Introduction to Learning Breaststroke in SwimmingThe 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 the […]
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Water Safety Reminders for Parents
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 death in children […]
The Laurie Lawrence Method of Learning the Butterfly
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 illness, Lawrence had […]
December is 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 according to a survey of […]
How to Teach Water Safety for Over 4’s
When it comes to water safety for over 4’s, there are a lot of things you need to think about and consider. Of course you want your children to have fun in the pool without any worries, but you also need them to know how they can stay safe when […]