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“Fantastic lessons at swimming nature”

written by on 31/05/2013

My son is six and has not had swimming lessons since he was a baby. Reasonably confident in the water, he was not making much progress going to the pool with me, wanting to cling on to me or rest on a noodle. I decided to get him some fast track lessons as we are going to a French campsite with a big pool complex in the summer and I want him to be really confident and able to swim.

He has just finished a series of four half-hour lessons with swimming nature and I am blown away by his progress. His teacher was amazing, so patient, attentive, always saying just the right thing to motivate and move things forward. He had one to one lessons which are not cheap but were worth every penny. After the first lesson he could float on his own, on his front and back, push off from the side and swim a short distance. He was delighted to learn a simple trick to help him breathe underwater. On the second lesson he swam about 8 metres on his back and was breathing with his full face in the water on his front. He won a badge for floatation, another the following day, and he loved the progression book he was given. It is very clear what he is going to do next, which he really likes, as he can challenge himself. In the last two lessons he learned to tread water, dive down to pick up objects, practised swimming on his front and back and is well on the way to proper side breathing for front crawl. Best of all he was glowing with pride. As soon as he got home, "Daddy, I'm so proud of myself". I've never heard him say that before about anything. He describes his teacher as "the best" and the whole experience as "awesome".

The pool was lovely and we were sent lots of useful details, including a picture of the pool, before we started.

I found booking easy and the guy I dealt with worked very hard to try to find weekly lessons for us. A the moment we are on a waiting list for weekly lessons which are convenient for us - though we would go out of our way to attend these lessons even if they were further from home or at a less convenient time.