People I teach: Children and Adults
- new and newer swimmers
- fearful swimmers /persons with disabilities who can be in a class setting of 3
- older children who never learned to swim well and now feel out of place in group classes
- swimmers in need of stroke refinement
- adults who would like to lap swim as exercise but don’t know where to start
Learning to swim can be a challenge for many people. I enjoy the reward of helping people move through any obstacles on their way to becoming successful swimmers!
How my Program works:
New students start swimming with me at Healing Waters Pool, located right in Winslow. Better known simply as the "Yurt Pool," it's a private, year-round, salt water-purified pool that is quiet and wonderfully warm!
Adults and children learn to be comfortable and feel confident in the water in this safe environment.
My goals for you or your swimmer at the yurt pool:
- To become a happy and safe swimmer in and around water.
- To learn to exhale/inhale efficiently and to submerge happily, consistently.
- To swim with relaxed confidence.
- To be able to swim back and forth (42 ft) continually, breathing consistently, and flipping onto back when tired.
Children learn to depend on their bodies, not the bottom of the pool to support them.
Please note, if I feel that my program and your child is not the perfect match or vice versa, I reserve the right to end the lessons and will refund you for remaining classes.
How I Teach
My program is based on repetition and layers, an approach which I believe maximizes a child’s ability to learn and retain new skills. Just like learning math skills in school, I start with the simple basics, and once those skills have been mastered, I add progressively more challenging but related skills. Each level is intricately related to the level before it and the level after. I use the power of repetition in a fun learning environment.
I understand that for a child to attain a more solid mastery of new skills, their exposure in the learning environment is best served as smaller, more manageable pieces of information over a prolonged period of time. Participation in a more intensive program may achieve more rapid results in a child initially, but that a child’s ability to retain these skills over the long term is significantly decreased. For example, when a child takes a break after completing a short intensive summer program, it is understood that they will lose approximately half of what they learned by the following summer.
Taking once a week lessons, year round maximizes the child’s ability to retain the skills they have learned and best prepares them to learn progressively more advanced skills. Over the long term, students who take lessons in such a program will enjoy a steadier and more solid development in their swimming skills and are likely to become happier, more confident swimmers with less burnout.
