Introducing a long-term colleague and friend and Swimming Coach, Mr Damien Bryan. Kingston Royals SC, is a community-based swimming club in Southwest London which went from strength to strength over two years under Damien’s leadership. Kingston Royals were named Best Sports Club in 2015 by Kingston Borough Council. Squad swimmers were winning medals on the …

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‘Watching a child makes it obvious that the development of his mind comes about through his movements.’ Dr Maria Montessori, Italian educator and physician In October 2015, I attended a conference in London on Child Development in Education run by the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology (INPP). INPP has been researching the effects of immaturity in …

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Swimming is a sport that depends upon developing a base level and gaining skills over time. Most people think that, in swimming, you start with teaching and then move onto coaching. However, the reality is that you never stop teaching swimming, since you always have to show swimmers how it’s done correctly when you teach …

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Benefits of Swimming for Young Children; Parental Guide (Part 2) In part one, we listed many benefits of swimming with your young children. As a parent you may think, are there any more reasons that I need to know for taking my child to swimming lessons? Science behind importance of Toddler Swimming In a major …

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Benefits of baby & Toddler Swimming Classes Joggling schools runs and busy academic schedules are the biggest challenges for most families in big cities like London.  If they are not enough, every year, in addition to school and nursery, most parents choose and add other extra-curriculum activities, like swimming, to their kids’ already busy timetables. …

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Summer Holiday Demands For Children Swimming Armbands Summer holidays are normally planned earlier in the year, as soon as the new year holiday is finished, most families in the U.K start thinking and planning their summer holidays somewhere close to water. Popular summer holiday destinations often are locations close to a river, a lake, sea, …

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Health Benefits of Swimming It is common knowledge that swimming is a great form of exercise. When you swim, your whole body is involved in the exercise, in other words, swimming uses the major muscle groups in the human body; from head and neck to legs and feet. For this reason, swimming is such a …

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Swimming Classes for Toddlers and Under 3’s Early swimming lessons for children can benefit them greatly. Swimming and water activities have a positive effect on children’s learning and their physical and psychological development. Shortly after we started operating in Feb 2010, we were repeatedly asked if we could provide swimming lessons for children under 3 …

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Learning the Fundamentals with ‘Push & Glide’ Swimming requires a set of skills which can only be built over time by different practices.  A swimmer who swims with correct technique can travel in water with his/her body as close as possible to the surface of water. Swimmers need to do variety of drills and practices to learn …

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A group of scientific researchers in  Australia have shown that participation in swimming lessons benefits the overall health and well-being of children. The results of a study at Griffith University in Queensland has revealed that children who learn how to swim at a young age have physical, social, intellectual and language development advantages compared to …

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