Aquatic Times Swim Academy-About ATSA

     Aquatic Times Swim Academy

     Email: at@aquatictimes.com
     Mail:   420 North Civic Drive #502                  Walnut Creek, CA 94596
     Phone: 925-381-7730

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HOW WE TEACH

We start by:
~Getting to know each other and gaining our students' trust and comfortability in us and our instruction
~Teaching our students to trust the water, and taking the "scare" out of it and putting the FUN into it!
~Helping our students learn to trust themselves and feel comfortable in the water

We teach in a specific progression, while also tailoring to each student's unique learning style, which gives them successes each step of the way - getting comfortable in the water, floating, blowing air out and breathing, streamlining, body position, kicking, etc. Then, we move onto learning general freestyle, backstroke kick and backstroke. From there, we teach the most efficient way to swim them, enabling our students to use less energy and effort. If students continue with from that point, we teach freestyle and backstroke more technically and move onto underwater work and turns. THE SKY'S THE LIMIT! They can go on to learn breaststroke and butterfly, as well, if desired.

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IMPORTANCE OF WARM WATER

"WARM WATER" is essential when learning how to swim, as swimmers need a comfortable swimming environment. If the swimmer is cold, they won't be focusing on what they need to do. And, having "FUN" is also essential to the success of the swimmer. If these two elements are present, swimmers will look forward to their lessons and/or practices. The pool temperature is kept in the warm mid 80's at all the pools we use for lessons and clinics. We find this highly advantageous to our students compared to the high 78-81 degrees found at most public pools.