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Founder, Melon Dash talks to you about her swimming book here.
A miracle is a collapse of time resulting from use of natural laws. If you've tried to learn to swim and haven't succeeded, it's probably because you tried to learn the crawl stroke instead of learning the basics of being in water first. You must learn to be happy putting your face in, and floating. You must learn how your body and the water work together with ease. Preferably, you'd learn these the easy way. Since you haven't learned them yet, you can be certain Miracle Swimming concepts were not used. Our teaching is new since 1983. Our 4000 students and 27 MSI-trained instructors worldwide agree: this is the way all swimming should be taught. We urge you to test our method rigorously. Our satisfaction rate in classes is 100%. Buy the answers below for less than the cost of your next swimming lesson.
DVD
The Miracle Swimmer/ Learn to Be in Control in Water, Shallow and Deep: Prevent Panic is available in VHS, DVD, and PAL formats. You can't learn to swim while you're afraid in water: you have to overcome fear first. The video/DVD shows adult beginners overcoming their concerns about being in the water: the same concerns you have. It shows the questions they had, the steps they took, and how it works to overcome fear in a gentle, fun, guaranteed-to-be-successful way. $39.95 The video/DVD can be bundled with the book for savings: $38 + $22, plus save on shipping/handling.
BOOK
Conquer Your Fear of Water: An Innovative Self-Discovery Course in Swimming, by Melon Dash, unlike any other swimming book, breaks down the overcoming of fear into its smallest components. They make sense. You can't find this information elsewhere, we've been told over and over. It gives you all the steps needed to make yourself comfortable in the water, learn how it works, and win new confidence: all the confidence you wish you had. It's available in both paperback and e-book formats. We believe it will become a classic. $22. The book can be bundled with the DVD for savings. $22 + $38, and save on s/h.
CLASSES
A Snap Shot of Swimming Lessons...
For a century, adults have taken formal beginning swimming lessons: 20th Century lessons that were developed in 1912 by the man whose program became the Red Cross's. These lessons teach strokes, but not all students are ready for strokes. These students say: "I can't focus on proper technique. What if I drown? What if I sink? What if I panic? I want to feel safe." Learning strokes does not give you comfort or control in water.
Until 1983, no one made a significant change to the 1912 lessons. Then in 1983, Miracle Swimming Institute began teaching 21st Century swimming lessons. Comfort and control are taught before swimming mechanics. This is the wave of the future. You'll learn to swim the same way you learned to walk. It cannot possibly fail if you use the system. The system is gentle, fun, and simple.
No national swim instruction organization besides Miracle Swimming Institute teaches comfort or control. There's a way that every single swim student can be successful: Miracle Swimming. Every person should know how to swim.
"Just want you to know how much your book gave me confidence to get back in the water again. Slowly, step by step, I spent last summer learning how to enjoy the water. Your reassuring words gave me the patience I needed and the acceptance that whatever stage I was at was ok, as long as I was having fun. And it was fun. By the end of the summer I was doing things I never thought I'd be able to do. And now, though the warm weather's over, I'll probably get myself to the pool a few times just to make sure I'm not dreaming--that I actually could go into the deep end of the pool and, most importantly, choose to do it because I enjoyed it! Thanks so much."
—Phyllis Tashlik, NYC
"I want you to know that your book and DVD have been a totally "transform-ational" experience for me. I am a swimming/ aquatic fitness instructor who has dealt with the water fear of many personal training clients and class participants.
I have really enjoyed the gentle and refreshing approach that you share in your philosophy."
—Jane Bosse
"Truly amazing. Brilliant."
—Several readers
Our swimming book is 300 pages of step-by-tiny-step learning, including 200 photographs and diagrams. The book enhances and fleshes out (yet does not require) MSI's video or DVD, 47 minutes, "The Miracle Swimmer: How to Overcome Fear and Discomfort in Water, Shallow and Deep." © M.Dash 2000.
M. Ellen Dash's classes have been featured on NBC's Today Show, MSNBC, CNN's Headline News, NPR, New York Times Play magazine, in the San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, Real Simple, Elle, Aquatics International magazine, Recreation Management magazine, Athletic Business magazine (cover story), Tampa Tribune, Cincinnati Business Courier, Albany Times Union, Minneapolis Star Tribune, All You magazine, KGO's Joanie Greggains Health and Fitness Radio Show, San Francisco, Open Exchange magazine, Associated Press, and Channel 22 News, Springfield, MA, and numerous other newspapers, radio, and television programs.