Drowning Prevention Program vs Conventional Learn to Swim Classes – what’s the difference? One Word: SURVIVAL!

Drowning Prevention Lessons should not be ‘fun’ lessons that drag on week after week, for years, wasting parents money and potentially dangerous to your child. Conventional Learn to Swim Lessons teach limited independent prevention activities, because they are usually mixed with too many songs and games, without enough ‘work’ on Independent Drowning Prevention Skills.

Drowning Prevention needs to be established in young children 1st, then, when these skills are mastered, further Learn to Swim skills can be taught once a high degree of Prevention Skills is mastered. As well as teaching a healthy respect for aquatic environments, we need skills taught that will assist young children SURVIVE if they found themselves in a potentially deadly aquatic environment. There is a reason we do EVERY activity in these lessons. Always, as a parent, know HOW to do activities, WHY your child is doing it, and WHAT they are working towards.

As a parent, you need your baby or toddler to complete Drowning Prevention Lessons as a priority.

Our ‘Stroke Perfection’ Lessons vs ‘Mini’ Squads – what’s the difference?

• We keep instructors in the water with swimmers, right up to our junior squads.
• We are a ‘Hands On’ Stroke Correction Centre. We concentrate on the ‘whole’ stroke. Head and Body Position are key to effective swimming. Kicking is the ‘Motor’ of the stroke. ‘Sculling’ drills teaching children to move effortlessly through the water are taught from basic Learn to Swim to Squads.
• Instructors can correct stroke and stroke faults in children more effectively by being in the water an addressing faults immediately.
• We do ‘Short Distance’ lessons, until the stroke has been mastered in a particular stroke.
• We are striving for young swimmers to have the most effective swimming stroke, correcting faults that maybe hindering effective swimming.
• Our focus is on technique rather than long distances.
• Again, we don’t use unnecessary ‘aids’ in lessons. Until swimmers are strong enough and effective in their strokes and introduced in advanced levels.
• Swimmers are taught more effectively when a ‘progression’ is taught.
• We conduct ‘Swimming Assessments’ with children regularly (every 8 weeks) to monitor their swimming progression.