Fun and effective strategies for swimming lessons, teams, and Aquatic Professionals. Listen to best practices and interviews with other members of the swimming community to get the most out of your swimming program. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support
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SIP 102: Consistent Dedication to the Mundane
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Consistent dedication to the mundane like streamline Everyone has excellent streamline habit (all the time without thought). That to NOT do a streamline would make the swimmer physically uncomfortable. A feeling that excellence is expected with allowance for failure, improvement, and progress. Swimmers feel watched, celebrated, and encouraged to im…
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SIP 101: Routine for Developmental Swimming
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Establishing your habits, your consistency, and defining the framework that will lead to better swimmers faster. Why routine is important: SIP 052: Swimming is a habit (swimminglessonsideas.com) SIP 045: Importance of Routine (swimminglessonsideas.com) What is our routine and why do we do it? Warmup: 100 IM K 50 Swim 2 x 25 Position 11 Question of …
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This can be that guide for you. But… you need to know where you're going. What are you going to have as your plan? What is your formula for success going to be? How will you structure your swimming developmental program for fun and effective instruction. Fun. Children. Establishing habit. Enforcing excellence. You need to have a plan, a formula, an…
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SIP 099: Preparing for Developmental Season
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Document how to run an effective Developmental swim lesson program. What elements do you absolutely need to be effective? - A plan, formula, or guide - Routine - Consistent dedication to the mundane like streamline ○ Establishing habit ○ Instilling discipline (hard work and precise body control) - Balancing the hard work with fun; activity, activit…
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SIP 098: Create Challenges and Games for Swim Lessons
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How to come up with a game or a challenge. - Think of a core skill. - Put a roadblock into teaching that skill or performing it well ○ Examples - Evaluate whether it is fun ○ Achievable ○ Simple ○ Too difficulty ○ Teaching the wrong skill ○ Relevant enough to the original skillGames: - Think of a core skill, but in more broad terms like: ○ Streamli…
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SIP 097: Training Swim Instructors in person
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Today we look at the lesson coordinator handbook for finding an effective instruction segment on training swim instructors in person. We will do a brief overview of what's included in the workbook as well as any discussion on why certain elements are included and what the activity activity discussion format looks like. --- Support this podcast: htt…
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SIP 096: Finding Motivation after a Summer burn
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With all of summersinsane madness Are you ready to push through into fall and winter programming?That's right with all the rush, activity, intensity, and pure energy that comeswith the summer months where do you find the motivation to continue working onaquatic programming and hiring.? We're gonna take alook at how to set realistic and specific goa…
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SIP 095: Repeatable Parent Tot Lesson Plan
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Why we have a single sheet for repeating parent tot classes. What we used to do: - Follow the lesson plans based on day. - Challenges ○ People missed classes ○ Parents have VERY drastically different abilities, interest, and involvement. ○ New instructors not as familiar. - Have to find which day, which lesson ○ Different ability levels and ages in…
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SIP 094: Lesson Plans & Swim Instructor Struggles
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We review the swim lessons plans found at www.swimminglessonsideas.com and see how our swim instructors use them including their success and struggles. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support
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SIP 093: Three weeks with COVID-19 group swimming lessons
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What has it been like? What is our procedure? How do we teach? Challenges: Getting swimmers moving. Handling difficult swimmers. Coaching and commands. Resilience of children and adaptability. Tools: Lesson plans and TV for website lessons. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support…
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What should you do if you are comfortable? What should you do it if you're not comfortable? Covid-19 and the coronavirus pandemic is real. We just saw this week that the president got infected and foolishly hosted events without face coverings that subsequently infected many other people at a White house event. I know. This is insane. Right? If the…
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Find out what Swimming Ideas Level structure is and why we use it. Learn the nuances of each level and the progression of skills that takes a 3 year old who doesn't like the water to a competitive swim team swimmer. For all the information covered here go to: https://www.swimminglessonsideas.com/resources/ Level 1: https://www.swimminglessonsideas.…
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SIP 090: Teaching Swimming, Method and Delivery
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Today is all about the online course, Teaching Swimming, that comes with the companion PDF of the physical book available on Amazon. This training course covers the crucial skills your teachers need to begin having effective instruction. When your staff is confident, in command, and clear they can expand on having fun. We're going to review the bas…
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SIP 089: Safe children that LOVE swimming with Julia Johnson
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Teach better Parent Tot, Parent and Infant classes with Julia Johnson. Show notes here: https://www.swimminglessonsideas.com/blog/sip-089-safe-children-that-love-swimming-with-julia-johnson/ Julia Johnson grew up in Michigan where she learned to swim during summer swim lessons by going to beaches and pools. She swam competitively in high school and…
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SIP 088: Teaching Breaststroke Kick to Beginners
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Breaststroke kick is difficult to do. It is an unnatural motion for many swimmers. There will always be that small subsect of people that have learned how to do it on their own and in fact prefer it to the flutter kick motion. I believe these are people that pushed the water in the "breaststroke way" when they were learning and stuck with it becaus…
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I feel like one of the best ways to improve my coaching and teaching is to ask myself, "how can I improve?" We tell our swimmers to self-evaluate during their swimming. This is essentially what meditation is. Ask a question: https://anchor.fm/swimmingideas/message Meditation is training your brain to recognize it's doing something you don't want it…
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SIP 086: Training Summer Swim Lesson Managers
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What are the essential skills you should be teaching your lesson managers? You can find information at https://www.swimminglessonsideas.com/resources/ Under the Level Description guides. They details the specific needs of each "level" and what to look out for including guidance for lesson managers. Criteria for an effective swim lesson manager: - U…
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SIP 084: Why "Challenges" have replaced games.
