Find Great Swimming Instruction?
Summer is a wonderful time to learn to swim or to brush up on
your swimming skills. In the summertime, many different community
pool and beach areas offer swimming instruction to all levels of
swimmers. In order to find a great swimming instructor, there are a
few key points to keep in mind. First, you must accurately gauge
your own swimming ability. Secondly, you must determine where you
would like to learn to swim. In other words, do you plan on
swimming mostly in the ocean, a pool or a lake? Finally, you must
decide if you would like to take private swimming lessons, group
lessons or a combination of both.
As you look for a great swimming instructor to teach you how to
swim, or how to swim more easily and efficiently if you have the
basics down, your first step is to accurately gauge your swimming
level in different types of conditions. If you do not know how to
swim at all, you are obviously a beginner. If you are comfortable
in the shallow end of a community pool, but uncomfortable in the
deep end, you are most likely a beginning to intermediate swimmer.
If you are planning on swimming competitively and are working on
perfecting your swimming style, you will want to choose a more
advanced swimming instruction class.
There are also different types of swimming environments. An
ocean with rough surf is a very different place to swim and will
take much stronger swimming skills than in a municipal pool. If you
plan on swimming in rougher water, it would be best to take a
swimming course geared for that type of swimming. Prior to signing
up for swimming lessons, do consider the types of areas in which
you plan to swim most of the time.
Many pool facilities, beach and lake areas offer both private
and group swimming instruction. If you are a beginning swimmer, you
may want to take a few private lessons to get started and then sign
up for group lessons. If you are an advanced swimmer interested in
perfecting your skills, you may also want to take some private
swimming instruction lessons.
Irregardless of the level of swimming instruction you choose,
your swimming instructor should be certified as a Water Safety
Instructor and should also be certified in C.P.R. The swimming
instructor you choose should have certification cards that he or
she can readily show to you. This will ensure that you find the
best swimming instruction available to you in your area.