Adult Swimming Lessons today
What's Current in Swimming Lessons?
Since 1912, adults and children have taken "20th Century" lessons developed in 1912 by the man whose program became the Red Cross's and the Y's. Those lessons teach strokes, but many students fail to learn strokes because they're afraid in the water. They ask, "What if I drown? What if I sink? What if I panic? I want to feel safe before you teach me strokes." Strokes do not provide comfort or control in water...they only provide locomotion.
Until 1983, there were no significant changes to the 1912 lessons. Then in 1983, Miracle Swimming Institute began teaching 21st Century swimming lessons. Our system, a true paradigm shift in teaching, works for everyone. Comfort and control are taught first. Without this knowledge, learning to swim comfortably and remain at ease in deep water are impossible. You can learn to swim the same way you learned to walk. It can't possibly fail: all your questions are answered and no steps are skipped. The system is gentle, fun, and simple. Heal fear instead of managing it!
Miracle Swimming Institute is the only national swim instruction organization that teaches comfort and control. It's the wave of the future and the imperative of today. It's the way every single swim student becomes successful. And everyone should know how to swim.
One pool we use: a hotel in Orlando, FL
"This is a new paradigm."
Penny Pantano, Owner, Swim-in-Zone, Allentown, PA
If you ever found yourself hurrying across the deep end to get to the other side, afraid to stop in the middle, if you haven't been able to learn to breathe, or if you've tried to learn to swim even though you dislike putting your face in water or haven't learned to float comfortably, steps in your learning have been skipped. You may be glad to know you DO NOT have to do anything you don't like in order to learn to swim. This leads to triumph, at last.
What is swimming?
Yes, it's strokes, but that's not all. It's also comfort in water, confidence, and being in control: the ability to be yourself in water, whether it's shallow or deep, pool, lake, or ocean. It's being able to rely on yourself—not on the bottom or the side of the pool—for your safety. Being able to rely on yourself for your safety means you know how your body and the water work together, and you know how to remain in control. Neither of these skills is related to arms and legs. Neither is taught in traditional swimming lessons. In fact, they're so intangible, most instructors haven't given them any thought.
What's the problem?
Missing out on all the fun is one problem. Drowning is the other problem. The nation's swimming and recreation industries have awakened to the fact that drowning is preventable. Their biggest efforts have gone into providing good fences around pools, better life guarding, and stepped-up lessons for minority children. These are all helpful, but what about teaching each person to be responsible for his or her own safety in deep water? Who's ensuring that everyone masters these skills? Only MSI. This is MSI's global mission. Together we can all end drowning... by 2100.
Forty-six percent of American adults are afraid in water over their heads in pools. Sixty-four percent are afraid in deep, open water. Thirty-nine percent are afraid to put their heads under water. (Gallup Poll, 1998) If they're afraid, they don't understand how the water works. They often can't keep themselves from panicking in unforeseen situations.
What's the answer?
A Breakthrough
In Teaching
That Could
Change
All Teaching
Since 1983
Twenty-seven years ago, as a traditionally trained swimming instructor teaching a college beginning swimming class, M. Ellen Dash asked why the system was not working for 10 of her 20 students. The answer was simple: With their attention on survival, they could not focus on stroke mechanics.
A new system was born: The 5 Circles Teaching Method.
Today, it's clear to everyone involved with our program that the Miracle Swimming Five Circles Teaching Method TM is the missing ventricle from the heart of beginning swimming lessons: Teach students how to be comfortable, feel safe, and remain in control. Teach them how the water works. Swimming comfortably and feeling safe in deep water is the spontaneous, inevitable result. That's Miracle Swimming.
We hope you'll join us and find out what's possible in the world of swimming and adult Beginning lessons.
The printable class schedule with prices can be found here.