Have you ever tried a wetsuit for teaching? Have you ever thought about a wetsuit for your “learn-to-swim” students? While I started wearing a wetsuit back when I taught in “unheated  pools,” now even when I teach in heated, warm water pools (87 plus degrees)–I won’t teach in anything else! Why? I’m a better teacher [...]

Listen, 1x per week of swimming lessons is clearly 100% better than ZEROx per week, and 1x per week is a great way to maintain swimming skills over the winter and certainly make some improvement. However, IF you increase the frequency of swim lessons/practice from 1x per week to 2x per week you will CLEARLY [...]

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Teaching a baby or toddler to swim can be an invaluable experience. In my most recent article on About.com, I answer three frequently asked questions about swim lessons for infants and toddlers. 1.  Can a baby or toddler learn to swim? 2.  Can an infant or toddler learn freestyle or backstroke? 3.  Can you drown [...]

Jim Reiser’s article,  How to Choose a Swim Instructor, was selected as a “Rising Star” and featured on the WikiHow home page under “new articles.” By the way, Swim Lessons University’s feature of the week is “Bathtub Baby 101,” How to Make Bath Time Your Baby’s First Swimming Lesson, and it is discounted this week [...]

Dunking Infants and Babies is always a big topic of discussion when it comes to learn-to-swim and swimming lessons for infants and toddlers.    Should baby swimmers or toddler swimmers be dunked or not? View my recent article on About.com and the five rules I train swim instructors to follow when it comes to Infant-toddler swim [...]

Watch 7 minutes of sample video footage from Teaching Babies Better,  Jim Reiser’s brand new Swim Lessons DVD for Infant & Toddlers! In Teaching Babies Better, ” The Swim Professor” shares 22 Ways to Improve Infant & Toddler Swim Lessons, while also showing awesome underwater footage and sound teaching principals throughout the Baby Swimming presentation [...]

Did you know that over half of all drownings for babies occur in bath tubs?  According to Safe Kids world wide, that is a fact.   View my FREE YouTube video on Drowning Prevention & Water Safety for infants, toddlers, and young children. Because we KNOW that infants and toddlers are drowning  in the winter too [...]

How to Hold Your Baby in the Swimming Pool from wikiHow – The How to Manual That You Can Edit Have you ever wondered if you were holding your baby incorrectly in the swimming pool? Or if some holds are better than others? In this article, you will learn the holds that are the most [...]

About.com, a New York Times Company, recently signed on Jim Reiser as a guest author. Would you like to see Jim’s first article with About.com: Swimming? Get Jim’s latest tips on how to prevent crying in Parent and Toddler Swimming Lessons. Check out the article today:   “How to Prevent Crying in Infant or Toddler [...]