Does your swim school have a policy on wearing cap and goggles within the swimming lesson? Consequently, swim caps and goggles can aid swimmers experience in their lesson. However, they can also be a hindrance within the lesson if used incorrectly. Overall, if you don’t currently have a policy on wearing cap […]
Teachers
World Wide Swim School holds a collection of helpful articles for techniques and tips on how to teach swimming, for swim teachers.
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 […]
Time Management – How Important Is It?
Do you start and finish your lessons on time every time? Is this a recurring problem in your swim centre? There are many centres around the world that have issues with their staff starting and finishing their lessons on time. Let’s discuss time management and what it means to those […]
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 […]
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 […]