If you can’t get your ideal time when you first make contact with your local Shapland Swim School then this article should help you understand why. It is our guarantee to our clients that the maximum number of pupils in your child’s class will be three and the maximum number of classes in the pool …
Winter is a great time to enroll you child in swimming lessons. The Australian Government define swimming lessons as Personal Aquatic Survival Skills and is a very apt description of what we are trying to develop in our pupils across the whole Shapland group. The swimming season has always be cyclical ever since I can …
Honed by over seven decades of experience the Shapland original Swim in Five program enables our franchisees to assess your child’s ability over the phone. The same laws of physics apply today as they did in 1947 and will continue to apply to how your child’s body behaves in the water and the questions reflect …
In this modern age of parenting the emphasis on “Choices” for our children is now part of our parenting skills. Of course the principal of allowing our children to make choices also teaches them that for every choice we make there is also a “Consequence”. There are times when children can make bad choices e.g. …
If you child is being taught to blow bubbles in the water as part of their Personal Aquatic Survival Skills then I need you to consider the following. Unless we have a very high percentage of body fat most humans will sink, if they are in a body of water, unless they have air in …
After your child is confident the water will support their body weight (they can float), they then need to know how to start moving through the water. The forces that make your child’s body move through the water are delivered mainly by the hands and feet, and strangely enough the principles that apply to an …
This is a question I have been asked a lot over the last forty-three years. The answer to the question lies in an understanding of what makes us move through the water when we swim. To understand the mechanics of moving through the water let me draw your attention to what happens when you walk. …
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The first two steps in the Learn to Swim process involves your child being able to hold their breath, put their head under the water and open their eyes under the water. The biggest challenge for the swimming teacher is to make this fun. Children who have a shower and are used to water going …
There are five basic steps in teaching someone how to swim and it is important that none of these steps are skipped. The first of the major hurdles for a pupil, in the Learn to Swim process, is to trust the water to hold them up. A common term for this stage in the Learn …
NOTE: This article is a white paper extract that forms part of our in-house training program. Basic Breathing As a swimming teacher I found that I spent the majority of my time trying to teach pupils how to get a breath. This was especially true towards the end of the swimming season. Teaching someone to …