Welcome to Confident Swimming—Oxford’s Adult Swimming Lesson Specialist

Whatever your goals, dreams, and ambitions, my passion is in helping you to achieve your fullest potential in the water

Are you looking for Adult Swimming Lessons in Oxford?

With over 15 years of dedicated, full-time experience in teaching adult swimming lessons in Oxford, Tim at Confident Swimming offers a unique, gentle and empowering pathway toward helping adults of all ages learn to swim and improve their swimming ability.

Meet Tim

Whether you've just decided to pursue adult swimming lessons as a complete beginner, or if you’re looking to improve your speed and efficiency for exercise or triathlon; develop water skills and confidence so you can enjoy swimming with friends and family; or if you’d like to master a completely new stroke, I am committed to helping you get to exactly where you want to be with your swimming ability.

My unique adult swimming lesson programme, developed over more than 15 years, has enabled a large number of adults to finally experience the joy of swimming—even after many years of unsuccessful attempts at learning to swim elsewhere.

My greatest passion is in being in the water and helping other adults learn to swim, empowering you to become more capable and confident in the water, and enabling you to enjoy the many health benefits of swimming.

There is nothing better for our bodies and for our minds

  • "Tim clearly has a passion for swimming and for helping others"

    —Alice R.

  • "My lessons with Tim have literally been life changing, and I have developed a real love for swimming"

    —Sarah L.

  • "He helped me to understand and build a relationship with the water, which is an incredibly rewarding experience"

    —Taylor T.

  • "I have gained so much more confidence and understanding of how the stroke should be performed”

    —Ruth T.

  • "I was surprised by how relaxing and fun he has made swimming for me"

    —Meenu Y.

  • "Tim is patient, knowledgeable, kind and fun to work with—his passion for swimming is genuinely infectious"

    —Jay D.

  • "With Tim’s amazing awareness of my fear and gentle approach, he guided me, never rushing nor forcing, just gently progressing my confidence and ability"

    —Emma C.

  • "Tim has enabled me, someone with a lifetime fear of water—to swim"

    —Elizabeth S.

  • "I wholeheartedly recommend Tim to any adult seeking to learn to swim or to improve their technique"

    —Kirstine K.

The most important thing when learning to swim as an adult is that you feel comfortable and relaxed with your instructor. You can schedule a call with Tim at any time if you’d like to chat anything over with him directly—he’d love to hear about your swimming experiences and future goals.

Our Unique Approach to Adult Swimming Lessons

If you have attempted to learn to swim in the past but didn’t get to where you dream of being, I can promise you—there is hope! Confident Swimming offers an alternative approach to learning to swim as an adult.

In-Water Support

Unlike with a majority of group swimming lessons for adults, I will always be present in the water with you throughout your development as a swimmer. I am able to provide the necessary—and often essential—support and assistance in your early stages of learning that will enable you to become truly independent, in control, and empowered in the water.

Group lessons will often bypass this essential supportive step by giving you a float/kickboard to consistently hold on to, instead of enabling you to develop the most important connection of all when learning to swim: the intuitive connection between your hands and the water.

Being present in the water also allows me to visually demonstrate movements, practices, and perform the strokes as we progress—making them easier and clearer for you to understand.

Adult learns to swim with in-water support

Video Analysis (Improvers)

I can offer instant video analysis of your technique from within the water, allowing us to pinpoint areas for improvement on-the-spot, helping to accelerate your stroke development. (After our session, I can send you copies of any footage taken, enabling you to review your technique and track your own progress over time.)

Mastery of the Fundamentals

Many people struggle to swim easily and efficiently, not because they are being taught the wrong technique, but because they are missing the underlying fundamentals to correctly apply that technique.

Whether you are learning to float or move through the water for the very first time, or if you are refining your front crawl stroke to further improve your swimming speed and efficiency, we will build things up at every stage from the core foundations of developing:

• Coordination
• Balance / Core Stability, and
• a State of Relaxation in the water

These are the hidden, and so often neglected fundamentals, that are absolutely essential to developing smooth, easy, relaxing, safe and efficient swimming.

An exciting and empowering journey awaits…

ITV Meridian News clip on Adults Learning to Swim (watch Tim’s contribution from 1:07)