	Swimming Nature is the leading independent provider of swimming tuition and coaching in the UK. Founded in 1992 by a former competitive swimmer, Swimming Nature has to-date, successfully trained more than 150,000 swimmers and currently has over 7500 students attending classes each week.

Our unique teaching method and approach is based on the fundamental principle that learning how to swim effortlessly is essential. The Swimming Nature teaching programmes provides a natural way to learn and improve swimming ability and technique.

Swimming is an essential skill that provides you with life-long confidence in the water whilst also allowing you to enjoy one of the most popular leisure activities today!

For safety reasons alone, everyone needs to be a proficient swimmer. Gardens with pools, ponds and hot tubs, holiday resorts, beaches, leisure centres and water sports are all potential hazards for the non-swimmer.

Learning with Swimming Nature is fun and provides you with peace of mind for life. Swimming also boosts your overall fitness levels and improves your body movement and coordination.

At Swimming Nature we can help you become a great swimmer. Why not book one of our Free trial lessons and see for yourself!

The Natural Way to Learn to Swim or Improve Technique

The teaching methodology and programme has been designed to help children identify with their natural swimming abilities. Swimming Nature offers a natural way to learn and we start with a focus on building confidence in the water. Only when this has been achieved do we move on to learning how to float.

Our teaching approach for the recognized swimming strokes is based on university research in biomechanics and stroke technique.

Personalised In-Water Coaching

Our in-water instructors ensure safety and work on building confidence at all times. Swimming Nature tuition is only available in small classes with students partnered with others at the same level.

We only offer tuition and coaching one-to-one, in pairs or in small groups.

Motivational Awards Scheme for Children’s Programmes

Our fun themed programmes together with achievement books, badges, stickers and certificates all help to motivate and accelerate a child’s progress towards their swimming goals.

Pool-side handheld computers are used to record achievements and lap times during lessons. Students can monitor their progress on our website.

The sequence of activities and exercises has been carefully formulated to improve co-ordination, rhythm, stamina and swimming style.

Strokes are broken down into their respective movements and are practiced until students are able to combine all the different elements to perform the stroke correctly. This approach produces confident, natural and graceful swimmers, with improved fitness levels, posture, breathing and muscle tone.

Learning to swim the Swimming Nature way:


Full adaptation to the water ensuring students are aware of the importance of relaxation and controlled breathing without floatation aids;	Personalised tuition and coaching one-to-one, in pairs or small groups of matched ability students;	Interactive and supportive teaching style;


In-water instructors help students understand how correct body movement generates effortless swimming;	Stroke development is focused initially on technique rather than distance;	Strokes are broken down and practiced in isolation until they can be performed as one fluid movement.

Our instructors are fully qualified and hold a recognised swimming teacher's certificate or international equivalent. They all hold a current life guarding qualification and have an Enhanced Disclosure with the Criminal Records Bureau. All have undergone training in the Swimming Nature teaching method with one of our Master Trainers.

Additionally, many of our Instructors have a degree in Physical Education or Sports Science and have come from a competitive background. They are swimmers of the highest standard, swimming nationally and internationally, winning medals and setting records!

Swimming Nature Instructors have a broad range of swimming experience. What unites them is their natural affinity with students and a love of the water.

We regularly provide mandatory lectures and seminars for our Instructors. These are often hosted by professors and senior sports lecturers and ensure that our instructors are up-to-date on the very latest thinking and techniques associated with swimming and teaching.

Swimming Nature^TM is pioneering the use of technology in the world of sport with the launch of their innovative system that tracks a student's progress and makes the use of the internet become an interactive, educational and motivational tool.

How it works?

Using mobile technology, instructors assess students after their class, keeping track of progress of their development and any awards they have achieved, including best personal times.

The data is downloaded onto a secure server and available to students and parents when they log onto the website at:
http://www.swimmingnature.co.uk/.

Furthermore, apart from being able to view the individuals' achievements of the day you will also be able to "stretch" the learning process even further by watching clips of swimmers performing the drills and sequences taught in the pool.

For example - If a student is learning the lateral breath module on our programme and has been able to perform that at the pool they will be able to pick up via the internet data on their class and see which awards they have achieved. The student will be able to log their development and watch videos with drills and tips on lateral breath and read articles specifically on that topic.

What are the benefits of this technology?

Students will clearly benefit from the systems mentioned above. But there are many more benefits as described below:

• Students will have a consistent record of their development. The seamless record will not be disrupted in the event that an Instructor is leaving or the student moving house and attending another location. Every student will have a unique record.

• Data will be "nameless" and compiled for research purposes enabling Swimming Nature to further develop its programme and to introduce any findings to the team of Instructors in our Network.

• Swimming Nature^TM will be able to provide clients with results of their individual performance or a set of results in the case of a group or school class - enabling us to answer factually and scientifically the question, "How long does it take to learn to swim?"

• Swimming Nature^TM will be able to highlight potential athletes. Individual times will be accurately recorded by Instructors (where age/level appropriate), highlighting students with potential at Club, County or National level!

• We believe that assessing students at the end of each lesson will enable our Instructors to have accurate data on each pupil and will speed up their development as they achieve awards and can move through the swimming programme without waiting for an end of term assessment.

• The enhanced technology will ensure that every Instructor has the student's unique profile together with the Educational Programme on the poolside. All Instructors are expected to follow the programme as trained.

• Students will be constantly challenged and motivated through the use of the web.

• There are many more operational advantages that students and partners will notice along the way.

At Swimming Nature, we are continually searching for individuals that can further enhance our team. We are always on the look out for outgoing professionals that are great with people of all ages.

If you are passionate about swimming and would like to explore potential career opportunities at Swimming Nature, please send your current CV to business@swimmingnature.co.uk, indicating which of the following areas you are most interested in:

	On-Site Programme Coordinators
	Swimming Instructors
	Call-centre/telesales operators
	Back-office operations, marketing and administration team