I have been swimming for a long time, but just recently took up teaching. This happened after speaking to the leisure centre manager in my area and asking him to provide adult swimming lessons. His reply was we can't provide one but maybe you should start teaching.
So I've started by teaching breaststroke - as we do in Europe. I find that people with little experience in water can find their balance in the water a lot easier with breaststroke.
However, I think my question applies to all strokes, is it a lot easier to teach someone to swim badly than to swim well? It would seem that teaching people to glide properly in breaststroke and glide between strokes, is harder than teaching them to just do the type of breaststroke most people do (i.e. head up - constant movement of arms and legs).
Any tips from anyone? Sorry if it a bit disjointed!!
A Mayim
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thanx for the idea. Like you I learnt to encorporate the glide only after years of swimming the old style. For people like us who have lots of confidence in the water I suppose it's easy to adapt. I'm just surprised at how long it's taking them to learn. Mind you they only swim once a week and they're not the most coordinated of folk,
Thanx,
A Mayim
thanx for the idea. Like you I learnt to encorporate the glide only after years of swimming the old style. For people like us who have lots of confidence in the water I suppose it's easy to adapt. I'm just surprised at how long it's taking them to learn. Mind you they only swim once a week and they're not the most coordinated of folk,
Thanx,
A Mayim
