Core Courses Overview

This course is exactly like our Beginning Course except that it goes more slowly and we don’t plan to enter deep water. Spend more time learning to let the water support you in water where you can place your hands on the bottom. Time is spent in standard depths, as well. Learn with your swimming people! 24-hour course The online course also moves through the pool skills more slowly. Give yourself the time you need.

Start at the beginning with essentials you won’t find elsewhere. Overcoming fear of water is not about the water. WHAT, you say? Find out! 100% of our online students are overcoming their fear in a Zoom class that involves no water at all! In the Zoom class and in the pool, we cover the shallow water skills you need. “It is not scary,” our students tell us. In person, begin to learn how to be at ease in the deep, too, by beginning to rely on yourself for your safety, not the bottom or the side. 24-hour course. In this time of Covid19, we’ve altered the way we teach in order to observe social distance guidelines. We anticipate that people will learn more quickly. We follow our system to the T, as always. The online course takes you to a new understanding of how to become confident in yourself in the water. The progress you make in overcoming fear is a chunk of understanding you must have and which you’d make in the In-person class. If you can’t travel to a course, you’re still able to make significant progress.

The goal of the in-person course is to finish what you began in the Beginning course: mastering shallow water and becoming calm in water over your head. When you’ve mastered this course, you can rest and play in deep water without getting tired for 10 or 15 minutes. You’ll be able to say, “I can swim.” 24-hour course. The online course takes you to a new understanding of how to accomplish freedom in the deep end. The progress you make is a stepping stone to taking the In-person class so that if you can’t travel to a course, you’re still able to make significant progress.

Prerequisites: Beginning or Ultra Beginning course. You can float and unfloat, roll over, and do reversals in shallow water peacefully.

Become proficient in the deep end! Learn to use the water and your body to pick up the keys you dropped in the deep, find a nose clip, play games, swim along the bottom, do tricks. This solidifies your confidence to say, “I can swim.” 15 hours.

Prerequisites: you can rest and bob and swim around the deep end peacefully for at least 5 minutes away from the wall. Next Step course is recommended.

This class takes place at the beach. Learn how to enter the ocean by navigating waves and breakers. Learn how your pool skills transfer to the ocean and how to take care of yourself in beach water conditions, rip currents, critters, and salt water. 12 hours

Prerequisites: you must be a Beginning or Ultra-Beginning class graduate and able to float, unfloat, do reversals, and roll over peacefully.

In this course, we start by jumping into a deep pool. We end up jumping off a boat out in the open waters of the beautiful Gulf of Mexico! 9-10 hours