Beginning Swim Classes Too Advanced for Many Beginners; Swim Instructor Conference...

Beginning Swim Classes Too Advanced for Many Beginners; Swim Instructor
Conference Slated

Beginning swim classes teach skills too advanced for many swim students to be
successful; a conference will train teachers in how to teach in order that all
can learn to swim

SARASOTA, Fla., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer thousands of children and
a few adults will enroll in Beginning Swimming lessons across the nation. Many
will learn easily and will progress to the next level. Many will make little
or no progress.

Those who make little or no progress will do so because they're at ground zero
with swim skills and they need to learn the first steps of swimming before
they're presented with more advanced skills. They need to learn how to keep
water out of their nose; how the water holds them up; when (if ever) water
does not hold them up; what happens when water gets into ones eyes and ears,
mouth and nose; how to hold one's breath; how long a breath lasts; how to
stand up from a float; how to know they don't need another breath yet; which
way is up; how to remain in control; the nuts and bolts of panic; how the
water works; how to maneuver at will in the water; the similarities between
shallow water and deep water; and finally, how to stay afloat in deep water
until help arrives. They're not ready yet to learn bubble-blowing, flutter
kick, and arm strokes.

Traditional lessons, though they teach classes called Beginning Swimming,
teach more advanced skills. Their curricula do not include many of these
basics. This is fine for many students since they can learn most of these
things without specifically being taught. However, currently a large
percentage of Beginning Swimming students don't "pass" Beginning Swimming.
They need the more basic skills.

If all students who take Beginning Swimming lessons could be met at their
level, all students could learn to swim: to be reliable in deep water. Once
students are reliable in deep water, they are no longer focused on survival
and therefore could learn strokes.

To train interested swim instructors in a way to meet all beginning swimmers
at their level and to guarantee success, a world swim instructors' conference
will be held in Sarasota, Florida, October 7-9, 2009 by Miracle Swimming
Institute (MSI) of Sarasota. MSI teaches these first steps to swim students
and holds instructor trainings to provide these steps to teachers and
therefore to true beginners, adults and children who need this information
before they can learn what traditional instructional agencies call "swimming."

MSI's goal is to reduce drowning worldwide to zero by 2106.

For further information, visit
http://www.conquerfear.com/v/vspfiles/training/conference.shtml or call
1-800-723-7946 (SWIM).

The 21st Century Swimming Instructor
Media Contact:
M. Ellen ("Melon") Dash
Miracle Swimming Institute
http://www.conquerfear.com
melon@conquerfear.com
941-921-6420

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SOURCE Miracle Swimming Institute

M. Ellen Dash of Miracle Swimming Institute, +1-941-921-6420,
melon@conquerfear.com