas & Plans
Through the provision of interactive training modules, World Wide Swim School is improving the quality of swimming training and teaching around the world. If you’d like to receive training from Laurie Lawrence as well as many other benefits, join World Wide Swim School today! Click below to find out more: Lesson planning is of utmost […]
How to Teach Breaststroke to Kids
Through the provision of interactive training modules, World Wide Swim School is improving the quality of swimming training and teaching around the world. If you’d like to receive training from Laurie Lawrence as well as many other benefits, join World Wide Swim School today! Click below to find out more: The Laurie Lawrence method of […]
Laurie’s Recipe For Success
Laurie Lawrence is a well renowned and respected person in the aquatics industry. Laurie has had much success in all areas of teaching swimming. He has provided swimming lessons from babies all the way up to adults. In fact Laurie has had the privilege of teaching frightened beginners to swim who have gone on to […]
5 Easy 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. […]
Swim Clinics for Fast Tracking and Learning Skills
Organising swim clinics at your centre can be a great way to enhance swimmer’s skills and knowledge on specific strokes in a concentrated period of time. Swim clinics can be run for a variety of sessions and options – from frightened beginners to specific strokes. This article will concentrate on running a breaststroke clinic for […]
Laurie talks with Brooke Hanson
Laurie sits down to talk with Brooke Hanson OAM, Olympian and AUSTSWIM Ambassador. Brooke talks about her journey in swimming, missing the 1996 and 2000 Olympic games through to her success in the following Olympics and what were the important lessons she learnt through her mixture of disappointments and success! What was it that drove Brooke to […]