The Swim Professor

Jim Reiser, M.S.

Swim Instructor Liability Insurance

Liability Insurance Available for Individual Swim Teachers at a Savings ! Here’s another reason to join WABC (World Aquatic Babies & Children Network)!   If you operate as an individual swim instructor in the United States, Canada or the U.K., you probably have been stepping up and paying at the high minimum insurance rate as if [...]

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March 25, 2011 - 3:05 PM Comments (5)

Adult Swim Lessons

When teaching swim lessons to adults, especially those who are beginner swimmers or learning a new skill, there are two aspects that REALLY JUMP OUT that make them different from teaching children to swim. First, adults tend to have, we’ll call it, “low swimming-self-esteem.”  They are embarrassed and they are far from confident that they [...]

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March 15, 2011 - 1:34 PM No Comments

Swim Lessons Themes

One great new theme that my young swim lesson students  have really enjoyed is an “Invisible Buddy Day.”  While adults may find it a little bizarre, young children love hanging out with “invisible buddies!”  I can’t tell you how much fun this can make a strokes class for a four or five year old.  In [...]

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March 6, 2011 - 7:41 AM No Comments

Swim Instructor Online Training

Swim Lessons University training videos, testing, and swim instructor certifications are now available online! Have you ever had trouble getting your entire staff of swim teachers together for training?  In other words, you would have 2 or 3 instructors not show up, resulting in YOU having to teach the entire training session over just for [...]

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