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Why Treading Water Is An Essential Confidence Boosting Skill plus, Become a More Outstanding Swimming Teacher
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Can you tread water? How often does it feature in your lessons? Treading water is an important skill to learn for many reasons. Also, this week, fine-tune your teaching practice to be even more outstanding! Hi, Mark here. I hope you've had a great week. This week, we are talking treading water and I give you a free printable download that explains everything you need to know. But first... Calling all Swimming Teachers!Have you seen my definitive guide to teaching outstanding swimming lessons?My very popular book How To Be A Swimming Teacher is packed with tips and helpful guidance. Inside you will discover:
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Give Your Confidence A Boost - Learn How To Tread WaterTreading water is an important skill to learn. First off, it is an essential part of water safety and personal survival. On top of that, it boosts confidence, particularly when swimming in deep water. Anything that boosts confidence can only be good! Check out my printable download for the finer details about how to tread water and how to teach treading water by clicking here or download your printable by clicking the link below.
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I've been teaching swimming for over 30 years and I built Swim Teach so that I can share all my knowledge, wisdom and experience from the thousands of swimming lessons I have had the pleasure of teaching. Take a look back through my previous newsletters and see what you missed.
The Swim Teach Weekly 1–2–3 One teaching goal. Two ways to communicate it. Three phrases to try. Hi there, Mark here. Hope all is well with you. Welcome to this week’s Swim Better Weekly - one small change to make swimming easier. Do you feel out of breath after swimming just one length - even when you are trying to take it easy? This is very common when you are learning to swim. It doesn’t necessarily mean that you are unfit or incapable of swimming further. The problem may be the way you...
The Swim Teach Weekly 1–2–3 One teaching goal. Two ways to communicate it. Three phrases to try. Welcome to this week’s edition of The Swim Teach Weekly 1–2–3. 1 LEARNING GOAL Turn to the side to breathe without lifting the head. Front crawl breathing can quickly disrupt an otherwise reasonable stroke. Swimmers often know they need to turn their head, but when the breath feels rushed, they lift forwards instead — dropping the legs, losing balance and making the next breath even harder....
Swim Better Weekly - One small change to make swimming easier. Hi there, Mark here. Hope all is well with you. Welcome to this week’s Swim Better Weekly - one small change to make swimming easier. The problem The pool feels threatening before you’ve even begun practising. You may see other swimmers moving confidently through the water and feel as though you should be doing the same. That can make the first goal feel enormous: “I need to swim.” Why it happens Fear tends to grow when you treat...