How do you fine tune kindness with your staff? Are they able to exercise empathy with the children that they teach? Children respond better to instruction when it comes with warmth and positivity, so it is important that teachers create an environment in which the child feels comfortable. Your teachers can help create a positive environment first by being aware that children often come to the pool with lingering emotions. They could be overly [...]

Free Flow Teaching Progression: "Pressing" into Efficient Swimming Regardless of your swimming goals or skill levels, there are some aspects of efficiency in swimming that are universal. Whether one is training for a high level of competition or just improving their fitness swim abilities, body posture plays an important role in energy conservation and ease of motion. In the Free Flow Teaching Progression, the mantra we repeat constantly is "Relax, Breathe, and Press". This [...]

A new skill set, be it swimming, dancing, fly fishing, whatever - requires a considerable amount of practice to become proficient. The more this practice can be strung together uninterrupted, the faster the learning. With swim lessons, the big inhibitor to learning is breathing. Students can only practice the skill as long as they can hold their breath, which is usually 5-10 seconds before everything comes to a halt. This leads to a lot [...]