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Swim Mirror

Excellent for seeing body line and hand travel.

Use in Swim Lessons:

Participants get immediate personalized feedback and can SEE what they're doing.

Instructions:

Utilize these progressions in your swim lessons! Buy the Premium Swimming Lesson plans here, and follow our guides and scripts to get your students to master complicated advanced swimming strokes.

Incremental progressions

How to use them in your swimming lessons

Front Glides

Stand close to the swimmer and let them hold you

Take one step back and make them jump to you, then support them

Take 2 steps back from next to swimmer, and then support when they get to you

Teach how to get to you without jumping UP in the air

Back glides

Head held on shoulder

Head held in hand

Head held by fingertips

Jumps from the side

Seated slide in the pool with help

Standing jump with help, not going underwater

Standing jump with help, face in, but not completely under

Standing jump with 1 hand held help, going underwater completely

Standing jump unassisted until after in the water

Standing jump no assistance, returning to wall.

How to use them in your swim team developmental group

Everything should be built on a foundation of streamline, or soldier position.

Start Early

Be Everywhere

Interview Early and Often

Start now in your interviewing process. Earlly interviews mean better canidates because you can be more picky and precise in who you hire. Don't delay and get stuck with mediocre canidates.

Screen for summer availability, forward planning (do they know what they are doing?), and work priorities.

Group interviews

Individual Interviews

Create a Culture for your program to spread word of mouth advertising. Your culture will define the people that show up at your program. Culture helps mentor new employees and keep existing ones engaged and on task.

What do you do to promote team culture?

What do you require for summer hiring? Contracts? Limited number of vacation days during summer months?

Bonuses?

How do you handle teaching swim lessons? Required by all?

Why the water is a great place to workout:

Reduces body weight by 80%

Resistance with every motion/movement

Creates a good aerobic environment without impact

Can be as easy or as difficult as you want it to be.

Build muscle and endurance just by being in water

Possibly expensive: Gym membership or daily fee/annual

No need to compete with lap swimmers

 Check out our swimming lesson ideas at:

www.swimminglessonsideas.com

Take advantage of water weights, belts, kickboards

Introductory workout:

 8 lengths walking

2 lengths high stepping

This week's podcast is about those pain points where a child might start crying on their first day of swimming lesosns. Sometimes a child might cry when starting lessons for a number of reason and we go in detail through the first few obvious and not so obvious ones.

Prior to the Lesson:

The Start of the Lesson:

Remember a few important items:

Children pick up on a the parent's feelings of apprehension. As a parent,

Remember, parents, keep your goodbyes brief. Lingering my make the whole process more painful for both the child and the parent.

If a parent needs to walk their child in, let them, but do not let them stay. The parent should walk them to the edge, then once the child is engaged or distracted they should back off to outside of a window, or farther away from the edge.

Take a look at these links for some more info:

http://swimminglessonsideas.com/2013/03/12/what-to-do-if-a-child-is-crying/

http://swimminglessonsideas.com/2013/06/07/dunking-a-child-thoughts/

If you're looking for details on what to do once you've gotten the child into the lesson, check out our Premium Lesson Plans!

http://swimminglessonsideas.com/buy-swim-lesson-plans

We got a response on our new user survey that gets sent out with all new members of our swimming ideas mailing list. Want 3 free downloads? Go to Swimminglessonsideas.com and download the 3 free lesson plans.

This user wanted to talk about how Platforms can be scary for new swimmers and may not always be the best choice for lessons. We go in depth into why they are excellent tools, and how you can make your platforms safe and effective in your lesson.

Build your own, or  Buy Pre-Made?

Benefits:

Cons:

Links to Buy your own:

Swim Teaching Platform 1.2m x 1.1m"> Product 1

SIP 006 is all about singing songs! Here are some great songs you can use in your swimming program to help teach going underwater, getting your face wet, and doing front and back floats.

We review what you can do during each song to turn it into a teaching moment. Learn what you can do during "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to calm a crying  child.  We'll also review how you can use the "A,B,C Song" in swimming lessons.

The following songs will be covered in detail:

A huge Thank you to Noelle Shearer,

http://noelleshearer.com/ for singing the songs and providing them online.

We have a list of songs and their lyrics you can sing or play in your program here:

Two Bonus songs!

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

Play this game while having your child sit on the side of the pool. When you either finish, or when you say "had a great fall" hold the child's hands and pull them into the water into your arms. You can play this game at the beginning of your swimming lesson too. Have everyone sit on the side and then sing the song for each participant. Pull them in or let them jump into your arms when you finish the song each time.

I'm a little teapot,
Short and stout
Here is my handle here is my spout
When I'm all steamed up
Hear me shout
Tip me over,
And pour me out!!!

Alternate version of the song:

I'm a little teapot,
Short and stout,
Here is my handle, here is my handle....
Wait a minute... I'M A SUGARBOWL!

During the lyrics of the song, you should pantomime the different characteristics of the "teapot"

For "spout" and "handle" put your arms to your side: spout to your hip, and other arm out to the side. When you play the Sugarbowl version, put both hands at your hips.

You can further amplify this song by pouring water on the swimmers in your group at the end of the song. When you get to, "pour me out" pour a bucket of water over your participant's heads. You can also give them each their own buckets or pails and sing the song as a group. When you get to the end, everyone pours their own water out!

Learn how and why we play these 4 games. Get the inside super powered up versions to maximize teaching effectiveness and create a fun and engaging class.

Your swimming program will benefit from using these games, find out how!

Buckethead: The Best Game Ever!

 http://swimminglessonsideas.com/game-buckethead/

Bake a Cake

 http://swimminglessonsideas.com/underwater-game-for-beginners/

 Throw and Fetch

 http://swimminglessonsideas.com/swim-lesson-toys-and-games-to-play/ Click on Diving Rings

Hula Hoop Diver

 http://swimminglessonsideas.com/game-hoola-hoops/

These games are used extensively in the Swimming Lessons Ideas lesson plans. You can get your own FREE Copy of the plans here: www.swimminglessonsideas.com by clicking on the large picture to the right.

If you're interested in the full lesson progam, check out our lesson plan packages starting at $1.99

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In episode 004, What should parents expect from swimming lesson, we review the 3 things that parents should demand from a swimming program. We'll look at what parents and swim directors should expect to see on day one.

I will answer the following questions:

You will also hear in this episode discussion on how the instructor will establish TRUST in their swimmers, and why that is important to learning.

Here are the graphs and images on Learning Retention and the Forgetting Curve:

You'll take from this episode a huge range of possibility for your swimming program. This technique works wonderfully for both swim lessons and for swim teams and their developmental programs. If you're working on new drills or turns, you can use this for teaching advanced swimmers!

Here is what we'll cover:

Lessons: