MARSHALL SCUBA SWIM & SAFETY
Individual Needs & Instructor Training Centre
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SWIM SCHOOL COURSES
Before scuba, comes swimming. With Marshall Scuba Swim & Safety, we expect all of our instructors to be able to teach both scuba and swimming. Thus, as an organisation, we offer swimming at all levels for Babies, Youth, Teenagers, and Adults. Our own experience in swim teaching reaches back to 1980.
All of our Swim Teachers are
internationally CERTIFIED !!
BABY & ME CLASSES
EARLY INFANT SWIM
0-6 months Infants are introduced to the water with a focus on parent-baby bonding, and getting the infants familiar with how their bodies relate to the natural buoyancy of the water.
6-18 MONTHS
Babies are like little sponges, soaking up information from their new environment. This is a fun and relaxed aquatic experience for parent and infant, introducing kicking, bubble blowing, and safety skills. Parental involvement in the lesson is particularly important.
18-35 MONTHS
No prior swimming experience is necessary. Water safety is a very important aspect this class. Parents and their children work together with teacher and learn to climb out of the pool independently, how to properly do safety jumps and swim back to the wall, back floats, an introduction to rollover breathing, and wall-walking.
18-35 MONTHS ADVANCED
Entering this class babies should be comfortable in class (no crying), be able to do a 10 count submersion, and use either their arms or legs to move. Parents and their children work together Babies are also challenged to learn basic swimming skills and techniques, such as flutter kicks with reaches, kicks on their backs, and rollover breathing,
AQUABABY 1 AND 2
This class is for babies 24 -35 months old that have completed the skills in the 18-35 months Advanced level. This is the first class in which the parents are not in the water. Babies are challenged with further swim distances, using rollover breathing, independent back floating and back glide with kick.
If you're interested in our Swim Classes, please contact us below:
LEVEL 1 SWIM CLASS
INTERMEDIATE I
The goal of this class is to teach students to swim the Freestyle stroke, and to dive and swim across the pool.
INTERMEDIATE II
At the end of this class students should be swimming both freestyle with bilateral breathing and elementary backstroke and be able to tread for 2 minutes.
LEVEL 2 SWIM CLASS
ADVANCED I
A class for children who already swimming both freestyle with bilateral breathing and elementary backstroke. The goals for this class are competitive free, back, and breaststroke.
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ADVANCED II
A class for those currently performing competitive free, back, and breastroke. The goal for this class is swimming the competitive butterfly stroke.)
ADULT SWIM CLASSES
BEGINNER COURSE DESCRIPTION
Swim lessons are held once a week in the evening for one hour. When you begin your swim lessons you are in water so shallow (4 feet) you can stand up if you so choose. We provide and fit you with a FREE safety vest. Additionally, we provide a FREE snorkel mask, and fins. Using a fully inflated safety vest means you cannot sink, like training wheels on a bicycle. Next, with the confidence that you cannot sink. We will teach you to use your arms and legs for propulsion. We want you to focus on your arm and leg movements prior to mastering breathing. As you progress at your own pace, you will soon be able to start releasing some of the air from the safety vest. In time, at your own pace, you will begin swimming independently of the equipment.
SWIM TEACHER
-Certification Courses-
Baby & Me Swim Teacher
It takes a special person with a special love of children to teach a baby swim class, so Swim Schools International offers a program for teaching only babies under 3 years of age. Focus is less on swimming at this age, and more about comfort and safety in and around the water. Primarily, our certified teachers learn how to instruct the parents on what to do in the water with their children and offered structured play to reduce fear and increase comfort in the water.
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Level 1 Swim Teacher
A teacher certified with the credentials for a Level 1 Swim Teacher is ready and able to teach beginner swimmers, from 3 years of age all the way up to adult.
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Level 2 Swim Teacher
Prerequisite: Level 1 Swim Teacher
The Level 2 Swim Teacher picks up in instruction where the Level 1 Swim Teacher leaves off. At this level, emphasis is placed on technical perfection of the strokes themselves, and introduces the swimmers to competitive strokes and endurance swimming.
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Adult Swim Teacher
Prerequisite: Level 1 Swim Teacher
Prerequisite: Level 2 Swim Teacher
Certified Adult Teachers do just that - teach adults to swim. Which means the challenges of teaching and the dynamics of the classes will be vastly different from teaching children. Our Teacher training and certification reflects these differences and provides the option of expanding an aquatic training facility's options to include a completely different market - the adult non-swimmer.
If you're interested in becoming a certified
Swim Teacher, please contact us below: