Aquatic professionals know that none of us know everything. We reach out for more information, connect with others, and see how fellow instructors tackle common problems.
My goal with Swimming Ideas and the All Access Membership is to provide clear, simple tools that make your training, instruction, and teaching experience easier.
Better lessons, together. Fun and effective swimming instruction. All Access tools make that goal a reality. Interested? Let’s look at how.
Swimming Games and Challenges Inside the Lesson Plans
90% of new visitors come from the Swimming Lessons Games page, searching for fun ways to teach swimming.
Maybe you’re here to discover ways to engage your swimmers through interesting games, or to energize your lesson program beyond the drudgery of repetition, drills, and stale activities.
We want you to have fun and effective swimming lessons. Games and challenges are the spice and flavor of every lesson, practice, and coaching session.
Challenges and games range from the simple to the complex:
Simple Games and Challenges
Complex Games and Challenges
Every Lesson Plan from Parent Tot, Guppies, and Levels 1–4 Has Games and Challenges
That’s right — every single lesson plan includes multiple games and challenges baked in. Use them until you’re comfortable creating your own.
Most people reference lesson plans when they’re starting out. As they develop mastery and comfort, the need for referencing decreases. That’s natural. That’s expected.
We want you to build the confidence and ability to create your own lesson flow without having to look at a waterproof piece of paper all the time. But until you’re ready, the lesson plans serve as a reliable reference guide.
The Challenges Get More Interesting, Difficult, and Dynamic
As swimmers and instructors use the lesson plans, they’ll become more familiar with the concepts and flow of your lessons. The progression builds naturally, keeping everyone engaged and challenged.
Adapting Challenges for Different Levels
Swimmers will master challenges and ask for more! Instructors can look at a basic challenge above and think, “what roadblock can I put in this challenge to make it more interesting?”
One thing for 5 toes above the water is, to add body parts, remove support, and increase the duration. Change a variable, and adapt this simple level 1 challenge to all levels and abilities!
Level 4 Challenges
For level 4, the first challenge is pushing off the wall in airplane position. We can assume a large number of things about the competency and ability of a swimmer in this level versus someone in level 1. We know they can do a front glide, go underwater, recover to standing, know what a streamline is, and know how to do airplane comfortably.
And this challenge can be very difficult to accomplish even for the most advanced swimmers!
That’s the awesome part of our lesson plans games and challenges! They’re progressively appropriat for every level and there are multiple challenges and games in each day of lessons!
Iterating and Creating Your Own Games
Even better, is that you can iterate on the games and challenges. You can adapt them to your unique lessons and studetns. Do you want to swap out a challenge for something else? Go for it!
We want to teach you how to create games and challenges by guiding you through them each day and each level. As you get comfortable using them your understand will develop and you can begin creating your own!
Membership gives you lesson plans that are FULL of games!
Individuals
A single person can access online courses, documents, and a files.
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Agencies & Teams
Every staff member can access online courses, documents, and files
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