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
Your child learns to keep swimming, calmly and steadily, all the way to the end instead of stopping to grab the side. It is the step that turns a few good strokes into real, useful swimming.
You learn to swim at a comfortable, steady effort for longer, without needing to stop. It is the kind of swimming that builds fitness and feels good, rather than leaving you gasping.
Teens · Adults · SeniorsYou learn to pick a speed and keep it, so every length takes about the same time and feels about the same. It makes your swims more comfortable and helps you get more out of them.
Teens · Adults · SeniorsYou learn to read a pace clock, a large swimming clock you can see from the water, and start each swim at a planned time. It helps you swim to a plan on your own and get ready for club or group swimming.
You learn to notice when tiredness starts to change your stroke, and what to do about it. Longer swims then feel safer, smoother and more enjoyable.
You learn to swim clearly easy, then clearly faster, and to settle your breathing afterwards. It adds variety to your swims and puts you in charge of your effort.
Your child learns to count their strokes across the pool and keep track of their lengths. It turns swimming into a game of noticing, and shows how their stroke is improving.
You learn to check the water, agree on a plan and choose your way out before you ever get in. Most open-water problems are prevented on the shore, not solved in the water.
You learn to walk into open water slowly and carefully, feeling the ground and letting your body get used to the temperature. You also learn to come back to the exit you chose, with your buddy.
Teens · Adults · SeniorsYou learn to lift your eyes briefly to spot a landmark, so you swim where you mean to go. In open water, there is no line on the bottom to follow.
Teens · Adults