Lesson Trends for 2020
Smaller groups. Swim teachers doing private lessons while on deck. Parents and guardians working in the water with their own children with the teacher in a remote position.
Some instructors, such as Robert A. Strauss of Miami, Florida's Swim Gym, have turned to internet lesson plans to better instruct the adults in how to teach the kids. A worry is a spike in deaths due at home pools due to distracted parents, more time at home and a lack of swim lessons.
Infant, child lessons
Drowning is a global epidemic claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year
A majority of the water-related deaths are children belonging to minority and low income populations, traditionally underserved in the aquatics community. (See more at the diversity page.)
Get Your Feet Wet - Swimming, is an online resource that can be deployed in camps, lesson programs and in your community.
Summer Dreamers playing water polo
Swim Lessons with a Ball or a Disk, and fins and fitness
Learning to swim comes along with improved listening skills and opportunities to play well with others.
Swimmers on pool deck at Ammon with swim fins and SKWIM in background
Growing Great Kids
Technique Videos from The Stroke Doctor
What equipment gimmicks would you devise with some of these items?
Pool noodle hacks
Got Noodles? Of course you do.By placing a pool noodle in the
Sportsmanship lesson: Flinging a shoe, flipper or fin can end your team’s playoff hopes.
LSU Tigers visit Florida Gators on Trophy Weekend on the GridironA win
ISCA helped in a sponsorship role with the SKWIM & Water Polo camp experience with Pittsburgh Public Schools in 2020 – now time for plans for 2021
Plant seeds in December and January! Plan for summer now with local,
Grassroots swimming discussion with Robert Stauss of Miami and Mark, ISCA’s webmaster and coach
Learn to swim and water safety content from Miami with Coach Robert, an aquatic guru
Insights:Okay, I got a better handle on this. He does a seminar
Introducing the International Swim Coaches App [ISCA]
Free curated content in ISCA’s new mobile app, brought to you by
High School Sports without spectators means switching to broadcasting duties with gusto!
Games won't happen at all if there are issues around the gate.The
Parent Water Safety Guide
Swim fin basics from Kevin McCarthy
The quest for water. Sports Illustrated article link
Article on Sports IllustratedQuest for Water Screen grab of SI articleQuest for
Summer Swimming
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SUMMER LEAGUE SWIMMING AND YEAR ROUND SWIM TRAINING TAKE HOME
Diversity
The Diversity in Aquatics Movement The focus is on empowering communities through
Pool Pokie — swim yourself around — with Robert
Swimming on a rope!
GoSwim.tv talks and demonstrates tethered swimmingWonderful introduction!Some extra ideas from MarkWe called
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