Dear Swim Profesor: I hope you can help w/more advice. I”m still a beginner swimmer. My teacher told me I need to work on my kicking, and I’d like to get some fins. Saw some lightweight flippers at Todd & Moore, and then just regular swim fins (I guess). I think I need “short fins” [...]

How Can You Make Your Swim Instructors Smile? Dear Swim Professor: How would you encourage, insist, demand, or coax an excellent instructor into smiling and quit frowning?  I have tried everything.  He loves what he does… he just doesn’t and cannot display pleasant facial expressions, and has a natural “concerned” look most of the time.  [...]

Are you discouraged when you have swim lesson classes with openings? Are you discouraged when parents only enroll their children in one set of swim lessons a year? Are you discouraged that your learn to swim advertising isn’t working? Take advantage of the SOCIAL BOOM and use FACEBOOK to help increase your swim lessons enrollment.   [...]

The article posted on CNN.com and posted on the USSSA Owners group by Ria Mackay, What Teachers Really Want to Tell Parents is a fabulous article.  Every parent and teacher should read it… I agree, with first hand experience, that many parents take it way too far–exactly as this article points out.  Sadly, when parents [...]

Well our Swim Lessons University Swim Instructor Conference is Las Vegas in the books, but the New Orleans Swim Instructors Conference is just around the corner!  Of course if you missed these, we will hold two more conferences this spring, one in Orlando in February and one in NY in March. As in the years [...]

While many parents may think there’s not much to teaching a child to swim, you know that is far from the truth.  There’s a lot that goes into being a great swim instructor, and like most anything in life–you can learn from your mistakes.  So keep the faith.  You are always getting better. Here are [...]