Swim School News – “Between the Lane Lines”
Growth Mindset versus Mixed Mindset and the power to change.
At One with the Water, we have spoken at length about the growth mindset. In fact, it is an integral piece of our core coaching techniques. “As authority figures, the messages we send to students and clients about success can often cause them to fall into the fixed...
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Swimming and Dyslexia: Powerful Partners.
“Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the...
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Coaching Method: Crawl, walk, run.
We've all heard of the crawl, walk, run concept of teaching new skills, whether it be in sport or elsewhere. At the core, the crawl to walk developmental sequence involves patterned neural activity, perception, cognition, and social interaction that has sequential...
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CPR Saves Lives
Sometimes the news can be overwhelming. Right now, LA County caught on fire seemingly overnight. Hundreds of thousands of Northern Californians are without power. Hurricane Dorian almost shut down the entire East Coast last month. In any disaster, natural or...
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Everyone Should Have Access to Swim Lessons.
At One with the Water, we believe that everyone should have access to the life-saving skill of swimming. The stats are worth mentioning once again. According to the CDC, approximately one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger. For every...
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Should your adaptive athlete join a swim team?
Swimming provides a whole-body experience for adaptive athletes, improving mental, physical, and emotional health. However, did you know there are specific benefits for adaptive athletes in joining a swim team? General health benefits for adaptive athletes. ...
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4 Basic Water Safety Skills For Swim Success
It is no secret on our blog here that we are huge champions of the growth mindset and the appropriate application thereof to the process of coaching swimmers of all ages. "At One with the Water, we teach swimming lessons using a Growth Mindset approach, is a...
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Back to School: Healthy Morning Habits
If you are like me, your Facebook feed is exploding with back to school photos. Cute smiles, brushed hair, and shining faces. Lunches are packed, new backpacks are brimming over with school supplies, and moms and dads everywhere are flopping down on the couch for a...
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The Inspiring Story of Paralympic Swimmer Jamal Hill
"You have the power to change you." - Jamal Hill L.A. based hometown hero Jamal Hill started swimming in mommy and me swim lessons and fell in love with the sport almost instantly. However, after swimming consistently throughout elementary school, Jamal was diagnosed...
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One with the Water Coaching Philosophy
It’s no secret how passionate we are about swimming lessons. We’ve shared the statistics with you on drowning again and again. We’ve also told you repeatedly how swim lessons reduce the risk of drowning up to 88% and are the number one intervention when it comes to...
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