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Intro: What are Challenges? Why have they replaced games? Quicker Individual based apply to broad ability levels tailored for groups sideways learning they are games celebrated success opportunities striving to "challenge" self improves overall swimming Live use Where you can find them Swim Challenges: The new swimming game standard. Practice Compo…
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SIP 085: Finding Deliberate Practice Opportunities at Swim Lessons and Practices
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What can you do at your swim practice and swim lessons to promote Deliberate Practice, and how does mediation teach you to be a better swimmer. What is deliberate practice: https://jamesclear.com/beginners-guide-deliberate-practice " While regular practice might include mindless repetitions, deliberate practice requires focused attention and is con…
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SIP 083: Writing swim practices during Covid-19
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We're running our swimming during covid in a small 4 lane indoor pool. Fans Open doors 7 at a time 2 in each lane on opposite ends. 1 in the ada staircase lane. 1 coach; now 2 coaches 2 lifeguards Line up outside and walk them in with a coach chaperone They have their own 6 ft distant places for stuff. Come in their suits Come wearing masks Coaches…
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SIP 082: Teaching Private lessons during Covid-19
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How should you protect yourself and others when you're teaching swimming lessons to individuals or duos? Today we're listening to a user submitted question and answering it after a brief unrecorded phone call. Rowenna and I spoke on the phone and we reviewed much of the same things. Her favorite games are Treasure hunt and diving games with multico…
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I talk to typebeat rapper swimcoach about life in Koreatown, his artistry as a typebeat rapper, his cat Gatsby, and much more
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I talk to Nashville artist Cale Tyson on this episode of With, Where, and Who. We talk about touring, music in Nashville, Quiktrip, and much more.
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I talk to Winona Forever about playing in Montreal and Vancouver, types of wine, POP Montreal, the bands they love, and much more on this episode of With, Where, and Who
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I talk with Ghost Moths on their Southern roots, crazy stories, and their various gigs.
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With, Where, and Who - Cardiac Half
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I talk with the band Cardiac Half on their musical influences, playing live music, promoting yourself as a band in the 21st century, and much more
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SIP 081: Sun Protection for Swim Instructors
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SUN SCREEN! SUN LOTION! SUN BLOCK! This is the most essential product you can buy. I'm talking about sun tan lotion. Sun block. We use this gallon jug. You can use this too. I suggest making it mandatory for all swim instructors to wear the lotion before they start their first lesson. When they're done teaching each class, they should get out of th…
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Brief guide on Autism from American Red Cross Swimming Water Saftey book --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support
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SIP 079: Do you need to license a swim program to be successful?
