Swim School News – “Between the Lane Lines”
Understanding Swimming and its Benefits
Swimming is a great activity that everyone can enjoy throughout the year. If you are someone who doesn’t know how to swim, you are seriously missing out. Swimming is one of the best exercises a person can do, not to mention it’s one of the few exercises which uses the...
Keeping Kids Safe in the Water
During hot weather and summer vacation, swimming is a low-cost and great way to enjoy the days beating the heat. What people don’t realize is that the possibility of drowning is all around us; it actually only takes one inch of water to drown. Unfortunately, drowning...
Head Position While Swimming Freestyle
I recently read an article on head position from The Race Club, by Gary Hall Sr., in which Mr. Hall discusses the head position while swimming freestyle. He mentions both looking forward and looking down as being correct, depending on the style of freestyle you might...
Manhattan Beach Open Water Channel Swimming Clinic
This four-day intensive Manhattan Beach Open Water Channel Swimming Clinic by One with the Water, was designed by Coach Mallory Mead to introduce aspiring channel swimmers to the basic skills and knowledge needed to prepare for a channel swim in a small group setting....
Adult Learn To Swim Month with One with the Water
April is Adult Learn-to-Swim Month and One with the Water® is committed to Preventing Adult Drowning in Our Community One with the Water® is joining in with multiple national organizations in the campaign to help prevent adult drowning. We want you to know about the...
Strengthening Your Abs – By Starting Strength
"Abs" - The Muscles that Surround the Abdomen "In every weight room in all the countries of the world since the dawn of training with weights, the single biggest distraction from the actual task at hand has been abs. Or rather, an obsession with/ misunderstanding of...
The Self-Reflecting Pool of One with the Water
In a recent article, "The Self-Reflecting Pool," by Bonnie Tsui, dated Feb. 14, 2014, she wrote that two people created a map of "every single swimming pool in Los Angeles — 43,123 of them, to be exact." That's a lot of water! And that's why being One with the Water®...
Swimming Skills for Adult Beginners
Skills taught in Adult Beginner Swimming Lessons Fully submerge face Proper breathing – out the nose, in the mouth Proper breathing with Bobbing – 10 seconds Prone float, glide and recovery Supine float, glide and recovery Flutter kicking prone position, arms in your...
Swimming Skills for Children – Level 6
Skills taught in Level VI Aquatics for Children Freestyle – 100 yards Breaststroke – 50 yards Butterfly – 50 yards Elementary Backstroke – 100 yards Backstroke – 50 yards Sidestroke – 50 yards Open Turns – Breaststroke and Butterfly Front Flip Turn While Swimming...
Swimming Skills for Children – Level 5
Skills taught in Level V Aquatics for Children Freestyle – 50 yards Breaststroke – 50 yards Butterfly – 25 yards Elementary Backstroke – 50 yards Backstroke – 25 yards Sidestroke – 25 yards Sculling – 30 seconds Front Flip Turn Backstroke Flip Turn Shallow Racing Dive...