Families Upon Thames May-June 2012

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How Karen Springboard Swimmers Duane learned Lessons for babies, children, teens & adults in Twickenham, Teddington to swim…

and Hampton. Karen Duane used to Summer holiday courses be a non-swimmer who was terrified of water. No more than 3 Naturally, she wanted her daughters to learn children per group to swim for their own 020 8255 7455 safety. Unhappy with the instruction her girls www.springboardswimmers.com were receiving, Karen questioned what the instructors were trying to achieve and, a teacher herself, concluded they didn’t understand the scheme they were attempting to teach. She felt there had to be a different way to learn. So in 2003, she and her husband bought a very small swimming school! They researched programmes from around the world and worked with an international swim coach to find a new way of teaching children to swim. They located swimming instructors that loved swimming and enjoyed teaching children. They taught the instructors how to teach, whilst the instructors taught them about swimming! They experimented with combinations of group size, teaching methods, lesson plans and objectives for each ability group. Karen’s company now teaches over 1,000 children each week, 99% from personal recommendations. Karen’s proudest achievement is the number of pupils who have overcome phobias of the water to become good swimmers. This includes her eldest daughter, who became a swimming instructor herself, and latterly, Karen herself, who started adult lessons three terms ago and is now swimming lengths of the pool!

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May- June 2012

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