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No. Most parents don't care what your swim program system is. They care about three things: 1) Will their child learn how to swim? 2) Does it fit into their schedule? 3) Is it within their budget? They're more worried about making the most out of their time and effort to bring their kid to swim lessons. They want progress, they want success, but th…
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Dr. Alan Goldberg, www.competitivedge.com Getting parents to work with, not against you. Blog post about day 1 handout. http://swimminglessonsideas.com/2017/09/17/handout-for-first-day-of-swim-lessons-for-parents-what-to-expect/ Day 2 handouts: https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/completelessondocuments/Administration/Day+2+Handouts+(1).pdf Be proac…
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SIP 077: Central State swim Clinic Part 2
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Recap from Dr. Alan Goldberg and Josh Davis. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support
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Ok. The first thing is to get in the water. The second thing to do is to touch the bottom with your hand. Easy? Easy peezy? Now we're going to swim front crawl or freestyle with side breathing from here to there. (one length). Well done. Can you touch the bottom, here? Where did you learn how to swim? Ok. Now we're going to do back stroke all the w…
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SIP 074: A quick update and reminder about structure
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i'll be interviewing a person about how to teach swimming lessons to autistic kids. She is an expert in adaptive physical education for special needs children and will be an excellent resource. I'm hoping to connect with Nitro tash to get her take on her new swim lesson format with her pool in Perth, Australia. Look for updates to swimminglessonsid…
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SIP 073: What to do when veteran staff suck
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Correct your teachers that aren't performing like they should! Give initial feedback. Restrain anger and disappointment. Immediate debrief and followup. Frame things in the future. next time do this. Retrain. Deal with it in private. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support…
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Lots of talk about breath; on land, in the water, in small groups, and over short distances. Most effective initially with short distances, and constant discussion about it. Some level of attenuation. Lean what we do in dryland, and in our small groups to progressively move through breathing on land to maintaining the breath in the water. Struggle …
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Get ready to experience the next supplemental guide for better swim lessons! We've been refining the general format of our swim lessons. Ever forward, and ever working on refinement we've been teaching lessons using this new take on an old favorite. For a long time we've incorporated the "learn something, learn something, play a game format." you c…
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SIP 070: What you need to start teaching swimming
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Get the basics for your new swim program. If you're already established, take these ideas and see if you're already doing them. Question from John from the UK. He asked me very generally what he could do to get started. He had bought the swimming ideas lesson plans which you can get here: https://swimminglessonsideas.com/store/ But he was uncertain…
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SIP 069: Foundational Breathing Method for swimming
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Dominic Latella from theswimbox.com stops by to talk about his online course about breathing and to follow up on his sensational comments. We talk about a lot of different things regarding swimming. Dominic lets us know some details about his most recent training trip to the Bahamas, and who makes the best eggs in his family. I believe that my eggs…
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SIP 068: Is it okay to just play games with 3 year olds?
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Take a look with me at the 3 year old class I've been teaching for the last 6 weeks. Look at the games we play and how I've been successful getting them in the water when half the class was crying and terrified the first few lessons. Yes! It is okay to play games with 3 year olds, and I would even say that you should be playing mostly games and sin…
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Finding deliberate practice in your swimming lessons and swim team.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/supportBy Swimming Ideas
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In depth look at our dryland program for beginning swim team or a level 4 class.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/supportBy Swimming Ideas
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Update for 2018! Wow. We have a lot of new material and action ready for you in the next year. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/swimmingideas/support
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SIP 064: Finding balance through Yoga for swimming
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http://www.excelwithgrace.ca/ Jeff Grace http://www.excelwithgrace.ca/jeff-grace.html Check out his online videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYfIfs2Fz5G6W_to2PAUS9Q I really enjoyed talking with Jeff from Excel with Grace. I loved how he gave specific examples and connections to the more ethereal mind and attention to specific swimming …
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SIP 063: "Failure" for the last two weeks
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And how it has been fun and full of healthy improvement. Preface: I run safe and encouraging practices. I get along well with my swimmers and their parents. I can't think of a time I was upset with a parent that knew me or has watched a practice. We fill our time building up our swimmers by giving them regular feedback. They experience more than 10…
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Today is a short podcast about how I failed when taking a child underwater. I went to the beach with my friend and his family and while swimming with their 3 year old, I did the motorboat game, and dunked her to disastrous results. Find out the three things I did wrong! 1) Trust 2) Expectations 3) Appropriate activity Learn why I made this colossal…
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SIP 061: Provocative breathing, mediation, and better coaching
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We want to make swimmers better. I had so much fun talking to Dominic Latella from SwimBox. He said multiple times that making swimmers better is his primary goal. He wants to help people and work with others that share that goal. You can see it shine through everything he says in our conversation. Dive into this episode and share his enthusiasm. B…
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The summer is almost upon us and you're going to start running training classes for your summer and seasonal staff. Slap on the sunscreen, wear a floppy hat, and get those kids moving! This is our guide to running effective training sessions. We are going to assume that you are a park district or a large program that has hired a decent sized staff …
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SIP 059: Preparing at home swim lessons
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Safe Splashes Swim School in Arizona with Teresa Stewart safesplashesswim@gmail.com Teresa has been teaching swim lessons most of her life. She uniquely finished her lesson program while young and they made her a co-teacher to give her something to do while at lessons. She has contributed to the Swimming Lessons Ideas website, and has two posts you…
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Episode 057 with Meighan Julbert: "Focus on the 2-3 things totally essential for swimmer's success." Episode 055 with Karis Mount: "My coaches focused on the one thing that would make me improve. We were focused." Episode 054 with Jennifer Butler: "When giving feedback, focus on the one thing that will help them the most." Effective Teaching from U…
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