What Makes Swim With Gale
The Right Choice For You?
We teach every student to respect and appreciate the water while helping them to find their own strength within it. At Swim With Gale, we work with infants, children, teens, and adults, giving them a positive experience while learning life-saving skills. Let us help your family become stronger, safe and happier in the water!
~ A well-seasoned instructor with over 3 decades of experience teaching every kind of learner and identifying the unique combination of the needs of each student!
~ An instructor that simultaneously teaches water safety and water skills!
~ A safe and clean environment to learn in at your own pace!
~ An instructor with a remarkable ability to connect with students!
~ A learning environment tailored with the perfect balance of kindness, compassion, firmness, and fun!
~ A teacher that encourages students to do their best and never to give up! Gale's 35+ years of experience and sensitivity never asks a student for more than they are capable of! Gale understands that kids are kids, and that no day is the same.
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Swim With Gale's unique intake evaluation identifies the swimmer's strengths and needs to maximize partnership throughout the learning process. This process is ongoing and changes as the swimmer progresses. True learning requires mental and emotional participation to ensure an understanding and mastery.
Swim With Gale connects with each individual student to ensure their participation and progress, encouraging continual engagement for success. Gale has a unique ability to coach and train all skill levels, and to offer step by step instruction for gaining water confidence and swimming skills.
~ Swim With Gale combines learning the skills required to swim with the safety techniques necessary to float/breathe/rest. Learning these necessary faculties simultaneously, creates muscle memories in the student's body that ensures that the student stays calmer and more relaxed when swimming. This develops the foundation needed for the evolution of a safe and mindful swimmer.
~ Swim With Gale has authored a rhythmical pattern of instruction. This unique technique ensures that students achieve the ability to breathe while gaining mental confidence in their own capacity to control their access to air while in water. The water is a potentially dangerous environment that demands mindfulness and cooperation. Our students learn to understand their body in the water environment and how to operate in it in order to become a safe and successful swimmer.
Take A Peek At The Swim With Gale Experience
Swim With Gale works with every student at their individual incoming skill level. Water is a unique modality. Learning to swim starts with respect for the water environment, its power, and the student's limitations. Gale’s initial goal is to help the student understand this environment and its rules and then work with them to grow their own ability to maintain personal control within it. Ultimately, the student will learn how to be safe while building their own psychological and physical strength.
~ Gale holds a master's degree in Kinesiology with 35+ years of experience and a treasure trove of approaches for every learner.
~ Gale meets each swimmer at their level and need, developing a unique comprehensive and fluid approach that combines proficiency skills, safety protocols, and psychological support.
~ Gale works with every swimmer at their own pace, accompanied by encouragement to move forward. Her customized instruction ensures that every swimmer gain confidence and competency in the water. Moreover, they build muscle memory and calm mindfulness of “what to do”, “how to do it” and perform the necessary skill, either in a calm situation or in case of an emergency.
~ Everyone learns at their own pace. Everyone's progress is personal to their own strengths and the effort they put in.
Swim With Gale's has extensive experience with all types of students:
~ While it's easy to teach a happy interested learner, Gale is just as comfortable teaching students who are wary of the water, uncomfortable with their body in the water environment, and even afraid.
~ Gale is also comfortable teaching students that experience physical and developmental challenges.
~ Gale has worked with every kind of learner. Her 35+ years of aquatic teaching experience has given her both practical and personal knowledge, aptitude, and the ability to comfortably create both an intuitive and pedagogical approach for every kind of learner.
Our Certifications & Experience Will Give You Peace Of Mind
Gale has been teaching swim lessons for 40+ years. You read that correctly! She’s mostly seen it all and helped many students learn to swim.