Packing 4 or 5 weeks’ worth of lessons into 4 or 5 days at an intensive swimming course can make all the difference to a scared toddler, a nervous 3 year old, or a 7 year old struggling to progress through to strokes. Local Swimming Experts, Cindy’s Swim School share their experience of why holiday camps and crash courses can be so beneficial and a vital part of a child’s swimming journey.
Crash course swimming lessons just have so many positives, not only will it give the kids something fun to do every day, but it will also work deeply on a psychological level, allowing the swimmer to quickly build a foundation and strengthen it before things such as anxiety and overthinking creep in and complicate matters.
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From water safety to lifeguarding!
Did you know that holiday swimming crash courses provide an excellent opportunity for kids to become much safer swimmers? Daily swimming lessons boosts confidence and enhances safety in the water by focusing on building essential skills, such as water confidence, proper breathing with face in the water, floating, and basic strokes. Water safety underpins everything we teach, so swimmers will also be taught the relevant water safety skills for their age and ability. By the end of the course, children will feel more comfortable and secure in the water, making them safer swimmers.
If you have an older, or stronger swimmer, you can look at squad focused intensive swimming course. These types of sessions focus on proper technique for all strokes, starts, turns and finishes. At Cindy's Swim the last 15 minutes of every session focuses on Rookie Lifeguarding and lifesaving skills. These sessions are also particularly good if you have varying ability children, as we run lessons from Stage 1-10 in our bigger pools, as well as adult lessons – which makes it a one stop shop for all your holiday swimming fun!
The amazing leaps and bounds of accelerated learning
One astonishing benefit of a holiday crash course is the way it can accelerate the learning process. Unlike traditional swimming lessons that span over several months, these intensive courses condense the curriculum into a shorter timeframe. This concentrated approach allows children to progress rapidly, mastering new techniques and strokes in a shorter period, helping them progress much further in no time at all. This can be particularly helpful in those circumstances where a swimmer is struggling to progress through a new stroke or make the leap from no face in the water to proper submerged breathing.
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