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World Wide Swim School holds a collection of helpful articles for techniques and tips on how to teach swimming, for swim teachers.

swimming demonstrating butterfly arms face in water

Teaching Young Children Butterfly – Teaching Tips

Butterfly is a difficult skill. Often swimmers have learned the other 3 competitive strokes – freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke before they attempt to learn butterfly. In this article we will take you through the the important tips when teaching young children butterfly. Tips for Teaching Children Butterfly Remember there are many other areas of swimming […]

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Maximum Practice Time in Swimming Lessons

Maximum practice time in the swimming lesson is essential for faster acquisition of swimming skills. Great swimming teachers always look for ways to ensure that maximum practice time is achievable during swimming lessons. As a swimming teacher how can you best achieve maximum practice time in your classes? Tip #1 Group children by ability To […]

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When Should you Introduce Swimming Goggles

Once children have been through the water familiarisation process, are happy playing and swimming underwater, and spend a lot of time doing so, you can introduce goggles. Goggles are very useful to help protect the children’s eyes against prolonged chlorine exposure and ph imbalances. You will notice that some children will have more sensitive eyes […]

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Swimming Floats and Independent Skill Building

Swimming must be enjoyable In this video, Evie, who is 7 months of age, will show you how much she is enjoying her swimming lessons. She is conditioned to hold her breath on our verbal trigger ‘Evie, ready go’. Because she masters breath control, she can submerge safely underwater for a few seconds. Babies must […]

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Independent Swimming at 2 years old

Take a look at this wonderful video of 2 year old Jethro swimming. His mother Renee was one of our swimming teachers at Laurie Lawrence Swim School Helensvale. Can you believe that Jethro is now nine years old. What I love about this video is how relaxed Renee is. You’ll notice that Renee never picks […]

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