Learning to swim should never feel like hard work.
Learn more about the Confident Swimming Way
3-Stage Adult Swimming Lesson Programme:
Foundation Pathway
(Beginners)
Our Foundation pathway will help those completely new to the water, or those who may need to start afresh to fill some missing gaps in their development. You’ll learn how to acclimatise and adapt to the water environment, developing a fundamental sense of stability (a hidden yet essential process) and understanding the importance of our breath, our posture, and of developing our hand-water connection throughout the process of learning to swim.
We’ll cover and master essential, foundational skills such as being able to float and glide (and return to a standing position safely) as well as bringing in some basic swimming movements, in a completely relaxed, independent, and controlled manner.
After completion of the Foundation pathway, you’ll be set up to proceed with two further pathways, completely unique in their own way, and we can work on both simultaneously: Natural Swimming and Efficient Strokes
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Our Foundation pathway will help those completely new to the water, or those who may need to start afresh to fill some missing gaps in their development. You’ll learn how to acclimatise and adapt to the water environment, developing a fundamental sense of stability (a hidden yet essential process) and understanding the importance of our breath, our posture, and of developing our hand-water connection throughout the process of learning to swim.
We’ll cover and master essential, foundational skills such as being able to float and glide (and return to a standing position safely) as well as bringing in some basic swimming movements, in a completely relaxed, independent, and controlled manner.
After completion of the Foundation pathway, you’ll be set up to proceed with two further pathways, completely unique in their own way, and we can work on both simultaneously:
Natural Swimming
and
Stroke Efficiency
Natural Swimming
(Beginners / Improvers)
Our Natural Swimming pathway will enable and empower you to feel safe, relaxed, and in control in the water. You’ll learn to master the hand-water connection, and develop total control over your body in the water, so that you can feel free and ‘at one’ with the water at all times — and at any depth.
This will involve learning to swim the ‘head up Breaststroke’ (an often neglected swimming skill, because it can be inconvenient — and often challenging — for teachers to teach). You will learn how to float and swim on the back in a relaxed and effortless way, including sculling on the back, treading water, and being able to rotate in the water from front to back, and back to front, as well as move in all directions. You’ll also learn to transition between ‘underwater’ swimming and ‘head above water swimming’ with ease, giving you total versatility and control in the water, and helping to equip you with necessary water safety skills — and the ability to simply enjoy being in the water — for the rest of your life.
For many adults wanting to learn to swim, the skills we learn in the Foundation and Natural Swimming pathways are often the missing piece of the puzzle in their search for basic comfort, ease of swimming, and enjoyment of the water.
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Our Natural Swimming pathway will enable and empower you to feel safe, relaxed, and in control in the water. You’ll learn to master the hand-water connection, and develop total control over your body in the water, so that you can feel free and ‘at one’ with the water at all times — and at any depth.
This will involve learning to swim the ‘head up Breaststroke’ (an often neglected swimming skill, because it can be inconvenient — and often challenging — for teachers to teach). You will learn how to float and swim on the back in a relaxed and effortless way, including sculling on the back, treading water, and being able to rotate in the water from front to back, and back to front, as well as move in all directions. You’ll also learn to transition between ‘underwater’ swimming and ‘head above water swimming’ with ease, giving you total versatility and control in the water, and helping to equip you with necessary water safety skills — and the ability to simply enjoy being in the water — for the rest of your life.
For many adults wanting to learn to swim, the skills we learn in the Foundation and Natural Swimming pathways are often the missing piece of the puzzle in their search for basic comfort, ease of swimming, and enjoyment of the water.
Stroke Efficiency
(Improvers / Advanced)
Our Stroke Efficiency pathway will focus on refining and improving the efficiency of your swimming strokes, which may be for exercise / health purposes, for competition such as triathlon, or for any other specific goals. Our focus will usually be on the Front Crawl, and / or Breaststroke — although Backstroke and Butterfly can be included if desired.
Most people struggle with their strokes because they are fundamentally tense and out of control when swimming, and this is often due to lacking basic coordination and balance in the water, or through simply having the wrong perception that we need to try hard or put in a lot of effort to swim well.
When mastering your strokes, you’ll learn my concept of ‘focussed effort’, so that you’ll be able to apply your effort in the most efficient and effective of ways, using the correct muscle groups, at exactly the right moments in the stroke. This results in less ‘wasted’ effort, enabling you to incorporate much more relaxation into your strokes, helping them to become more sustainable, enjoyable, smoother, faster, and more efficient.
The perfect swimming strokes are a fine balance between effort, but also relaxation — and this is why you’ll see extremely efficient and fast swimmers, look so smooth and relaxed!
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Our Stroke Efficiency pathway will focus on refining and improving the efficiency of your swimming strokes, which may be for exercise / health purposes, for competition such as triathlon, or for any other specific goals. Our focus will usually be on the Front Crawl, and / or Breaststroke — although Backstroke and Butterfly can be included if desired.
Most people struggle with their strokes because they are fundamentally tense and not fully in control when swimming, and this is often due to lacking basic coordination and balance in the water, or through simply having the wrong perception that we need to try hard or put in a lot of effort to swim well.
When mastering your strokes, you’ll learn my concept of ‘focussed effort’, so that you’ll be able to apply your effort in the most efficient and effective of ways, using the correct muscle groups, at exactly the right moments in the stroke. This results in less ‘wasted’ effort, enabling you to incorporate much more relaxation into your strokes, helping them to become more sustainable, enjoyable, smoother, faster, and more efficient.
The perfect swimming strokes are a fine balance between effort, but also relaxation — and this is why you’ll see extremely efficient and fast swimmers, look so smooth and relaxed!