When you are teaching any given swimming technique, your instructions typically should focus your swim lesson students on a set of cues or buzzwords.  For example, you may say something like:  “Here we go, I want to see you keep your kick small and fast while during your side breathing.  Ready, go!”�
Because your instructions or [...]

Swim Lessons University just hosted its’ first of two “One-Day Conferences” for the fall of 2010.  Says swim school director Aileen Donnelly of New Jersey, “Thank you, Jim Reiser, for the seminar.  I learned some new ways to teach and I also loved that you reinforced how I teach swim lesson basics to my  five [...]

Just finished final preparations for my first talk in at the Swim Lessons University Super Conference in Indianapolis and Las Vegas.   Take a sneak preview of what will be addressed and swim lesson ideas in the talk titled:  Infant-Toddler Swimming:  Practical Benchmarks and Progressions

Brand new benchmarks for Infants & Toddlers
3 Types of Infant-Toddler Swimming Lessons
How your product will [...]

Dear Swim Professor,
I wanted to let you know I got my DVD’s today.   I wanted to write earlier, but have been extremely busy with lessons. Your swim lesson videos and swim lesson plans are so awesome!   I love the fact that you don’t display kids who already know how to swim to show strokes. [...]

There is so much we can learn from the late, legendary UCLA Basketball Coach John Wooden.     As a teacher, coach, and parent, I try to apply Coach Wooden’s life lessons every day.    I liked the 7 Point Creed so much I had it printed on my competitive swimmer’s t-shirts some years ago.   Since his [...]

I just got off the phone with my dentist, who called for some advice about her two year old’s swimming lessons.  She said, “Coach Jim, we just had our first lesson and it was awful!  Am I wasting my time?”
I put together a list of 5 Strategies and an analogy that will help make sense [...]

Pediatric Drowning Prevention Guidelines Updated

By Chris Emery, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
Published: May 24, 2010
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and
Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner

Action Points  

When I have a chance I really like to listen to “The Herd” on ESPN radio.   In fact, now that I get it on cable I will record it and even watch it when I’m winding down at the end of a long day.   Recently the radio show’s host Colin Cowerd talked about how the [...]

I will be heading up to my home state of Pennsylvania next weekend to attend the 9th Annual Drowning Prevention Symposium on April 26th and April 27th.  Many of my friends know that I am a Johnstown, PA native and did my undergraduate work at California University of PA, not to mention that I spent [...]

You are going to absolutely love our upcoming latest addition to Swim Lessons University. It our brand new “paperless” Swim Proficiency & Water Safety Awards System.  Here’s a brief summary of how it works:
Each child gets a silicone bracelet (Lance Armstrong type) which features 6 major skills that he or she will be working on [...]