Every swimmer starts somewhere. Explore the skills our certified instructors teach one-on-one at your home, condo, rented or community pool, from first floats to race-ready strokes.
Filter skills
Before any dive, your child learns to check that the water is deep enough and that diving is allowed. If they can't be sure of both, they go in feet first.
Your child learns to choose the right size lifejacket with an adult and put it on so it stays in place. A lifejacket only does its job when it fits.
Kids · Teens · Adults · SeniorsWearing a well-fitted lifejacket, your child learns to get in calmly, float, turn and move toward a way out. It turns the lifejacket from something they wear into something they know how to use.
Kids · Teens · Adults · Seniors
Your child learns to help someone in the water without getting in, by reaching out with a pole or throwing something that floats. Shouting for an adult always comes first, and staying on the side keeps your child safe.
Your child learns what trouble in the water really looks like, which is often quiet and easy to miss. They also learn that the right thing to do is tell a lifeguard or adult straight away.
Your child learns to shout for the supervising adult or lifeguard straight away, and to say clearly where they are and what happened. Older children and teens also practise a pretend call to emergency services.